HOMEBOY

First released 1997

Homeboy is another song where Tim's technique of using phonetics to mark lyrics stuck, apparently he didn't even know what a Homeboy was at the time.  The track was originally titled Homeboy or Girl and the verses were completely different until Tim took sections of a track called Fishknives and threw the lyrics into the chorus of Homeboy.  Performed live, the track gained an upbeat pulsing intro and was a particular crowd favourite on the Whiplash tour.

WHERE TO GET

Album Version : Whiplash LP (534 354-1), CAS (534 354-4), CD (534 354-2)

Album Version : Whiplash reissue CD (548 788-2)

Live Version (Shepherds Bush 20.4.97) : Waltzing Along CDS2 (JIMDD 18)

Live Version (Shepherds Bush 20.4.97) : Whiplash reissue CD (548 788-2)

LYRICS

You're a late child

You're a love child

It's enough, child

That you're so appealing

You're appealing, you're appealing

To a need that we all have been feeling

You don't fit where you've been put

They're so straight

Straight out of some book

Tried to fake it with the real men

Tried to fill your father's size ten

Alone in this world

You're not a boy or a girl

Don't let them wear you down

What a wonderful ego

You should be so proud

Far out is the life for you

Not just a life, but you must make do

Alone in this world

You're not a boy or a girl

Nothing is certain,

Every things changed

More than just words when it's you who's in pain

You hold the chalice, you hold the plane

Bring them together and see what you've made

Facing the future inside a cocoon

Feel in control when you've been so abused

Alone in this world

You're not a boy or a girl

You're not alone in this world

(Homeboy, boy or a girl)

You're not a boy or a girl

(Homeboy, boy or a girl)

You're not a boy or a girl

(Homeboy, boy or a girl)

You're not a boy or a girl