It’s hard for me to comprehend that I’m now 50 this month and the first cassette I ever owned was the Rise and Fall and then Madness 7. I was around 10 or 11 and listening to them on a small radio cassette recorder with a single speaker in my tiny bedroom. Fast forward 40 years and I’m back in the family home, mam and dad have passed away and I’ve moved back in after a pointless relationship... late on June the 12th I played The Rise and Fall going from 49 to 50.... why? I’m not sure but it was memorable and I was pretty drunk
Trying hard, I thought I'd done my best
All my life, I can't get no rest
Some who've closed the door before
Say I can't carry on no more
I hear them saying
Tomorrow's just another day
I hear them saying
And it gets better every day
I hear them saying
Tomorrow's just another day
Listened long, tried to take it in
All these facts leave me in the swim
It's down & down there is no up
I think that I've run out of luck
I hear them saying
Tomorrow's just another day
I hear the saying
And it gets better every day
I hear them saying
Tomorrow's just another day
Tomorrow's just another, day
Walking now, over covered ground
There is a chance if I move around
I need a moment to reflect
On the friendships I have wrecked
Why is it I (?) don't I always try?
I hear the say
Tomorrow's just another day
I hear them say
And it gets better everyday
I hear them say
Tomorrow's just another day
I hear them say
And it gets better everyday
I heard them say
Tomorrow's just another day
I hear them say
Tomorrow's just another day
Tomorrow's just another
I hear them saying
And it gets better everyday
I hear them saying
Tomorrow's just another day
Behind all that comedy lies a lot of melancholy and superb musical phrases I’ve never heard before! Madness sound will last for ages. With all my respect for the band members, Mike Barson is a fucking genius !