Lyrics for Bad Cover Version as interpreted by typo

Bad Cover Version Lyrics
The word's on the street: you've found someone new
If he looks nothing like me, I'm so happy for you
I heard an old girlfriend has turned to the church
She's trying to replace me, but it'll never work

Cos every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been
And every time he kisses you it leaves behind the bitter taste of saccharine
A bad cover version of love is not the real thing
Bikini-clad girl on the front who invited you in
Such great disappointment when you got him home
The original was so good, the one you no longer own

And every touch reminds you of just how sweet it could have been
And every time he kisses you, you get the taste of saccharine
It's not easy to forget me, it's so hard to disconnect
When it's electronically reprocessed to give a more life-like effect

Aah, sing your song
About all the sad imitations that got it so wrong
It's like a later "Tom & Jerry"
when the two of them could talk
like the Stones since the Eighties
like the last days of Southfork
Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV
the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in"
like an own-brand box of cornflakes
he's going to let you down my friend

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kiltman
06-18-2003

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This song has my favourite lyric ever:

I heard an old girlfriend has turned to the church
She's trying to replace me, but it'll never work

It just makes me laugh everytime I hear it.

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dansr
06-22-2003

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haha. anyways, i like this video

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fluffycloud
10-19-2004

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Brilliant way of explaining how impossible it is to feel happy about a new relationship if you're not over someone else...

It's like a later "Tom & Jerry"
when the two of them could talk
like the Stones since the Eighties
like the last days of Southfork
Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV
the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in"
like an own-brand box of cornflakes
he's going to let you down my friend

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ILOVELIFE
12-21-2004

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I dont care what anyone says; I love the album We Love Life more than any Pulp album-check out my user name.

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jacko251
10-06-2005

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does anyone know what the line

"like the last days of Southfork"

refers to?

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albino
10-15-2005

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"The last days of Southfork" refers to the TV show Dallas. Southfork was the ranch the show was shot on.

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GranEle
04-02-2006

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The best part of this song is the saccharine taste. Just brilliant

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Cary Granite
04-23-2006

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I think the video is brilliant. And while I can easily tell that some of the people are impresonators (including Jarvis himself), I honestly can't tell if some of them are the real thing (Elton John, Robbie Williams, Kylie, etc.) Does anyone know for sure?

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michaelwood
06-21-2006

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* It's like a later "Tom & Jerry" when the two of them could talk

The cartoon series started letting them talk and it is generally accepted was never as good after that point (Jumped the shark)

* like the Stones since the Eighties

The Rolling Stone have not put out anything good since the end of the 1980s (or 1960s in many people's opinions)

* like the last days of Southfork

The famously bad end of TVs Dallas where The Devil confronted JR to try to get him to kill himself.


* Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV

As opposed to the movies which are pretty good.

* the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in"

The Scott Walker album which - vinyl fans - had a good first five tracks and a weak second five

* like an own-brand box of cornflakes

Kellogs famously so they never make Cornflakes for anyone else meaning that no other brand of Cornflakes will taste like a Kellogs box.

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ShineYouDiamond
09-06-2006

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It's probably worth mentioning that Scott Walker produced the album that features this song; this is a typical Pulp in-joke.

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thealman
01-14-2007

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yea i had he same thing cary. i was completely baffled until the end when he imitates May. awesome video. really bring another element into the song. pulp is damn creative.

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Conacha
05-25-2007

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thanks michaelwood!!!!

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colacider
11-08-2007

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also thanks for michaelwood, but I still don't understand the kellogs part... If anyone see this, plz plz explain more.....

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Ruffian
02-24-2008

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"A bad cover version of love is not the real thing
Bikini-clad girl on the front who invited you in"

This refers to the budget-priced compilation albums released on Britain's Hallmark record label in the late sixties and early seventies, which featured extremely bad cover versions of current chart hits.

These albums were titled "Top of the Pops" (not to be confused with the BBC television show) and usually featured pretty bikini-garbed girls on the cover. One of the strangest of these LPs I have seen had a gorgeous bikini-wearing twentysomething girl on the front cover and a hairy, ugly thirtysomething man on the rear cover. The man had a dog leash around his neck and was clad only in underpants. I am not making this up, that's the 1970s for you.

All of the cover versions on these albums were by anonymous session musicians rather than named acts Famously, one of these anons was a young singer and pianist named Reginald Dwight, nowadays better known as Elton John.

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Ruffian
02-24-2008

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"Like an own brand box of Corn Flakes" - many supermarkets have their own low-priced version of Corn Flakes, but the point is that they never taste the same as Kelloggs Corn Flakes, which are universally regarded as the real thing. Similarly with Coca Cola - other "colas" just aren't the same.

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