Farmers Market (song)

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Credits

  • Writers: Pulp
  • Lyrics: Jarvis Cocker
  • String arrangements: Rich Jones and Emma Smith
  • Vocal arrangements: Laura Moody
  • Producer: James Ford
  • Engineer and mixer: Animesh Raval
  • Mastering Engineer: Matt Colton
  • Studio musicians
    • Jarvis Cocker - vocals
    • Candida Doyle - Farfisa
    • Mark Webber - guitar
    • Nick Banks - drums
    • Emma Smith - violin
    • Andrew Mckinney - bass
    • Jason Buckle - electronics
    • Richard Jones - piano
    • The Elysian Collective (Rich Jones, Emma Smith, Phil Granell, Jennymay Logan, Jordan Bergmans, Paloma Deike, Rosie Tompsett, Zami Jalil, Charlotte Stock, Sam Becker, Shelley Britton, Laura Moody, Sergio De Serra, David Kadumukasa, Freya Goldmark, Flora Curzon, Patrick Dawkins, Mandhira de Saram, Ros Stephen, Val Welbanks and Chihiro Ono) - strings
    • Emma Smith, Jennymay Logan, Flora Curzon, Zami Jalil, Charlotte Stock, Shelley Britton, Laura Moody, David Kadumukasa, Adem Ilhan, Mara Carlyle, Leo Chadburn, Matthew Kerr - choir

Lyrics

That was a good year, the one when we still believed
Despite all evidence pointing to the contrary
I had nothing
I had nothing to base this love upon
Nothing but a feeling way down at the base of my spine
It's got nothing at all to do with my mind
No
Just a feeling
Just a feeling

Now I stalk the labyrinth of my own myth
Searching for clues with this fading glo-stick
But I've found nothing
No, I've found nothing to base my life upon
Nothing but this feeling way down at the base of my spine
It's got nothing at all to do with my mind
No

There was no coat-check, so we wore our dreams out on the dance floor
We danced so hard, got so hot, that they fused to us all
We thought that we were just joking, trying dreams on for size
We never realised we'd be stuck with them for the rest of our natural lives

Summoned from the dark
Under the most extraordinary circumstances
That's when I saw you, Babe
In the car park of the Farmers Market
Backlit by the sunset, or maybe the fires marking the end of the world

I stammered some pleasantries as I walked back to the car
But then I thought:
"Hold on! Are these groceries really that important?
More important than getting your number?
And finding out who you actually are?"

And you made it easy on me, Babe:
You smiled
And I could see that life had got to you too
But it was nothing serious:
Just a flesh wound
Still working on the dream

And I said: "Hey, Babe
Ain't it time we started living?"

Ain't it time we started living?
Ain't it time we started living?
Ain't it time we started living?

In a car park?
But then the future broke through and I knew that I was right

Ain't it time we started feeling?
Ain't it time we started feeling?
Ain't it time we started feeling?

Notes

Setlisted but ultimately not played at King's Theatre, Brooklyn on 13th September 2024, the song made its live debut a few days later at the Hollywood Palladium on 18th September 2024. It was played again at Zepp Osaka Bayside in Japan on 6th January 2025.

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