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Half Way Up The Stairs

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Started by FNYANKEZ in General Therapy? Topics

Anyone know what that little opening bit Andy sings prior to Unbeliever from the MTV Brixton Academy show?

Half way up the stairs there’s a stair where I sit
There isn’t any other stair quite like it
it’s not at the bottom
it’s not at the top
so this is the step where I always stop

halfway up the stairs
is it up or is it down
it isn’t in the nursury
it isn’t in the town

And all sorts of funny thoughts
go racin’ round my head
it isn’t really anywhere

it’s somewhere else instead.

I did that from memory because ever since I heard it I can’t get it out of my @$#@$@#$ head.

Is it a nursury rhyme..a song lyric?

Posted on Fri, 8 April 2005 at 20:20

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3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:

It’s a poem by AA Milne, the same author who wrote the Winnie the Pooh stories and it goes like this:

Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn’t any
Other stair
Quite like
It.
I’m not at the bottom
I’m not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where
I always
Stop.

Halfway up the stairs
Isn’t up
And isn’t down.
It isn’t in the nursery,
It isn’t in the town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head:
“It isn’t really
Anywhere!
It’s somewhere else
Instead!”

Isaw it once on tv being cited by Robin, Kermit the frog’s nephew: awesome!

Posted on Fri, 8 April 2005 at 21:08

#2

Ronald wrote:

I thought it was a poem by Dylan Thomas…

Posted on Sat, 9 April 2005 at 07:22

#3

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I’m pretty sure it’s AA Milne, from When We Were Very Young…? I seem to remember it.

Posted on Sat, 9 April 2005 at 09:51

#4

allroy (Rainer) wrote:

It’s Halfway Down by Milne from his book When We Were Very Young, indeed.

Posted on Sat, 9 April 2005 at 10:51

#5

loco wrote:

yes, i’ve got that poem stuck inside my head too, I think it fits perfect with unbeliver…

Posted on Sat, 9 April 2005 at 16:56

#6

cocaine boy wrote:

this poem really took something from me apart. if andy did use the lyrics of this poem in unbeliever its affect would have doubled at that time.
especially i liked this passage:
“there isn’t any other stair quite like it
it’s not at the bottom
it’s not at the top
so this is the step where I always stop”

Posted on Sat, 9 April 2005 at 19:51

#7

White Psycho wrote:

Always struck me as something a psycho would say when killing someone.

Posted on Sat, 9 April 2005 at 23:00

#8

FNYANKEZ wrote:

I just downloaded a T? appearance from a 1993 German TV show, and Andy recited it before Turn, so it must have been a bit of a favorite of his and not just a spur of the moment thing.

Posted on Sun, 10 April 2005 at 03:00

#9

Christian wrote:

It was sung by Andy during a lot of the 1994 shows before Unbeliever. A noteable expection was Donington, where Andy performed “I’m singing in the rain”. :)

Posted on Sun, 10 April 2005 at 08:57

#10

fatboy wrote:

I’ve got a bootleg of Andy singing it, and its beatiful to listen too. Anyone interested should seek a copy of it (bootleg, of course) or download it. Its that good.

Posted on Mon, 11 April 2005 at 12:08

#11

fatboy wrote:

Christian wrote:

It was sung by Andy during a lot of the 1994 shows before Unbeliever. A noteable expection was Donington, where Andy performed “I’m singing in the rain”. :)

That’s because it was raining. I remember hearing it when Radio 1 did a live broadcast. They won’t do that now, would they?

Posted on Mon, 11 April 2005 at 12:09

#12

MarkoJii (Evil Twin) wrote:

Obviously Andy likes children songs as in Klubben last wednesday before Knives he sang a tune that goes something like this;

If you’re feelin’ sad and weary and you’re down in the dumps
There’s something you can do
And it’s don’t be grumpy, don’t spoil all the fun
And don’t be grumpy, so for on and on.

Or maybe he’s been singing lullabies to his song via phone and this one got stuck in his mind… :p

Can anyone say what it is?
I tried to Google it but all I found was some news article where bunch of school kids were singing it in some event.

Posted on Mon, 11 April 2005 at 12:18

#13

Christian wrote:

fatboy wrote:

That’s because it was raining. I remember hearing it when Radio 1 did a live broadcast. They won’t do that now, would they?

Of course it rained - why else would he sing it? :P Andy did it also during one of the shows at the Bizarre festival I think.

The substitute/lost highway intro to Trigger Inside which is found on the dead laughing bootleg is also wonderful (that’s however not voice only)

Posted on Mon, 11 April 2005 at 13:23

#14

Jobrok (John O)))) wrote:

I think on some bootlegs, he finishes with ;

“…This is the stairs
where I get fucked up”

Posted on Mon, 11 April 2005 at 13:58

#15

Nitro (Erdem Capar) wrote:

In Istanbul, Turkey, 1997, Andy sang that song and he shouted “Fuck The police!” then they started playing Nowhere…

Posted on Thu, 14 April 2005 at 20:51

#16

Gav wrote:

Yeah - Stings solo stuff is much better :D

Posted on Thu, 14 April 2005 at 20:55

#17

3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:

:D :D :D although I don’t agree with that.

Posted on Thu, 14 April 2005 at 20:57

#18

Gav wrote:

no neither do I - i just saw an opportunity too good to pass up

Posted on Thu, 14 April 2005 at 21:16

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realityfuck (Jar lath) wrote:

3ddo-on-the-balcony wrote:

Isaw it once on tv being cited by Robin, Kermit the frog’s nephew: awesome!

That’s the version I’m most familiar with :D I had it on tape when I was a kid.

Posted on Fri, 15 April 2005 at 03:05

#20

Hatham wrote:

Title: Stairs- Shock Treatment (merged)

Can someone please tell me the name of the song or who wrote the little poem type thing that andy sings on the bootleg ‘shock treatment’ that goes on about stairs? It’s been bugging me and i havent been able to find anything about it.

Posted on Wed, 17 August 2005 at 12:02

#21

soul doubt (an) wrote:

all you ever wanted to know about this song/poem can be found here
http://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk/wallofmouths/showthread.php? … eadid=6954

Posted on Wed, 17 August 2005 at 12:15

#22

Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:

Anyone know where I can get a decent MP3 recording of this? Not sure why its been on my mind just recently.

And any way to turn Sister/Whilst I pursue My Way Unharmed into two tracks without all the silence in between bobbins?

Posted on Mon, 9 May 2011 at 14:11

#23

Gav wrote:

Some cd ripping software does that, strips out the silence…

Posted on Mon, 9 May 2011 at 22:46

#24

MisterHoppy wrote:

Audacity will do it, think it’s still free. You can load the file as a waveform then cut out the bit you want and save it.

Posted on Mon, 9 May 2011 at 23:00

#25

Epitome (Dave) wrote:

MP3 Direct Cut is really good. It lets you edit MP3s directly, with no loss of quality. Presuming it’s MP3s you’re dealing with, that is.

Posted on Tue, 10 May 2011 at 06:48

#26

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

Cool to see that here, I only knew it from the ‘No Love Lost’ Therapy? bootleg I have.

Posted on Tue, 10 May 2011 at 18:43

#27

Christian wrote:

On the new Muppets “The Green Album”, there’s a version sung by Amy Lee of Evanescence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3btmZx1tA

The Robin original is of course also on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPhuafy0G3I&NR=1

Posted on Sat, 27 August 2011 at 14:14

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