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In A House On A Hill

by Social Simon

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krazzycat1
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krazzycat1 Wow, what a voice. Lovely collection of songs. Even the not so happy songs have your toes tapping and feeling good. Favorite track: Hey There Sunshine.
NikaH
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NikaH track 5: it feels like a very exciting adventure in spring between six in the morning and early afternoon experienced by School-Girls and Boys that explore the sounds and colours around them. can't really say why, but it makes me smile :) Favorite track: Undone.
Robert Gray
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Robert Gray This was a bit of an impulse purchase, but one that I don't regret. I don't usually go for music that has been "constructed" on a computer rather than performed, but Simon's tunes are great and his lyrics witty and engaging. I enjoyed his vocals too. Occasionally the production becomes a little too bombastic for my tastes but overall an engaging and uplifting listen, Favorite track: We Don’t Cry Like We Used To.
lgriffiths
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lgriffiths So moving, powerful, observant, thought provoking, personal, relatable. Every time you listen, you hear something new. Love the alliteration in Raining From My Eyes [I find my eyes raining at Simon’s lyrics quite often!]
‘…..still chuck a fuck around’… ha. Class! My favourite track is This Is Where I’m Going to Fall…love the range of the vocals on here. I do enjoy singing along to Hey There Sunshine though…..this tune makes me smile. Looking forward to the next album.
Favorite track: This Is Where I’m Going To Fall.
vicsm
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vicsm I find it unbelievable that Simon hasn't released a solo album before now and hope for many more to come...It's. Just. Perfect.
Beautiful songs that just get stuck in your head which you feel compelled to sing along to...I do anyway! Give it a listen & you'll find it hard to resist buying! 💙 Favorite track: Undone.
Dawn
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Dawn With each listen I become slightly more addicted to the debut solo album from Social Simon. Every song crackles with vivid colours and textures, articulate and poetic lyrics and unexpected bursts of sound. “Bring a little love and your favourite records” he sings on The King and I – and this is shaping up to be one of them. From his hilltop house, Social Simon’s snapshots of life have stolen my heart. Favorite track: Hey There Sunshine.
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1.
In a house On a hill In a room We begin Making marks Drawing lines Map these rooms That hold our lives Rainbow curves That children draw Food and handprints Plasterboard There's a dent Wrapped in pain Where we screamed Each other's name Dot to dot Join them all Weave a nest Wall to wall I'm in love In love still In a house That's on a hill
2.
Two Bar Fire 04:04
I don't know where we're going to go Now the roads are closed and we're getting older Take my hands, they need some moisturiser Maybe sanitizer would be better suited Where we're going, got to wash my pants Must be spick and span Face the music dancing Oh my days what a mess you've made No-one’s talking to us like some social outcast I can't blame when you piss the bed It's hard to get ahead in the dating game Brush my teeth, must be nice and clean Iridescent sheen Face the music smiling All these days I find it hard to hide my fighting ways Now and then I feel I'm turning into one of them I'm burning like a two bar fire Draw some lines on a piece of paper Call it distribution, get some families moving Lay your towel, move your little pieces Oh the lives of other are completely useless Why should I be at all surprised Got to laugh or cry Face the music giggling All these days... Every day I read the news I'm searching it for proof Every day I see the signs It's 1985...we're in the same old country Take some time there's no need to hurry Take some time to worry, read the final chapter Coat your arms in some factor 50, yeah the sun is coming Hot as hell is on fire my friend Hot as hell is on fire my friend Oh you've got to come and take my hand Oh come on you've got to come and take my hand All these days...
3.
