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FourPlay song list

FourPlay are a dynamic band and are constantly adding music to their repertoire. Some tracks also fall by the wayside, so here's a little list of what we're currently playing, thereabouts — including a whole lot that have been recorded and will appear on our next album (and single/EP before that), and one or two that improvs that may or may not become fully-fledged pieces.
Note: Three of the songs have links to take you to their lyrics, lower down the page.

    Originals:
  • Corrosion — Peter Hollo/Chris Emerson [4:48]
  • Languid, Yet... — Peter Hollo [5:31]
  • August — Lara Goodridge [4:12]
  • Meshugganah — Peter Hollo [4:05]
  • Lilli Pilli Drive — FourPlay [5:02]
  • Gypsy Scream — Veren Grigorov [3:33]
  • Evolve or Decay - Lara Goodridge [4:48]
  • Downtown Nudnik — Peter Hollo [4:33]
  • You've Changed Your Tune — FourPlay [4:26]
  • TrustLara Goodridge [3:48]
  • Now To The Future — FourPlay [6:10]
  • Bollyrock — FourPlay [8:22]
  • The HunterLara Goodridge [4:57]
  • Appalachian Relation — FourPlay [?:??]
  • Appalachian Jam — FourPlay [8:27]
  • Everything Was Going Fine — Peter Hollo [3:14]
  • A Grain of Truth — FourPlay [6:00]
  • Where The Sun Don't Shine — FourPlay [4:25]
  • Rudd-a-dub-dub — FourPlay [6:50]
  • Venice Underwater — FourPlay [4:40]
  • Requiem For a Democracy — Shenton Gregory [4:10]
  • But A Girl — Lara Goodridge [3:55]

  • ...and covers:
  • Theme from Dr Who — Ron Grainer, realised by Delia Derbyshire [2:56]
  • Grace — Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas [5:02]
  • My Baby Just Cares for Me — Nina Simone [3:13]
  • The 2 of Us — Suede [5:38]
  • Enter Sandman — Metallica [3:51]
  • Theme from The Simpsons — Danny Elfman [1:11]
  • Sabotage — The Beastie Boys [2:38]
  • The Sweetest Perfection — Depeche Mode [4:51]
  • Domino — The Clouds [3:30]
  • Just Like U Said It Would B — Sinéad O'Connor [4:09]
  • The Boy From Ipanema — Antonio Carlos Jobim [4:21]
  • On The Road Again — Willie Nelson [1:49]
  • Cut Up — Ned's Atomic Dustbin [3:09]
  • Femme Fatale — The Velvet Underground, this version incorporating part of the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré [4:39]
  • You Can Put Your Shoes Under My Bed — Paul Kelly [3:27]
  • 2+2=5 — Radiohead [3:38]
  • Reptilia — Julian Casablancas/The Strokes [3:29]
  • All Blues — Miles Davis [4:23]
  • Cry Me A River — Arthur Hamilton [4:36]
  • Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (aka Theme for Lester Young) — Charles Mingus [4:40]
  • Drunken Hearted Man Blues — Robert Johnson [3:31]
  • Read About It — Midnight Oil [3:50]
  • The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us! — Sufjan Stevens [5:24]
  • Seekers Who Are Lovers — Cocteau Twins [4:44]
  • Killing In The Name Of — Rage Against The Machine [4:47]
  • Loverman — Billie Holiday (Jimmy Davis/Ram Ramirez/James Sherman) [3:24]
  • Famous Blue Raincoat — Leonard Cohen [4:33]

FourPlay lyrics

Note: The copyright in these songs is owned by the songwriters, and no unauthorised copying or distribution is permitted.

Evolve or Decay (words and music by Lara Goodridge)


I hold no judgement in my heart
But I’m not safe in your arms
And my days of playing hard have passed
But oh how I’d like to know what it is to let myself go with you

But I can’t hurt anymore
I won’t be burnt anymore flying too close to the sun
No I can’t hurt anymore
I won’t be burnt anymore

But we’ve waited for this moment so long
Do we head for the eye of the storm
Can it all be so wrong?

But I can’t hurt anymore
I won’t be burnt anymore flying too close to the sun
No I can’t hurt anymore
I won’t be burnt

Flying so high and aiming so low
I’m flying too high, there’s only one way to go

Evolve or decay

Tell me the name of this forsaken game
‘Cos I lose every turn
I’m learning

Evolve or decay

Trust (words and music by Lara Goodridge)


One wrong step is all I take to this mistake
And now I won’t trust this unruly heart
No I won’t trust this unruly heart

And I’ve said too much
I might be losing touch
And now I won’t trust this unruly heart
No I won’t trust this unruly heart
I won’t

And it’s one false move and you’re dead

Oh false idol I’m on my knees
Misguided fool
For some sweet release
And chance the door to set me free

The Hunter (words and music by Lara Goodridge)


I’ve seen a picture of me and you
And all that I don’t know, feels like I do

Now I am the seeker
I frighten my game
But pity not the hunted
For poor is my aim

And gone is my camouflage
My band to hide behind
And I played where I shouldn’t have played
And I played out of time

Now you are the keeper
And how shall I fare?
As I lay beneath her
Now run if I dare

And gone is my camouflage
My band to hide behind
And I played where I shouldn’t have played
And I played out of time

And now you the players
Handsome and rare
Come find the secrets that I long to share

And I know this jungle
Where the sun can’t get in
And I may know where it ends
But where do I begin?

That's one smart pussy!