26 Sep 2011
Chesil Beach is far away in time
Although (as with most of the album), there won’t be too much dispute over the lyrics of Fix It So She Dreams Of Me, it will be one of the songs which will prove the most puzzling in terms of meaning, so it seemed appropriate to get the lyrics posted early. Please feel free to put forward any theories! Thanks to William, Jason, Nortbert D and Owen
See lyrics to Fix It So She Dreams Of Me
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Ceri
Is Fix It So She Dreams Of Me a Trad. Arr Tune? Sounds a lot like one to me, but that might just be because it’s rather good.
Sep 25th, 2011
Petrovic
Ceri, I was wondering whether it was someone else’s tune…
Also just noticed in it:
“I know that Chesil Beach
Is far away in time”.
Sep 25th, 2011
Norbert D
I think it’s an original, but the chord sequence has been used on countless folk songs, etc. It’s pretty easy to come up with a nice tune to those chords, because certain melody lines just suggest themselves naturally. It really is a lovely song though, isn’t it? I’m still trying to work out exactly what’s going on in the last lines, the bit about the androids. It’s quite hard to follow, but there’s obviously something going on there.
Sep 25th, 2011
Strumski
Am not 100% sure on the end of the song but I take the androids to be robots (rather than them fancy phone things) and that ‘these androids empathise, understand and realise, so its really no surprise i’ve got one that rolls its eyes, at the Gok Wan acolytes’. Would suggest to me that even those not human would be tired of Gok Wan and his followers. I remember NB saying some lines about Gok Wan at an Edinburgh gig once but stuffed if I can remember what.
Obviously I may be totally wrong, wouldnt be the first time, but hopefully my take on this is at least in the right direction.
Sep 25th, 2011
Norbert D
I was thinking (about the androids) that he had to turn to the robot world to find a companion who didn’t think Gok Wan was amazing. The first bit is all about this mythical woman far away who rolls her eyes etc., like some kind of Holy Grail. Then at the end he’s making do with an android which does the same thing, like that’s the closest he could get in the real world.
This would make more sense if the middle bit didn’t seem to be about a meeting with the human Gok-sceptic, which seemed to go quite well, apart from the massive forest fire.
Sep 25th, 2011
Jason
Working chords out for this was actually trickier than I expected because I kept second-guessing what they *ought* to be in HMHB terms. This is, however, a truly fantastic track.
I’ll either be covering this or Tommy Walsh’s Eco House in the next few days, depending on whether I can get a good uke arrangement working for Tommy Walsh.
Sep 26th, 2011
John Anderson
While I can heartily endorse the ridicule of Barry Venison, Garth Crooks and Bob Wilson as TV pundits, I feel the excellent Jim Beglin is being a bit hard done by. I’d prefer to see Robbie Savage or Mark Bright bricked up any day.
Sep 26th, 2011
TWO FAT FEET
I’d sooner see Gok Wan himself bricked up.
Sep 26th, 2011
Norbert D
The problem with Jim Beglin is that he’s never seen a tackle he didn’t like. “I don’t think there’s any malice there”, “I think the referee’s been a bit harsh there” etc. Libertarian jeers, sort of.
Sep 26th, 2011
TWO FAT FEET
I bet he didn’t see Gary Stevens coming either.
Sep 26th, 2011
Leigh Bushell
Strikes me that there’s a Blade Runner reference here, where he talks about ‘retiring’ his android chum. Also the title of the Philip K Dick novel Blade Runner was based on was called ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep’ hence the song title…?
Sep 27th, 2011
Leigh Bushell
The line ‘the spoon in my drawer, a reminder of childhood’ also echoes the implanted false memories the androids or replicants have. In the film Harrison Ford’s replicant bounty hunter is also implied to be an android with similar implanted memories, so this might explain why the narrator of the song says this. Seems to me Nigel meets the woman of his dreams who thinks Gok Wan is a twat and likes going on country rambles, she just happens to be an android who are designed to empathise with their human companions. Who cares, he’s not gonna let anybody terminate her, in fact he may be one himself. Simple really…
Sep 27th, 2011
Sanchez
The sexy cylon in Battlestar Galactica wore signal red.
Sep 27th, 2011
Charles Exford
Thanks Leigh, for making me feel a bit saner this morning. The song had roused my vague memories of Blade Runner from nearly 30 years ago, but I’m no film expert, and you’ve basically articulated that I’m not completely mad.
Is there colour symbolism in Blade Runner? There usually is in that sort of stuff. Those colours reminded me a bit of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, too.
