Casual Conversations

Album: Breakfast In America (1979)
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  • It doesn't matter what I say
    You never listen anyway
    Just don't know
    What you're looking for

    Imagination's all I have
    But even then, you say it's bad
    Just can't see
    Why we disagree

    Casual conversations, how they bore me
    Yeah, they go on and on, endlessly
    No matter what I say
    You ignore me anyway
    I might as well talk in my sleep
    I could weep

    You try to make me feel so small
    Until there's nothing left at all
    Why go on?
    Just hoping that we'll get along

    There's no communication left between us
    But is it me or you who is to blame?
    There's nothing I can do
    Yes, you're fading out of view
    Don't know if I feel joy or pain
    It's such a shame

    And now it seems it's all been said
    If you must leave, then go ahead
    Should feel sad
    But I really believe that I'm glad
    I really believe that I'm glad
    I really believe that I'm glad Writer/s: RICHARD DAVIES, ROGER HODGSON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 1

  • Bruno Yh from Lima, PeruNice song but is really out of place in Breakfast in America, because, like Rick Davies said it's deeply personal (it's him saying to Roger Hodgson: "get out of my group!"). All the other songs in the album are so bombastic but this song is very simple.

    Paradoxically, the song would have worked better on their next album, Famous Last Words, because it feels like Supertramp tried to simplify their sound on that album to adapt to the changing times. While it's the weakest track on Breakfast in America, I like it much more than the first two songs on the 1982 album, which sound like demos.
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