Re-unmelt My Heart

the only tool in my box that i have left is a hammer and everyone i come across starts to look like a nail and i end up on the cross jesus you should see the view of the things i've lost but i keep on finding my heart works fine it pumps my blood does all the things a good heart should just doesn't deal with love the only friend that i have left still resents me leaving meanwhile i'm repossessed and she's saving snails and i revel in the mess the chaos makes me want things more or less all depending my heart works fine it pumps my blood does all the things a good heart should just doesn't deal with love should i let it lose on love should i set it free? re-unmelt my heart

The term "re-unmelt" originates from the Team Frankie tour special Wagon Wheel that remains uneaten in the glove compartment of the Frankmobile. As the seasons change year after year, it melts, unmelts ,re-melts and then re-unmelts. It is the metaphorical heart of all things Machine. Gary & Julian feature on guitars

The Self-Made Man

i'm a self-made man it was all my fault i admit and i carry the can cos i'm still drinking from it i'm the doctor's doctor i've got letters after my name no it's not the end of the world but the symptoms feel the same and i might be lying down not necessarily dying why would i cross out the words that need underlining? i'm the walking wounded spent my life in stitches why read the words when you can look at the pictures? i was way too caring and where did it get me? if you're not selfish then someone else will be i might be lying down not necessarily dying why would i cross out your name when it needs underlining?

Where do Doctors go when they are ill? Do they self-diagnose and be done with it? Do they write their own prescriptions? What if they are too sick to think straight? Is there a special Doctor that only treats other Doctors? Best not to think out loud about this when drunk. Gary & Julian feature on guitars again

Why Are You #2

the smell of cheap tobacco burning is all it takes and i am back there in the dark with my mistakes lying to me lying with me peeling back the skin she dragged me down and blew me out in rings why are you laughing? why are you smiling? why are you breathing? these things are all wrong she was smoking west because they came in 25's something got stuck in between us every time there were blood stains on the pillow that were tear-drops in disguise she was planning her escape like i should sympathise why are you laughing? why are you smiling? why are you breathing? these things are all wrong

Technically this is Why Are You #3, as it s the third Frankie Machine song to use the same title, but the joke works better this way. The original #2 was recorded during the Cartesian Product sessions and was VERY trumpet heavy. The chorus remains the same in this new version but trumpet is replaced with probably the best porn star over-acting EVER

Take Up With A Mermaid

i love the sea, i love the taste and i love the smell of mermaids. this was recorded originally for the first album but never got finished cos I was too busy worshipping at the altar of Daryl Hannah in Splash

Not Even If You Mean It

i'm an alarmist and i'm ringing i've been alerted someone's waking up the dead i'm part-wreckage and you're clinging something tells me that you're trying to tell me something don't ever say you're sorry not even if you mean it cos honesty's a weakness don't let it come between us when there is too much between us already and hardly enough to go round i'm a completist and i've finished there's nothing left that i can take that you won't give i'm exceptional you promised something tells me that you're trying to tell me something don't ever say you're sorry not even if you mean it cos honesty's a weakness don't let it come between us when there is too much between us already and hardly enough to go round

Sometimes called "The Lie-dream of the Derby Music Soul Scene" this is like my National Anthem, in that it has about a hundred verses but I only ever sing the first couple. Some people have a lot to apologise for

Funny Looking Clever

all i want is a girl who is as funny and as clever as she is ugly so we'll never get bored and we'll never stop laughing and she won't ever want to leave me

Exactly one minute long because it was especially recorded for John Jervis' one-minute songs compilation. The original version had a 10 minute euphonium solo which had to be cut for the good of humanity. Instead it now sounds like a train of song going through a tunnel of love after 35 seconds

Black Eyes #3

give me some words that i can use to break the ice or destroy the mood i need to be talking to you like he's talking between the wall and the cigarette machine there are two scorch marks next to a pile of debris that looks a lot like me do you long for a fire so bright it can light up your black eyes at night well i know where that fire ought to be it ought to be inside of me don't make me feel like broken glass because i've shattered so much in the past it's all crystal clear you're looking right through me sometimes i watch you watching me while i sing us both back to sleep and i dream of your black eyes i dream of your black eyes do you long for a fire so bright it can light up your black eyes at night well i know where that fire ought to be it ought to be inside of me

This is actually the third version of the song Black Eyes and therefore is accurately titled. The events within took place at the Social in Nottingham and are heavily romanticized via poetic license. For instance I neglect to mention the fact that she had on boys clothes and looked like she cut her own hair. Also that my vision was clouded by more than just cigarette smoke

Japanese Sigh

and if it's ok with you i want to do it for attention it doesn't make it less true i'm only adding to the tension and if it's ok with you i want to do it for the guessing and at my final interview i want adventure worth confessing

More puerile dick jokes if you can be bothered to think about it enough. Believe it or not this is supposed to have been influenced by Japanese folk music but listening back it's almost impossible to tell. In fact it was a 100% failure and hardly worth confessing

KmC

inspired by a deep but unrewarding, cheap yet expensive love affair this instrumental vaguely features Steve on the Korg Preset, used principally to cover up my mistakes, on the guitar i should add. it takes more than vintage synthesiser to cover up my mistakes in life

Empty 00:00

it means a lot to me if i can last for five minutes since you tried to make it last all of my life and i thought that it was going to be the start of things for you and me but everything was tied up so tight you were in and out in one night i woke up empty after midnight i was spent and beaten but still upright there's stronger men than me that can't keep you in smiles and finally i can admit that to myself nothing you can say to me will revise our history there's a foot print in the sand one of these he'll understand i woke up empty after midnight i was spent and beaten but still upright

While I was recording this, Joanne and her brother kept ringing me from some emo gig in London making me listen to it down the phone. Parts of the conversation remained on the master tracks. I think you can hear the phrase "wow he's got an acoustic guitar!" Other than that it's a pretty standard 7/4 power ballad.

Why don't you want me Frankie?

Can you tell me Why? Don't You Want me? Frankie!

Someone did actually say this to me in all seriousness once.

The Three Doctors

there's something i ought to tell you i'm not really a doctor i forged all my certificates i can't be trusted so put your clothes back on and we'll say no more about it but you know what it's like when you want something so badly you'll do anything this is not my fault and i will move on and take somebody with me there's something i have to own up to that's not really me in the photograph it's a picture of my brother my younger more handsome brother he's married to his receptionist and god they are so happy but you know what it's like when you want something so badly you'll do anything this is not my fault and i will move on and take somebody with me there's something you should be aware of i didn't write those words i stole them from an architect who knows exactly where to put things and i would do my best to move heaven and earth for you but you know what it's like when you want something so badly you'll do anything this is not my fault and i will move on and take somebody with me

Doctor #1: Dr. Hovis pays tribute to Architecture & Morality-era OMD. Doctor #2: Dr. Frankie cleans up the trail of destruction he left behind him. Doctor #3: Dr. Francois goes from Le Palais to La Plage. A walk often taken. Joanne features on vocals and Steve adds some lovely piano and Korg Preset Synth