Yr' Head Is A Rock (song)

Name	Yr' Head Is A Rock
Album/single	Shihad
Length	3.53 (album version)
Alternative titles
First live performance
Recorded	June/July 1996
Writer/composer	Shihad
Producer	GGGarth

Additional Information

In the booklet in the album there is a typo in the lyrics for this song, in the seventh line it says 'You,ve got the right idea'.

Song meaning as told by Jon: "Yr' Head Is A Rock is a bit confusing really, some of it is about losing good people to the dream machine, meaning the advertising world - creativity being wasted on selling products which are pretty much meaningless. That's what the song's about pretty much". Rip It Up, Oct. 1996

Lyrics

Worked so hard to get your credentials
So young, so hip, so experimental
But you'll play the game in the end
So young, so hip, so perfectly able
You got a major talent
For making foolish things seem perfectly balanced
You've got the right idea
The world's full of suckers
So won't you come along..

Your head is a rock and it's doing in mine
If there's somebody in there
Just leave me a sign?
No, no, your head is a rock

So young, so hip, so experimental
Worked so hard to get influential
But you play the game
You just the same
And the time keeps on tickin'
You've developed a habit
Fro making foolish things
Seem perfectly balanced
And you don't even know yourself
You're the fool

Behind that perfect smile
The hunger won't subside
The jaws stay open wide
Don't play me, you're not so young, so hip

We shall not cop out

Guitar

Standard Shihad Tuning
Verse
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Chorus
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Solo 1
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Solo 2
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Bridge
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Then Pre Chorus and Chorus.