Half a Life (PURE122S)

 Seven inch split single released 21st January 2001 on Too Pure

Half a Life, The House That Used to Be a Ship (by Murry the Hump)

Half a Life

Thank you for the streetlights, thank you for the signposts,
Thank you for the taxis that take me home to her,
Thank you for the skin, the smooth warm skin on the backs of her thighs.Thank you for the sunlight that makes my eyes so tired,
Thank you for the sweat that trickles down her neck.
Thank you for for my sweetheart, life without my sweetheart is half a life.It's half a life, It's half a life.
Life without my sweetheart is only half a life

When you were a pauper, when you were a cripple.
Thought you had a tough time, now you've got it good.
Watch her in the morning, watch her in the evening,
For all your life.

One of the earliest songs to be recorded for Dead Media. It was rushed out because they wanted us to do a split single with Murry The Hump their new signing. Actually no, that's not how it was, the split single was my idea! Anyway we were glad to do it. Murry the Hump were a great band and for me a little better than the band they turned into, The Keys. Mind you a lot of people say that about the French.

Too Pure seemed to be quite honest about how they thought MTH were the Hefner who would do as they say. They really ran them into the ground over their first album and although its a great record the band sort of imploded.

Half a Life is one of only two songs to feature Jack as a lead vocalist. I like bands where they swapped the singers round and stuff, but we never did enough of it for my liking.

This is a good sounding song, one of our better home recordings and perhaps the start of the idea that we should that we should maybe make a whole album this way. Some people might say that at this point it all starts to go wrong.

(these photos were taken in Paris for a fanzine by Matthius A, contact us if the credit is wrong or you want the pictures removed.)