Lyrics

[Spoken: Steven Wilson] "I'm gonna, uhh, with - Where's his help? I'm gonna try to play a song now Which is pretty new, and it's a really hard want to play It's a case of me making a rod for my own back I wrote this in Tel Aviv, recorded this in the studio Took about 50 attempts to get it right Edited it all together to make it sound like it was one take Ya'know, the unsual And uh, I'm gonna name drop now: When I knew that we were gonna be comin' out to play some of these songs live for the first time, I called up my buddy Robert Fripp" [Crowd Applause] "I said, 'Robert, can you give me some tips for practicing? I've written this part and it's really hard' And uhh, you know, 'cuz he's like really down with that whole discipline-thing and brags something- He gave me some, uhh, tips This was like a week before the tour, before the rehearsal just over the - He gave me some tips and I said 'That's really great, Robert' And then right at the end of the conversation he said: 'And you need to allow about 3 months before you're fluent...' So... this is after one week, okay? And uhh, it's a song on the new EP that we didn't play yesterday ...It's fucking hard ("You can do it!") If I fuck it up, I'm gonna stop and I'm gonna keep playing it until I get it right because..." [Crowd Applause] "And then, and then, uhh, and then when you here the, uhh, final recording Miraculously..." [Crowd Laughter] "Let's see how we... " [Intro] "That's not good enough, let's do it again That's not good enough!" [Intro Restarts] [Steven Wilson & John Wesley] Wish I was old and a little sentimental Wish I was old and a little sentimental Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle You gotta see the waves... Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves. not the wine bottle It's the waves now Wish I was old and a little sentimental You gotta see the waves... Sentimental... [Crowd Applause]