"Alive" genre: New Wave
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	"...it's like the sun shining on me, you beautiful thing..."
	Credits: written by Jeff Jones
	Story Behind the Song I wrote this song after watching the movie, Beautiful Thing. All the Mama Cass songs got to me. The original version of this song is bright and the idea was for it to have an Erasure, "A Little Respect" feel. I experimented with the song shortly after writing it, I did my own mix, changing the chords to minor chords and originally having an electric guitar part in the chorus, trying to go for a ZZ Top meets New Order sound. When I played both versions for Brett and Garenne they took to the darker version. It's a masterful contradiction, the words are happy and light, but the music is dark and has an aggressive potential. I would like to go back and do a new version of this song and really bring out the aggressiveness that dying to come out, and bring back the guitar part. This version was recorded after I ran into Brett and Garenne at the Depeche Mode Exciter tour in Chicago, it had been a long time since we've seen each other and we thought it would be fun to get together again and work on some stuff. We recorded this song during that brief reunion. Lyrics I realize that something about you drives me wild only when you don't let the rain spoil your fun it's more than eyes that can melt my heart in a glance it's your smile that brings me home in this circumstance oooh, how good it is to be alive when i see that beautiful smile and i can't stand the thought of a day that you would go away if i don't seem my normal to you then i am missing something one of those days without you and i feel i could explode another side to everyone though inside i want to scream when you are there it's like the sun shining on me you beautiful thing oooh, how good it is to be alive when i see that beautiful smile and i can't stand the thought of a day that you would go away i'm alive alive i'm alive i'm alive alive so alive

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