almost a meme - two songs ten years time ago
i meant to include these for space week but if space is my friend then time is my nemesis!
anyhow - here are the lyrics for two songs written exactly ten years apart...
the first song became something of a mill-stone even after i gave it away...
which is probably why it took 10 years to do a sequel!
this aint poetry - in fact they aint much of anything, they're not even representative of my songwriting (coughs self-consciouslly) but i do enjoy listing things... so these are almost memes...
strange but true, but this at least gives me an excuse for the gross self-indulgence of the post...
oh, right, the excuse - well, i love glam-rock, space and all things interstellar soul (as Bolan once sang), so these songs list some of those elements - and in turn bring to mind all the casual elements of Glam-life and memory...
glitter eyed my sister scowls over the top of a mirrorbelle magazine, waiting impatiently as the tv makes its way through a schedule that includes Invisible Men and colourful (potato eating) robots, Top of the Pops, The David Essex Show or some other variant
and then suddenly she makes her move, leaping all lithe and all over the place as she dances with me in a matching waist coat in front of the telly and takes my picture coz i'm small and crazy bopping with my toy guitar and dressed in a pair of plastic flares, dancing to sparks and suzi quatro and - and -
and childhood's always sunny right?
i remember the stale beer, cigs and dart-board smell of the social club that she'd sneak me into - and everyone dancing with difficulty in the kind of 70s shoes sent to cripple the ankles of a generation... and my first 45rpm Single, held hot in my childish and chubby fingers John I'm Only Dancng by David Bowie singing space space space and in the clammy break between the DJ's records i was sat in the corner with my cherry aid and a clutch of comics, yeah sci-fi weeklies with the kind of flying saucer dino-alien illustrations made to reel my mind, yeah, space space space...
so maybe you would care to share a memory or two of your personal musical yesteryear... and the odd things that bring it back... i've listed some of mine, what are yours i wonder, from where and from when?
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EVERYTHING MUST BE SPACE:
In this day and age
everything must be space
In this day and age
everything must be space
SPACE
In this day and age
everything must be space
In this day and age
everything must be space
SPACE
it's a new age
it's a teen age
it's a space age
SPACE
glow home - bubble gum - x.ray specs
baby pluggin' in to my neural net
i aint ready to make my move yet
but
everything
must
be
space.
nv 99
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GLAM ON:
gimme that old glam
space trash
ziggy with a face flash
checking out the artefacts
rock n roll zone
star ship x9
get me to it on time
dig that velvet goldmine
rock n roll show
and it's all - oh yes it's all
just a deep fix guitar picks
jesus kicks some cool tricks
scrolling down the net-flix
for something that shines
and it's all - yes it's all
tell me where it hurts kid
empty as an old crib
throwing baby with the bath water
every time
takes you to the same place
looking for a lost trace
rock n roll action
in the base of your spine
and it's all - yes it's all
and it's all - yes it's all
and it's all - yes it's all
just rock n roll show
rock n roll show
rock n roll show
i'm a howling wolf go
oooh hoo!
nv 09