A Mighty Wind: Playlist Addition

[joeallonby]

Reads like Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Well, I guess if you're gonna borrow something.......

Your link to strongcomet didn't come through. I'll hunt it down though.

Thanks,
Joe


on 4/13/03 12:44 PM, s~Z at keithsz at concentric.net wrote:

> Sounds better than it reads but this tune by the great Robert Wyatt is a
> good playlist addition for wind and death and other folksy topics:
> 
> Blues In Bob Minor (Wyatt)
> 
> Roger's in the archive looking up casement
> Martha's in the government digging up the basement
> Rebel into representative for the voter
> Shadow backhencher couldn't get a word in
> Turned up anyway ... issues burning
> All consuming ... drinks in the cabinet
> Spent a lot of time just examining the building
> drinks on the house? you must be joking
> Corridors of power cuts toy telephone bills
> Long time no see underneath the floorboard
> Looking for the roots of the family treetops
> Toe's in the water but you've only got ten.
> 
> Fingers in the eel pie poke around tip top
> Tunnelling a wormhole Eartha Kitty catfish
> Meadow brown peacock ... pupa-larva-caterpillar
> Hibernate in winter of our discotheque no
> End in sight .. more like a spiral ... coil
> Or curler ... just unwinding ... very slowly
> Revealing endless disappearing pipelines
> Genuflecting ... bowing deeply ... it
> Don't take a weathergirl to see where
> The wind is blowing ... what the wind is bending
> 
> Isobars are opening ... sex to midnight
> Cabinet shuffling homeward bound ... taking
> A detour ... rendezvous do ... chapel in the valley
> Of the blown up doll ... that's not Martha
> Shunting in a siding ... she got homework
> Up to here
> Roger's in the footnotes up to his elbones
> Verse and chapter disinterred
> Borrowing a bookcase don't come easy
> The weight of the evidence in parenthesis
> Beggars tightly furled belief
> 
> Heads on blockabeater repetition on the line
> Shell shock supertroopers ... whirl banking oil palm
> Intercontinental drift ... over the rainbow
> Over the sea to ska rocker skintone
> hirsuit missed a link and that's not all
> That he got missing inna thousand years of
> Orthotoxic waste disposal ... god proposal
> Jealous sky ... whatever is a girl to do
> To break the service in its tried and tested
> And found wanting state of oh! boy network
> Stewardship?
> 
> Little Johnny Aardvark never hurt
> Nobody ... Martha friend and Roger too
> Tone down a little ... sotto voce ... some tall order
> Given that four minutes seems eternity time
> In the bushed up world of waspish Vsigns
> A-sides sui-C-side salads of the bad young B-sides
> What's the point of digging deeper just to lay
> The ghost of Sala Hal-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub?
> 
> "Don't give up" the dead man cried
> "There's more of us than there of you
> Soon you'll all be on our side ... forever more or
> Lester Young died ... 'Fat Girl' also ... blowing all the blues
> Away side ... dust ain't just dust ... trust us like we
> Live forever ... broken loose from greystone tether
> Keep on tiptoe through the archive ... we are dead
> But you are alive ... Martha yes and Roger too
> Until you let the gringos grind you down"
> 
> www.strongcomet.com/wyatt/lyrics/lyrics2.htm#Blues
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