Name: Good Boy Jacob
Duration: P00H03M50S
Description: Cupboard love confuses need for food with attachment to a parent. In the scene here, a mother and son visit a traditional English cafe and the mother indulges her son with all the food he wants. Both are clinging to the other emotionally, turning inward instead of facing the world.

Good Boy Jacob

from Not Marked on the Ordnance Map - 17 song album by PO!

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The themes on Not Marked on the Ordnance Map include family breakdown and things falling apart. There's only one love song ... and it's for a horse. The songs don't sound sad; the guitars jangle, there's old-fashioned beaty drums, Ruth warbles, and only if you listen carefully can you tell if a song is about feeling awkward amongst posh boys, moral dilemmas or fantasy murder. The album - written entirely by a female songwriter and produced by amateurs on a shoestring - has its flaws but it is intriguing, charming and very English.

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Cupboard love confuses need for food with attachment to a parent. In the scene here, a mother and son visit a traditional English cafe and the mother indulges her son with all the food he wants. Both are clinging to the other emotionally, turning inward instead of facing the world.

lyrics

She squeezed his hand till the flesh melts into one
Beams upon her podgy only son
Jacob always does as his mother says.
He insists on eating Eccles cake
While waiting for egg and chips
Mother smokes, purses lips
Glances nervously:

“Please don’t leave me.
I’d die if you went away tomorrow;
I feel you’re a part of me”

He-s not a lad for roaming with a gang
Or baiting girls with troubled eyes
Jacob only wants to eat
And mother will provide:
The café’s closing,
“That millionaire shortbread looks so fine;
I’ll eat it as quickly as I can.”

“Good boy Jacob, don’t ever leave.”

credits

from Not Marked on the Ordnance Map - 17 song album, track released January 29, 1996
song written by Ruth Miller
Recorded and mixed at White House Studio, Syston, Leicester 1995
Drums - Paul Knight
Guitars, Bass - Terri Lowe
Singing, Guitar, organ - Ruth Miller
Backing Vocals - Penny Holmes

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PO! Leicester, UK

Ruth Po! set up her own record company and writes incisive songs from an ordinary female perspective. Themes are often dark yet the tunes are singable, jangly and very English-sounding.First formed in 1987 with punk roots and an indie-pop style, PO! is not a typical band. After a Peel session and an NME single of the week, Ruth gave it all up 1999-2016 but the band are back with new songs! ... more

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