Oh the birds are flying home I saw them crying on their wings tonight And the leaves are shrivelling in they'll soon capitulate and then they'll die And the skies are bedding in they'll put a lid on things that need to soar Let the breeze undress the trees 'til we've forgotten how they looked before Maybe there's a way to stop this fire from burning out Maybe there's a way to keep some sunlight in our house Oh well nature spoke to me she promised frosty nights and cool blue days And a sky that's crisp and clear and a sun that cuts through morning haze But now we're trudging through the mud and dirt and death and sludge and endless grey I know nature is a liar I don't believe a single word she says Maybe there's a way to stop this fire from burning out Maybe there's a way to keep some sunlight in our house 'til the nights draw out 'til the world rolls round I want you in my house So let's pile up the coal we'll light the stove we'll soon be settling in 'til the birds are coming home and we'll be kicking off our shoes again Maybe there's a way to stop this fire from burning out Maybe there's a way to keep some sunlight in our house 'til the nights draw out 'til the world rolls round I want you in my house
4.
I feel that awful breeze I feel it close to me We’re delicate like daffodils We’re trampled by the April winds Why can’t you feel the pain? Why can’t you see it in All the mourners biting lips Taking tea in tiny sips? This is where I’m going to fall This is where I’m going to fall I’ll take these clocks to town I’ll find a man knows how Stop them all from gaining time Getting faster every night Why can’t you feel the pain? Why can’t you see it in All of us with life unlived The day to day the grey abyss? This is where I’m going to fall This is where I’m going to fall Save yourself now and stand against the wall Oh there’s a time I’ve got to go…now I’ll fill my days with love I’ll fill my hours with us Let the minutes bulge and groan Take the seconds as our own I won’t let this break my bones I won’t let this break my bones At least I know I’ve loved and lost I least I know there is a cost Oh going to take it all away now
5.
Undone 03:40
I've got this feeling no I can't shake it baby It's like a heartache, I think it's chemical maybe I think I'm lonely. I think this world's undone We watched a bird die out on the morning carpet We heard a song sung with some eternal grief And how you crumpled, how you came undone Come on and hold me so I know that we are not alone And on the TV we watch the good ones dying And on the news feed we see the bad ones win It's topsy turvy oh yes this world's undone Come on and hold me so I know that we are not alone Those monsters well cut them down With those red rockets in your eyes Those demons just make them smile You've got time ticking on your side And in the morning how does the black bird call me? And in the evening how does the owl still sing? I know he's lonely I know he feels undone Paint me a rainbow with all your box of colours Paint me a sunrise with iridescent gold So I won't be lonely so I won't feel undone Come on and hold me so I know that we are not alone Those monsters well cut them down With those red rockets in your eyes Those demons just make them smile You've got time ticking on your side
6.
My mind is flitting like a summer fly But it’s not this conversation forcing me to lose my mind Maybe it’s the buzz of this awful coffee sludge That won’t let me now unwind I’m trying hard to write a loving line But atrocities and niceties are melding in my mind I’m searching through the rot of these twitterings and froth For some praise that I can mine We don’t cry like we used to We don’t move like we did We don’t cry like we used to Like we did I’ve lost my clothes and shoes in hotel rooms And I left my faith and youthful rage in vans that I don’t own But I still chuck a fuck around when trying to talk about the how’s Of poetry and power We don’t cry like we used to We don’t move like we did We don’t cry like we used to Like we did And I’ve forgotten how it feels to touch A body that is trembling I’m missing it so much Maybe that’s the way of these late, late summer days When the fruit has turned to mush We don’t cry like we used to We don’t move like we did We don’t cry like we used to Like we did
7.
Meet me by the clock at ten past midnight Meet me by the clock and mind your time And we'll run away Yeah we'll run away I've been taking orders firing crackerjacks He's been passing laws that make no sense Cos the king and I We no longer see eye to eye Bring a little love and your favourite records Bring a little love and your favourite songs Bring a little love and we'll find some place to hide I've been writing songs in bits and pieces You've been working hard as a worker bee Please believe...you and me We'll escape his hypocrisy Pack up all your clothes in cardboard boxes Wrap up all your dreams and hide your pride Cos the king and I We no longer see eye to eye Bring a little love and your favourite records Bring a little love and your favourite songs Bring a little love and we'll find some place to hide Meet me by the clock at ten past midnight Meet me by the clock don't tell them when We'll be back again We will never be back again
