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Enid

"The silence, the terror, the pain, the horror, as your mom comes downstairs."

Chorus:
Enid we never really knew each other anyway
Enid we never really knew each other anyway

It took me a year to believe it was over
And it took me two more to get over the loss.
I took a beating when you wrote me those letters
And every time I remembered the taste of your lipgloss

Chorus

Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway
But Enid we never really knew each other anyway

There were times when I wanted to hurt you,
And there were times when I know that I did.
There were times when I thought I would kill you,
But can you blame me I was only a kid.

Tell me why we never really respected each other
And tell me why I never believed you were a person too
I always thought that you fancied my brother
I may not have liked it, oh but memory is a stranage thing, oh, and Enid?
Enid I remember you.

Chorus

Maybe we always saw right through each other anyway
But Enid we never really knew each other anyway

It took me a year to believe it was over,
And it took me two more to get over the loss.
I took a beating when you wrote me those letters,
And every time you told me to get lost.

Now it's not fair to say that it's 'cause I was three inches shorter then,
And it's not fair to say it's 'cause I was only fifteen years old.
But maybe it's fair to say there was a lack of communication;
I took a phone message, oh and speaking of communication, oh, and Enid?
Enid you caught a cold.

I can get a job, I can pay the phone bills,
I can cut the lawn, cut my hair, cut out my cholesterol,
I can work overtime, I can work in a mine,
I can do it all for you, but I don't want to.

Enid we never really knew each other anyway.


Words and Music by Stephen Page & Ed Robertson

Gordon (Studio Album)

Enid (Single)

Disc 1: All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001)
Original Album (Gordon) Version:
Andy Creeggan: Cuica, piano, vocals.
Jim Creeggan: Double bass, vocals.
Steven Page: Lead vocal, moronic intro synth.
Ed Robertson: Guitars, vocals, bionic intro synth.
Tyler Stewart: Drums.
with
Michael Phillip-Wojewoda: Teutonic intro vocal, tambourine.
Lewis Melville: Pedal steel.
and
The Jimmy Crack Horns:
Nic Gotham: Baritone sax.
Gene Hardy: Tenor sax.
Chris Howells: Trumpet.
Tom Walsh: Trombone.

Background Lyrics:
I can teach you how to dance, how to sing how to knit,
How to make things that you never ever made before.
Enid, I can teach you how to use cookie cutters,
To make crazy things out of Play-Doh.
Little houses, little farms, little accessories for your mom,
For your Barbie set, for your friends and your family.
Enid, I can teach you how to snowmobile, cross-country ski, snowshoe.
But I don't want to!


Pedal steel guitar, a horn section, Latin percussion, three different vocal melodies, all going at the same time. Thank you, Michael Wojewoda for making it all work. This was, after all, our first time in a big studio, and it was exciting making an album that had such wide scope. The intro was programmed by Ed and I, Michael Wojewoda sang it, and then we built a Radio Shack radio transmitter, broadcast the song, recorded ourselves tuning it in, and tacked it on to the beginning of the track. It was like Science Camp. Ah, youthful exuberance!

- Steven Page, 2001.

FMQB Modern Rock Sampler Vol. II/#4 (Live Radio Station Promo) "Modern Rock Live" Version:
This version was performed live by the band on the radio program "Modern Rock Live" on 2nd November 1993. Copies of the disc were issued by "Friday Morning Quarterback" magazine.