As for the wonderful tune, it reminds me Monochrome-Set-meets-a-1960s-TV-adventure-theme, or something. Brilliant !
Sep 27th, 2011
Leigh Bushell
Thanks Exxo for confirming it’s not just me, not sure about the colour symbolism will look into that. Another great multi-layered lyric. This is sort of HMHB’s answer to ‘Are Friends Electric’ I reckon.
Sep 27th, 2011
Richard Lovell
‘This spoon in my drawer’ made me think of the 1977 queen’s silver jubilee commemorative spoon I still have somewhere.
A tea towel would have been so much more useful.
Sep 27th, 2011
Charles Exford
‘Chesil Beach, far away in time’. Martha, Muffins, yes obviously….but also McEwan?
Sep 27th, 2011
cbunny
On the colours, if red is a reference to #6 in Battlestar Galactica, many of the military types wore drab olive.
Sep 27th, 2011
cbunny
And stretching the BSG link.
(Minor spoilers)
From Loggerheads to Hope could refer to the story arc of initial Human / Cylon war to the working together to save both species.
Sep 27th, 2011
Gregg Z
Perhaps the only advantage of being one of the few HMHB fans living outside the Isles, is that, until last week, I had no knowledge of the existence of either Jim Beglin or Gok Wan. In the past, when I’ve encountered similar “cultural figures” in the songs, I’ve always assumed said figures were a pack of dicks (Nige gets the benefit of the doubt).
Having just YouTube’d Gok Wan, my hunch was verified. Although, to put the finest of points on the matter, Nigel is going on about the acolytes, not the man himself.
Sep 28th, 2011
Mr Larrington
Curiously Gok Wan – whose name is an anagram of “Go Wank” – had a new series starting yesterday. First port of call? Merseyside.
Sep 28th, 2011
Charles Exford
Ooh that reminds me – wrong thread I suppose, but it’s appropriate here too – Nick ‘Fucking’ Knowles was up on Merseyside the other day. Now I’d never be one to knock charitable works in the Big Society, no way, but see his unassuming quotes on page 2 of this article.
Nice of him to be “rescuing a generation of young people” I thought.
Sep 28th, 2011
stevie lucas
It’s funny that Bladerunner has been mentioned as I was thinking today that maybe the title “Fix it so she dreams of me” is maybe a ref to “Do androids dream of electric sheep”.
Sep 28th, 2011
Third Rate Les
Matt – glad it’s not just me who had never heard of Gok Wan (well, aside from Gregg Z).
And Gregg Z – the Bladerunner and Battlestar Galactica refs passing me by, and to the unititiated sound a bit far fetched. Bladerunner is one of those films (like Being There and even Holy Grail) which however much I like in theory I don’t think I’ve ever sat through without nodding off.
Sep 28th, 2011
Littlegrafter
Loggerheads to Hope, assuming its Loggerheads in Shropshire the route goes straight through Leek (where the beak is cheap)!
This song is also brilliant, probably my current favourite.
Sep 28th, 2011
stevie lucas
Is it possible that NB is singing “I’m not one who rolls there eyes…”?
Sep 28th, 2011
Matt Lee
Has to be, especially:
And now I’ve found these androids empathise, understand and realise
Sep 28th, 2011
S.G.D A SHROPSHIRE LAD
fao LITTLEGRAFTER
What if they mean Hope, Shropshire? It is only a couple of miles from the car park at Snailbeach.
Sep 28th, 2011
Leigh Bushell
Think it’s Loggerheads near Mold, Flintshire where there’s a country park with lots of walks and trails and Hope near Wrexham. Nigel spends a lot of time in North Wales I believe.
Sep 28th, 2011
Littlegrafter
Well I did wonder about which Loggerheads its might be, but for some reason didnt consider any other Hopes (mainly on account of not looking for any others and thinking that the keen walker Nigel would obviously mean the Peak District one). As for Hope in Shropshire, perhaps too close to the Stiperstones? This isn’t a concept album after all is it. But looking at other place names in that area, you could come up with a wealth of future references…Grimmer, Shelve, The Bog, WAGBeach, Gravels and Bridges all could make an appearnce in future songs I reckon.
Sep 29th, 2011
John Burscough
Further proof (if proof were needed) of the Blade Runner connection.
