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Smiles and Guns - EP

by Sinking Ships 1980

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1.
I Start 02:27
I Start I heard a sound a call from somewhere, I turned. But no one there, I had some words I read. But someone I knew – they never said who. So now you see, so now you see. I caught a look, a call from somewhere I turned. But nothing there but someone touched me. It sent me sideways, had me reeling. And I reached out and I held you without feeling. I held you without feeling. And I start to fall, I go ‘round and ‘round. And I start to fall, I never hit the ground. And I start to fall – I just start that’s all. And I start. I just start. Lyrics by Colin Hopkirk © 1979.
2.
Weight Loss 02:40
Weight Loss Tipping the scales at 12.5 Can’t you see, enough is enough, is enough – it’s too much. But you’ll listen to no one and you’ll, eat your way out of this jam. Out of this jam. Argh! Regards the chosen few as idols. But ignores the social call. The social call. That’s all. Reads about life from books and quotes. Names and places he’s never been. He’s never seen. In his life. Another weight loss. Another weight loss. Another weight loss. Lyrics by Terry Welbourn © 1979.
3.
Third World 02:07
Third World Third world coming closer. Fighting, uniting, getting nearer. And their vision, getting clearer. Getting nearer, coming closer. In the third world. In the third world. In the third world. Third world, call them backward? Learning, looking over your shoulder. Moving forward, taking over. Moving forward, coming closer. Lyrics by Colin Hopkirk © 1979.
4.
A Sinking Ship Stopping for breath, he surveys the scene. But word-for-word, picture-for-picture it’s all the same. But will it ever change? Next time, he won’t pause for air. Next time, he’ll just pass us by. Believing is seeing and I’m seeing it all. Each pause for breath in his conversation. Reveals yet another side to him. Another breakdown, in, conversation. Another breakdown, in, his concentration. Lyrics by Terry Welbourn © 1979.
5.
Smiles and Guns There’s not much light. There is no sound. But your Breathing. Steady breathing. It’s dark in there. Your movement slows. You feel your way. Repeat yourself. Repeat! Like smiles and guns, you feel your way. repeat, repeat yourself, repeat yourself. As you sink. You won’t notice. To graves without waves. It’s a slow process. Lyrics by Colin Hopkirk © 1979.

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Third World & Weight Loss

Simon Brighton: Guitars, Nick Green: Drums, Colin Hopkirk: Vocals & Terry Welbourn: Bass

Recorded 15-16 March 1980 at 'Studio Playground' Wragby, Lincolnshire.

Produced by Sinking Ships & engineered by Andy Dransfield & Rick Woolgar.

Third World & Weight Loss were released as tracks on Stark Products compilation, blue-vinyl LP ‘Household Shocks’, Summer 1980. STARK LPCO1. (re-released on black vinyl Dark Entries Records: DE-114, 2016). Sinking Ships appeared alongside; Product of Reason, Thunderboys, One Gang Logic, Juveniles, Mystery Girls, Defectors, Fault 151 & Urbantech.

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New Music News : ".....Elsewhere, Lincoln's Sinking Ships' ‘Weight Loss’ debuts a fine punk-ska band who owe much to drummer Terry Welbourn" - Nigel Burnham (NB. This of course should have read; drummer Nick Green!)

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Sinking Ships 1980 Lincoln, UK

Terry Welbourn and Simon Brighton formed Sinking Ships in 1979 with Colin Hopkirk and Nick Green. In 1980, the band recorded: I Start, Smiles and Guns, A Sinking Ship, Third World and Weight Loss. After Colin left they recorded, The Cinema Clock and Strangers, released as a single in the autumn of 1980. Tracey Horseman, Steve Orient and Charlie Anderson then joined for the single Dream in 1981. ... more

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