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Twist And Crawl

by

The English Beat



Album: I Just Can't Stop It      Released: 1980
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Dave Wakeling of The English Beat says of this song: "I filled out the lyrics, but it was actually a friend of David Steele's, the bass player, Peter Greenall, wrote the lyrics to it. We sat and talked a bit once and he showed me the poem. I filled in the song and made it scan a bit more, and I wrote the changes in sort of middle 8 breaks and stuff like that. It was about somebody wanting to be in the Twist And Shout kind of casual '60s confidence, but found that it was more like twist and crawl. Just social discomfort to the point of pitiful pain of always feeling you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. Never getting anywhere with it." (Read Dave's full interview in the Songfacts Interviews. His website is davewakeling.com.)

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