Kiss This Thing Goodbye - Del Amitri

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Kiss This Thing Goodbye Lyrics

It seems like weeks since you looked at me baby
Without that look of distaste
I don't know why your feelings are changing
But I've seen it in your face

All those times when our lips were kissing
Our tongues were telling lies
And all those signs I've been missing
Were right there in your eyes

So come on babe
Let's kiss this thing goodbye
Let's kiss this thing goodbye

I sometimes feel when we're together baby
Everything has turned out wrong
And I know you feel exactly the same way
But still we carry on

And I've been waiting up by the window
Watching these cars go by
And I tell myself that I'll go through the motions
For the last time tonight

So come on babe
Let's kiss this thing goodbye
Let's kiss this thing goodbye

Now I'm watching the fumes foul up the sunrise
I'm watching the light fade away
And I'm hoping tonight that I'll open the door
And you'll stand here and say

Come on babe
Let's kiss this thing
Come on babe
Let's kiss this thing goodbye

Better make it sooner than later
Before it all turns sour
Don't you know we'd better
Kiss this thing goodbye

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Del Amitri are a guitar-driven pop rock band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1980, internationally known for the 1995 melodic rock hit "Roll to Me". They came together at school as teenagers when Justin Currie (bass and vocals), James Scobbie (guitar and vocals) and Donald Bentley (guitar) formed a band in reaction against the rest of the 'rockers' in the school. The name was chosen deliberately because it didn't mean anything but sounded a bit like someone's name. Early Del Amitri did not want to be classified and their existence was kept secret from the rest of the school.

Early rehearsals in Justin's parents house were followed by a move to secret rehearsal space behind some storage cartons in the basement of Glasgow Art Centre (now defunct). Later on the band secured official rehearsal space at the Art Centre in a proper room with a cupboard to keep their gear in. Postcard Record signing and future megastars Aztec Camera rehearsed in the room next door. At this time Paul Tyagi (drums) joined the band as its first drummer. The first recorded Del Amitri track "What she Calls it" was the B side of a flexi-disc given away free with Stand and Deliver fanzine - the A side was given to another future Glasgow megaband The Bluebells. Unable to read music, early Del tracks were arranged and remembered according to 'bits' named after musical influences that included from Genesis, Captain Beefheart and Orange Juice.

Guitarists Bentley and Scobbie left in 1982 for university and the band faced a brief uncertain future until Justin Currie placed an advert in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him, and the new line-up was formed with Currie (bass and vocals), Iain Harvie (lead guitar), Bryan Tolland (guitar) and Paul Tyagi (drums). The first non-flexi 45 single was 'Crows in the Wheatfield' with cover design by artist Laura Michael. Tyagi left after the release of the first album three years later becoming a successful photographer. Currie and Harvie were the only members of the band to remain present throughout its history – they were also the main songwriters of the group.

Jon McLoughlin (recorded and toured with the band during 'Some Other Suckers Parade') passed away in March 2005 from complications of Diabetes. He was 42. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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