Furniture
That Man You Loved (Demo)
Written by Jim Irvin, Tim Whelan
Published by Copyright Control
That man you loved Has been and gone Out of the window with the rest of your time He has perished and blown away Like leaves from the trees on your avenue And it's better that way Surely it's better that way That man you loved Never felt the same I haven't done a single thing That's not legitimate for a fool to do When you loved me What was it like Did you feel it blossom and grow Oh now don't you start Oh now please don't you start That man you loved never felt the same Somewhere along the line You must have got the wrong end of the stick He was just an illusion of yours And he disappeared like visions tend to do That is all that it was Nothing's all that it was That man you loved never felt the same It's better that way Surely it's better that way That man you loved never felt the same He never felt the same
Commentary
Around the time of 'The Wrong People,' and for some time afterward, Furniture spent a lot of time in Grannys studio in the North End Road in Fulham, recording a whole load of demos that have largely been lost. But in what's left you can still get the flavour of what the group might have done if it hadn't ended up in legal limbo for a couple of years after the demise of Stiff Records.
Tim Whelan — Band commentary, 2010 Cherry Red reissue booklet (compiled by Jim, Tim and Hami)