Mother, Brother, Lover

Selected Lyrics

Jarvis Cocker

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571281923
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Rock Music

Jarvis Cocker is widely regarded as one of the most original and memorable lyricists and performers of the last three decades. Here, for the first time, is a selection of sixty-six lyrics, presented with commentary and an introduction by the man himself.

In this volume, readers (and Pulp fans) will find such classic Jarvis lyrics as 'Common People', 'Disco 2000', 'Babies', 'This is Hardcore' and 'Do You Remember the First Time?' The selection, assembled by the author, reveals a sensibility that is unmistakeably Jarvis: a sometimes visceral, sometimes everyday take on love, relationships and the things we do to each other when the lights get low.

Mother, Brother, Lover takes the reader on a thirty-year tour into the life, art and preoccupations of one of the great British artists of the late twentieth century. Shocking, sharp, clever and funny, it is a beautiful collection of lyrics and commentary.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• My Lighthouse
• Little Girl (with Blue Eyes)
• 97 Lovers
• My Legendary Girlfriend
• Countdown
• Space
• Babies
• Sheffield: Sex City
• Razzmatazz
• Inside Susan: A Story in Three Songs
• The Babysitter
• Lipgloss
• Street Lites
• Do You Remember the First Time?
• Deep-Fried in Kelvin
• Joyriders
• Acrylic Afternoons
• David’s Last Summer
• His ’n’ Hers
• Common People
• Sorted for E’s & Wizz
• Mis-Shapes
• I Spy
• F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E.
• Disco 2000
• Something Changed
• Live Bed Show
• Bar Italia
• Mile End
• Catcliffe Shakedown
• P.T.A. (Parent Teacher Association)
• Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis
• Cocaine Socialism
• Glory Days
• Help the Aged
• This Is Hardcore
• The Professional
• Laughing Boy
• The Fear
• Dishes
• Party Hard
• TV Movie
• A Little Soul
• Modern Marriage
• First Man in Space
• Stars on Sunday
• The Quiet Revolution
• The Trees
• Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)
• Wickerman
• Bad Cover Version
• The Last Day of the Miners’ Strike
• B-Real
• Mary
• Sliding Through Life on Charm 
• The Operation
• Set Yourself on Fire
• Cunts Are Still Running the World
• Disney Time
• Big Julie
• I Will Kill Again
• Fat Children
• The Loss Adjuster
• Fuckingsong
• I Never Said I Was Deep
• Leftovers
• Hold Still
• You’re in My Eyes (Discosong)
• Notes
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright listing
• About the Author
• Copyright