Sep 29th, 2011
DavidG
“Chesil Beach, far away in time…” obviously Martha and the Muffins – but why? On the cover of that single is a map (probably Ordnance Survey) showing an area of beach/sea, with a reference of “EB” on it. The designer has then typed “echo beach” next to it. I’ve always recognised the map as being the northern end of Chesil Beach…….presumably Nigel has as well.
http://www.enuii.org/images/echo%20beach.jpg
Sep 29th, 2011
Paul F
Hell of a spot that DavidG!
Sep 29th, 2011
Petrovic
Good Lord, you’re right!
(Map of Chesil Beach)
I’m deeply impressed.
Sep 29th, 2011
Martin
DavidG that’s great work. It makes you wonder what obscure references have been made in other songs but not yet noticed. Nigel – like the murderer who taunts the police – sitting drinking his tea, laughing at us having missed his clues.
Sep 29th, 2011
Third Rate Les
Wow – ace work on the Chesil Beach there.
And a tad more convincing than the spoons/colours/Bladerunner/BSG connections. Although I can see that using the verb “retire” transatively in reference to an android is likely to be a Bladerunner reference.
It’s a wonderful notion though – the idea that if androids could empathise, we’d end up with girls who can walk briskly, dislike ludicrous TV irritants and collect interesting things. My Mrs walks 5mph, can’t stand camp TV chefs and collects Boris Vian memorabilia and packets of sugar, so I’ve started checking to see if I can see the chips and wires.
Sep 29th, 2011
Sheridan
It occurs to me, as a Wirral resident, that whenever someone mentions Loggerheads, or Hope, around here, it’s usually Loggerheads by Moel Famau and Hope (y Hob) near Wrexham, as mentioned above. Their relative proximity leaves me convinced that these are the places Nigel has in mind, unless anyone can come up with a really convincing logical argument otherwise.
Sep 29th, 2011
sgd,a Shropshire lad
http://floorboards.blog.co.uk/2010/12/18/martha-and-the-muffins-echo-beach-10211143/
Sep 29th, 2011
Jitsu_g
Clicked on the above link – previous post on said website is about a Crispy Ambulance tune – and the web site is Songs from under the floorboards (A Song from under the floorboards was covered in Leamington).
Sep 29th, 2011
SL Obispo
Idle Googling produces this on wine-coiling (not a phrase with which I am familiar)…
So he spoke, and again I offered the glowing wine; three times I walked up to him with it; three times he witlessly drank it off. When the wine had coiled its way round his understanding, I spoke to him in meek-sounding words: ‘Kyklops, you ask what name I boast of. I will tell you, and then you must grant me as your guest the favour that you have promised me. My name is Noman; Noman is what my mother and father call me; so likewise do all my friends.’
Sep 29th, 2011
Littlegrafter
Re Sheridan
I should have spotted that, having spent a couple of weeks very close by that particular Hope in 1997, when incidentally a drive out took us through Loggerheads on route to Ruthin. Its walking distance between them too!
Sep 30th, 2011
Gregg Z
Exxo, your acumen is unfettered. I, too, thought Monochrome Set on this tune– a bit of that Lester Square, Spaghetti Western-like guitar.
Speaking of criminally underrated groups, I’ve read the Monochrome Set were a huge influence on Johnny Marr and the Smiths.
Away, Cemetry Gates!
Sep 30th, 2011
Petrovic
(An aside to David G: apparently the Echo Beach map is an Admiralty chart, hence the lack of markings on land.)
Oct 1st, 2011
Jim
Plymouth Argyle fans – those of a certain vintage, you understand – have been clamouring for Beglin to be bricked up for a long time, ever since his disinterested, incompetent, disrespectful loan spell at the Theatre of Greens. Expect ‘Fix It’ to be making regular appearances at Argyle Fan Fests in the not too distant future….
When will Nige do a song about George Reilly’s ear, that’s what I want to know…
Oct 1st, 2011
nige b
Hi Jim – We’re off to Home Park next weekend following the mighty Accy Stanley – namechecked on Rock and Roll Is Full of Bad Wools – however I hate Chelsea and to a certain extent England for pretty much the same reason …overpaid thick tossers! Thankfully never been on Soccer AM or may have been arrested by now. Hope you green boys get out of your current mess, you’re a far bigger and better football club than your current position, and I’m sure you will; just don’t start next week!
Oct 1st, 2011
Jim
Thanks for your kind words Nige – very much appreciated. Next Saturday is (another) Fans Reunited Day so there’ll be shirts from several other clubs there as well. If you get there early, the legendary FanFest is well worth a visit – details here.
Don’t suppose I can persuade you to add a Cornish church gig as part of your next tour, can I?
