Tim: “You know when you’ve met that very special one but it’s just too soon in your life?” asks Nick. Well do you, Tom?
Tom: I’m a cynic with a phobia of commitment, Tim, so I’m going to go with “no”.
Tim: Ah. Well in that case, you’re probably not in a prime position to appreciate this song.
Tim: I love you, but I don’t want to do anything right now. So hang on, let me “run wild for a while and suck the very most [I] can out of life,” he says, just for a few years and then I’ll come back to you. When, presumably, I’m all done with life. So just wait there, cheers. Yep, right there. Don’t move.
Tom: You know where I’ve heard that before? The Beautiful South’s A Little Time.
Tim: Oh yes, there was that. Some would say that’s quite a big ask, but apparently not Nick (or, as you say, The Beautiful South), who presumably thinks he’s worth hanging around for. And, well, I can’t find any pictures to judge him on that basis but he can at least put a half decent dance tune together, so there’s that.
Tom: It’s certainly at least half decent, although I wouldn’t go too much further.
Tim: Yeah – I’m fairly sure it’s at that level. It seems to go quite quickly, which I suppose could be a negative in a whole “washes over you” kind of way, but it also doesn’t leave me wanting it to hurry up and end like some tracks.
Tom: It’s only three minutes, but even at that length it seems to go on a bit long. The best bit is the build to the chorus — the chorus itself is a bit repetitive, and if I’m honest, the middle-eight feels like a bit of a letdown.
Tim: Yes – I suppose overall we could say “oh, it’s fine.” Just a bit of a dickhead basis to the lyrics, really.