8.
We used to keep cash in a porcelain jar Marked with “break in an emergency and head for the bar” We used to say “hey, no easy trick being this beautiful and getting your kicks” What can I say? Something has changed It’s a popcorn romance that won’t be defeated A bowling alley love that’s struck out depleted It’s a teenage crush that’s harsh and it’s cruel It’s the same old story with the same old fools What can I say? Something has changed Where do the young ones go? So here we are in our tired living room And I say bedtime can’t come too soon Here we are already in pyjamas I miss the booze but I don’t miss the dramas And I never tell you that I like you undressed I never tell you that I like you best when you Dance a jive just to keep out the cold Shine so brightly you will never grow old What can I say? Something has changed Where do the young ones go?
9.
Could we be saved by just the colour of the sky? It seems insane that that could do it Cos we’ve been lost under the cover of the clouds Oh we’ve been lost, we can’t see through it And way back home well they are pulling down the blinds The day is done, the bulbs are glowing Hey there sunshine don’t be so unkind Come on now come and make my day I see clearly when you’re falling on me Come on now come and make my day We’re colour blind, we live desaturated lives It’s no surprise that we’ve been fading These rainy days the damp is rising through my veins It’s no surprise that we’ve been fading And way back home well they are pulling down the blinds The day is done, the bulbs are glowing Hey there sunshine don’t be so unkind Come on now come and make my day I see clearly when you’re falling on me Come on now come and make my day And I’m holding on with my trousers rolled And I wear my sandals thin I’m holding on with my trousers rolled ‘til we come back home again I’ll pack my trunks and we’ll go swimming in the pool It seems so cruel to bare a body That’s grey and cold and marked with scars that make me old It feels so cruel to bare a body Way back home well they are pulling down the blinds The day is done, the bulbs are glowing Hey there sunshine don’t be so unkind Come on now come and make my day I see clearly when you’re falling on me Come on now come and make my day
10.
It’s raining from my eyes, it’s thundering in my soul The skin that I own it ain’t going to hold Someday soon the sun’s going to rise Clear my head and I’ll realise But until that day it’s raining from my eyes There’s a man over there who’s creaking, cracked and crazed There’s a man over there who’s creaking, cracked and crazed I’m going to arm myself to the teeth Stock my shelves keep my guns clean Cos until that days it’s raining from my eyes That’s the way it is why should I even care? Going to arm myself to the teeth Stock my shelves keep my guns clean Cos until that day it’s raining from my eyes That’s the way it is why should I even care? I’ve got a love that warms me when I’m cold Oh I’ve got a love that warms me when I’m cold Someday soon it’s all going to die Until then it’s you and it’s I So until that day it’s raining from my eyes

about

In gaps between Hope & Social records and tours, in stolen moments in hotels, cars, vans, planes and dressing rooms and mainly In A House On A Hill, I've made my first full solo record. It’s been a long time coming but here it is.

They’re songs about home, that needed a home. Ideas that had no final destination or wouldn’t leave me alone long enough to forget them. Songs about family and fears, birds and bees, regretting and rationalising. Songs about everything that goes on inside and around the bricks and mortar that we call home.

And if they sound naive or simply executed, well, they’re just that. It’s me, working out how to make music away from the other five people who I always make music with and who actually know how to play their instruments! It’s a record of that working out and the excitement at playing with the methods for the first time. Sketching and rubbing out and sketching again with the tools I had to hand.

I hope you enjoy it and that I get the chance to do it again.

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released April 22, 2021

Mixed by Ed Waring
Mastered by Tom Woodhead at Hippocratic Mastering

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Social Simon Leeds, UK

Singer with Hope & Social. One time singer with Four Day Hombre. Messing around on my own for a bit.

www.socialsimon.co.uk

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