Oct 1st, 2011
Chris The Siteowner
Not sure it’s that Nigel, Jim.
Oct 1st, 2011
Jim
Ah, leave me to dream…..
Oct 1st, 2011
Dave Wiggins
Being away with work, in August, I went to Are-Guy-Ul v AFC Wimbledon. Your assorted kids, plus Simon Walton, did okay for the first twenty, Jim, but AFC never broke sweat after taking the lead. Good to hear that there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Them Ivor Dewdney pasties – from the back of his van – were excellent as well.
Oct 2nd, 2011
DavidG
Thanks for the plaudits – I knew that O level Martha and the Muffins and Geography would one day come in handy……….
Oct 2nd, 2011
chris from future doom
love the playful menace in the delivery of the line “brick him up”
Oct 4th, 2011
Ferenc Puskás to you
Playing it in the car – not the best location for aural perfection – I was hearing
“…I played my sac bunt”
as in, sacrifice bunt, a baseball term for laying down a soft shot to advance a runner.
Had to Google sackbut. Still not sure how the underbrush got kindled.
Oct 7th, 2011
Paul Rodgers (Crimond)
Permit me if you will…
In the opening line to this song Nige introduces us to a mythical woman, a mere possibility. A woman who rolls her eyes at those who follow Gok Wan. Someone who doesn’t follow the herd.
This got me to thinking of another song for another mythical woman, who only appears in dreams. The girl who waves at trains, by Stephen Duffy’s rather marvellous Lilac Time.
In both songs the singer want to head this imaginary place to meet a girl of his dreams, whilst also escaping the city, the rat race and all it entails. In both songs the singer knows he could never live up to the expectations of such a woman.
In the Lilac Time’s song Duffy stops at accepting that he’d be a let down on a date.
Not enough for our Nige, he has to assume his date will be a disaster in which he sets fire to the woods whilst playing the trombone to seduce her. How does he set fire to the kindling? Well apparently the word sacbut comes from push and pull in Middle French. How would wilderness experts set fire to things? Friction. Nige plays his trombone. Instead of generating a seductive tune he generates friction and sets fire to the wood.
And so the androids… Having killed off his dream date, the girl who rolls her eyes at androids who follow Gok Wan who is of course, androgynous), our hero discovers there’s a new type of android, one that has learned feelings and rolls its eyes at Gok Wan acolytes, so he gets himself sorted with one of them.
And so he is beaten by the reality that life will never be as good as his dreams and settles for a different type of android from the one he first wanted to avoid.
Has this anything to do with Bladerunner? No idea, but the lyrics to Echo Beach, Fix It and The Girl Who all seem to have a pretty similar central thread: romantic escapism.
By the way, it woud appear that Echo Beach had different covers depending on which territory it was released in: http://hubrisiscool.wordpress.com/top-100/11-20/15-echo-beach/
Hope that’s cleared it all up?
Oct 11th, 2011
Scotty
i always think that early doors, this sounds a bit like Camouflage by Stan Ridgeway
but then I’ve always been weird (had to try to spell it right as I’ve not got thousands)
Oct 11th, 2011
Paul Rodgers (Crimond)
@ Scotty If it really does sound like Camouflage then it could be deemed another football chant sneaked into a song as me and my mates used to sing a song about Joe Hinnigan. As soon as I mention that “wooooaaaoh camouflage” scans exactly the same as “Jooooooooee Hinnigan” you will never be able to get it out of your head. And you’ll be begging me for the rest of the lyrics.
Oct 12th, 2011
Ceri
If you wanted to interpret this as corporate espionage of some kind, one could imagine that NB57 had insider knowledge of Amazon’s new Android based Kindle Fire.
But I don’t believe that any more than the Bladerunner or Battlestar Galactica ideas.
Oct 14th, 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
Sainsbury’s: Gok Wan acolytes.
Oct 16th, 2011
Restlesslegs
My daughter has just got her first pair of glasses. By Gok Wan.
Do I win £5?
Oct 17th, 2011
Paul Rodgers (Crimond)
only if your name is Christina Martin.
Oct 17th, 2011
Rubber Faced Irritant
Apropos of I’m not sure what, Gok Wan was born Ko-Han Wan which is Cantonese for Noisy Big City. If you substitute noisy big city for Gok Wan in the lyrics it makes marginally more sense; but not much. A rum song indeed.
