"Yes" is the debut single by McAlmont & Butler, released in May 1995 and later included on their debut album The Sound Of... McAlmont & Butler. It was their first UK hit, written and performed by the duo and peaked at number 8 on the UK singles chart.[1] It remains their most successful single.
Both McAlmont and Butler had departed from their previous bands in acrimonious circumstances shortly before the release - McAlmont from Thieves, Butler from Suede. The lyrics of the song were a thinly-disguised attack on their former colleagues. In 2013 Bernard Butler spoke to NME about the song's genesis:
"It was the first piece of music I wrote after I left Suede. I wrote it as an instrumental. Everything was in place, but it didn't have the voice... Everything I'd done in the past six months had been really dark. I'd come out of a very sad situation and lost a lot of friends, so it was a very liberating song. I met David at the Jazz Café in Camden and said, 'I've got this song, do you want to try it out?' He came back to me two days later and sang the first verse. He had no second verse, so I just said 'Sing the first one again'... I wanted it to be like a great piece of '60s vinyl."[2]
So you wanna know me now How I've been You can't help someone recover After what you did So tell me am I looking better? Have you forgot Whatever it was that you couldn't stand About me about me about me?
Because Yes I do feel better Yes I do I feel alright I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got To offer
You wanna know me now How I've been You can't help someone recover After what you did So tell me am I looking better? Have you forgot Whatever it was that you couldn't stand About me about me about me?
Because Yes I do feel better Yes I do I feel alright I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got to offer Because Yes I do feel better Yes I do I feel alright I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got To offer
On and on and on and on and on and on and has no-one said Stay away, stay away I'm better
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got.
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"Yes" is the debut single by McAlmont & Butler, released in May 1995 and later included on their debut album The Sound Of... McAlmont & Butler. It was their first UK hit, written and performed by the duo and peaked at number 8 on the UK singles chart.[1] It remains their most successful single.
SvarSletBoth McAlmont and Butler had departed from their previous bands in acrimonious circumstances shortly before the release - McAlmont from Thieves, Butler from Suede. The lyrics of the song were a thinly-disguised attack on their former colleagues. In 2013 Bernard Butler spoke to NME about the song's genesis:
"It was the first piece of music I wrote after I left Suede. I wrote it as an instrumental. Everything was in place, but it didn't have the voice... Everything I'd done in the past six months had been really dark. I'd come out of a very sad situation and lost a lot of friends, so it was a very liberating song. I met David at the Jazz Café in Camden and said, 'I've got this song, do you want to try it out?' He came back to me two days later and sang the first verse. He had no second verse, so I just said 'Sing the first one again'... I wanted it to be like a great piece of '60s vinyl."[2]
YES
SvarSletSo you wanna know me now
How I've been
You can't help someone recover
After what you did
So tell me am I looking better?
Have you forgot
Whatever it was that you couldn't stand
About me about me about me?
Because
Yes I do feel better
Yes I do I feel alright
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
To offer
You wanna know me now
How I've been
You can't help someone recover
After what you did
So tell me am I looking better?
Have you forgot
Whatever it was that you couldn't stand
About me about me about me?
Because
Yes I do feel better
Yes I do I feel alright
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got to offer
Because
Yes I do feel better
Yes I do I feel alright
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
To offer
On and on and on and on and on and on and has no-one said
Stay away, stay away I'm better
Ye-ea-ea-ea-yes!
Ye-ea-ea-ea-yes!
Ye-ea-ea-ea-yes!
Ye-ea-ea-ea-yes!
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got
I feel well enough to tell you what you can do with what you got.
YOU er ja-partierne & EU & co., tror jeg
SvarSlet