Accident

Cast

• Michelle Newell
• Daniel Hill
• Doremy Vernon
• Jane Collins
• Patricia Garwood
• Davyd Harries
• John Judd
• Patrick Jordan
• Caroline Holdaway
• Geoffrey Hinsliff
• Bernard Kay
• Martin Neil
• Sheila Dunn
• David Beames
• Marc Zuber
• Robert Blythe
• David Sadgrove
• Peter Geddis
• Peter Quince
• Michael O'Hagan
• Eric Mason
• Gwyneth Powell
• Lesley Clare O'Neill
• Kara Noble
• Bill Rourke

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Departure Point
  UK:2 November 1978...
• Episode 2: Take Your Partner
  UK:9 November 1978...
• Episode 3: The Figures Man
  UK:16 November 1978...
• Episode 4: Jack in the Middle
  UK:23 November 1978...
• Episode 5: Terri
  UK:30 November 1978...
• Episode 6: Victims
  UK:7 December 1978...
• Episode 7: Purple One
  UK:14 December 1978...
• Episode 8: Ends and Ways
  UK:18 January 1979...

• Accident - Lisa Loeb
• Accident - Rachael Yamagata
• Accident - Channel 3
• Accident - Pensive
• Accident - Arco
• Accident - Lonnie Brooks

The heir is introduced
She waltzes through her ballroom
Swirling in her sequins, showing off her gown
She steps on her own train
She falls, she cracks her jaw
Aghast her husband giggles
He gasps
She slipped on spilled champaigne
Chorus:
And we crowd around the accident
We want to see the worst
We crowd around the accident
We want to see what hurts
They're leaning in the corner
He's buried in a baggie
They say he's mischevious sometimes
She's pretty, and her elbows are so pointy
They're dangerous talking in the locker room
His nose bleeds so profusely
But no one tell him he's the star
They watch like at the movies that he's famous for
CHORUS
Two stories about to fall
Boasting at the swing set, marching down the hall
She yelled, 'cause he upset her desk
Don't yell
He's picking sides, he's hitching rides to school
His father left in winter
He's no one's son
If I can poke her with a pencil, I can pop her with a gun
CHORUS
We think...
I'm glad it wasn't me
And turn up the TV
And squeeze our eyes shut, but leave a space to see

I think he's in a jealous rage
She's probably not the easiest one to live with either
There's nothing worse than bitterness just splashed across the page
I don't think that either one of them are fit to be alive
Oh, She'd just shut up and do what she does best
Show a little bit of skin but keep it all when she's undressed
And doesn't she know that she is doing it all wrong
You can't tell a joke, yeah while I'm listening to your song
And all of this talking and all of this chatter is making me sick
Even though they say it doesn't matter
Let's put them in a room or maybe they should stay apart
Or maybe words are meant a mile, yeah let's fuck with their hearts
There's no reason to change
So let's watch everybody bleed
'Cause everybody loves an accident
And everybody loves what they read
I think he's gonna be a big star
A voice of social change to rearrange the worlds perspective
But there's nothing better than watching him go down
He could pick up a habit or get in trouble that might be affective
Oh, if he'd just shut off his conscience for one day
And take a cue from all of us and give us a song we can really play
Doesn't he know he's going down and going down fast
If he keeps on being difficult, he'll always come in last
All of this talking and all of this chatter is making me sick
Even though they say it doesn't matter
Let's take away the stars and give while enough a add-on
He's calling for backup but I'm strong enough to take that phone
No man here needs to change
So let's go all have a beer
'Cause everybody loves an accident
And everybody loves what they hear
Two sides working together
And working against one another
Two bad souls are destroyed
It's the nature of business
You know how this part is
Oh look, they're losing all of their trust
Oh look, they're trying to bite the helping hand that feeds them
We put clothes on their backs and they took the money up front
Now they don't like what we're saying so let's up and leave them
We would have done what they are doing anyway
So this shit about taking in the souls and life's lasting misery
We're gonna take them down and do it on the front page
Gonna watch those little crooks come crawling back on bended knee
All of this talking and all of this chatter is making me sick
Even though they say it doesn't matter
I'm becoming a bore, now I am wasting ashore
Now I'm still broken but the subjects been spoken
'Cause nobody here really wants to change
But it sure is fun to advertise a fight
We're feeding off each other once again
But now neither one of us will give an inch until I break
I hope, I hope, I really hope, hope

I saw you outside; why'd you have to follow me?
You wanted free ride; I just pretended not to see
There was a light rain; I didn't think it was that cruel
I didn't stop then; it's only two blocks to the school
Steel wrapped around the pole
Hot blood streams on cold cement
Burnt flesh in the air
Don't blame me for this accident
I felt a sharp flash from the corner of my eye
I turned my head then I had the feeling something died
Steel wrapped around the pole
Hot blood streams on cold cement
Burnt flesh in the air
Don't blame me for this accident
I would've know then; death was so near that day
I would've stopped then; perhaps it's too late to say
I could've loved you; I sat by you in history
This life is so short; now you're just a memory
Steel wrapped around the pole
Hot blood streams on cold cement
Burnt flesh in the air
Don't blame me for this accident

It was late we couldn't see
The road spun around me
We ran off the side
It's no surprise that we both died.
The news caught the whole scene
My face is bloody and unclean
My parents didn't know I died
I didn't get to say goodbye.
One accident changed everything
This accident destroyed me
Nothing more for me to be
No future in front of me
The wild ride was just a lie
It's no surprise that we both died.
One accident changed everything
This accident destroyed me
One accident changed everything

won't be long before i'm old and i'd like
to think that i was in control of my life
but i can't make it change, can't break
the pattern
i'm waiting for an accident to happen
you're so beautiful i just have to laugh
you've got everything a girl could ever have
but how to tell you that i can't imagine
i'm waiting for an accident to happen
tried so hard to find a voice inside me
but nothing's like the ones i heard inspire me
all the words i thought i'd find i haven't

Accident, just an accident
Accidentally fell in love with you
I live a bachelors life
I never thought of getting a wife
Until I met this girl
That treat me so nice
I chose the one I need
I met the one who had the key
And unlocked my bachelors privacy
Accident, just an accident
Accidentally fell in love with you
I thought that I was smart
And showed everything I got
And finally discovered
Loving do not cover
Insurance on my car
Insurance on my home
When it comes to love
You're on your own
Accident, just an accident
Accidentally fell in love with you
Had a small collision
Because I didn't see the sign
You'd never know what happened
In this highway to love of mine
I met a lot of pretty women
I met a lot of pretty girl
And every one I met
Tried to change my world
Accident, just an accident
Accidentally fell in love with you
Accident, just an accident
Accidentally fell in love with you
You so doggone fine
I can't keep you off my mind
I should have known
That was a collision sign
Too many accidents
I saw you everywhere I went
Falling in love
Just could not be prevent
Accident, just an accident
Accidentally fell in love with you
Accident, just an accident