Oct 20th, 2011
Jason
OK, so I finally got round to getting the chords right. I think. Here’s a rough-cut ukulele version of the song, which I should be able to put a bassline, guitars, percussion, etc onto tomorrow or some time later in the week
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAuDEEgFSc
Chords and stuff will be at my blog once the full version is published.
Oct 25th, 2011
Charles Exford
Great stuff as ever, Jason – but before you record your multi- ‘mental version, see also LoggerheadS in the Clwydian Hills. An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which must despair.
And then once your vid was finished, Youtube gave me a whole mosaic screenful of clips to watch, and I thought “ooh, Frank Turner”, so I clicked on this link.
Blimey. Kudos for being from Manchester, eh? I think I “need to get a fucking hobby”.
Oct 25th, 2011
Jason
LoggerheadS, eh? I was sure NB57 said “loggerhead”, but I just listened closely with my hands over my earbuds and there’s definitely a vague “s” in there. DAMMIT
Makes sense, semantically – obviously making your way from Loggerheads in Clwyd to the Hope Valley in Derbyshire, a fine journey to make in signal red and drab olive.
Though I’d be tempted to go the other way and finish up at the We Three Loggerheads pub, rather than the Poachers arms and the Eco Eco Home.
Oct 26th, 2011
Gregg Z
As mentioned earlier, I hear echoes of the Monochrome Set on this track, chugging along jauntily, as it does. Further, one might imagine during the break (at around the 1:25 mark), the Housemartins make an appearance. London 0, Birkenhead 4 (?)
In other news, the bird on the home page of the website for “Birkenhead Car & Van Hire” aint ‘alf. Just browsing.
Oct 26th, 2011
Charles Exford
As has been pointed out elsewhere Jason, it’s almost certainly Hope near Wrexham. See the lists thread, where Jegsy and the students of the University of Nagasaki tell us that the route between them, the Offa’s Dyke Path, is apparently the first long distance footpath anywhere in the world to give access to ten different Biscuit references (in nine different songs)
Oct 26th, 2011
Shirley Dimensions
Also just browsing Gregg, she certainly is isn’t she?
Oct 26th, 2011
Vendor of Quack Nostrums
@ Gregg. If approx 1:25 is influenced by The Housemartins then what a good place to be (don’t believe it.)
Oct 26th, 2011
Mr Larrington
Can someone fix it so BVH wench dream of ME, plz?
Oct 26th, 2011
Jason
@ Exxo – guess I’m outclassed. Again. I had no idea there was a Hope near Wrexham, but I’ve been to the one in Derbyshire. and I clearly haven’t kept up with the threads.
~72 miles between mine, ~10 miles between yours.
This site is an educational experience from beginning to end
Oct 27th, 2011
Mr Galbraith
My first hearing of ‘Gok Wan acolytes’ was in the ‘but He also gave us’ section of GGUL at Sheffield in December 2009, along with a other modern day human annoyances. NB57 seems to use ad-lib numbers played live and his tangential inter-song comments to ‘test’ lyrics – I thought this one very funny even at the time. Jim Beglin isn’t the worst pundit on TV, but his ignorance of the finer points of the laws of football and his undisguised pro-Liverpool bias justify his incarceration.
PS – I filmed the above song clip at Sheffield and it’s on YouTube. Not great quality but good enough to make out the names.
Oct 27th, 2011
Jason
‘ere ya go Exxo – the cleaned up “loggerheads” version of Jim’ll Fix It So She Dreams Of Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHz-eskchh4
I’ve decided after nearly 16 years of playing bass I’ve now completely forgotten how to do it.
Oct 28th, 2011
J Buckley
@Little grafter No.42, or anyone else. You could walk from Loggerheads (Denbighshire) to Hope [Yr Hob in Welsh] (Wrexham), but it would take about 3hrs! Probably a bike ride using Shimano Ultegra! I live about 5 miles from Loggerheads, in the Clwydian Hills, so I’m counting that as now TWO local mentions.
Oct 28th, 2011
Charles Exford
Bloody hell Jason, you fixed old Jim there. That was a VERY quick result – the first Drunken Madman curse victim !!
I doubt even HMHB are ever going to beat 24 hours from releasing the record to claiming a victim.
Oct 29th, 2011
J Buckley
The Quickest yet!
Oct 29th, 2011
Jeff Dreadnought
Has anyone else noticed a resemblance between NB57 and the late actor Brion James, who played replicant Leon Kowalski in Bladerunner?
Nov 13th, 2011
SPENCER THE HALFWIT
It was him all along!
Nov 13th, 2011
John Burscough
He also played a cajun trapper in Southern Comfort, with the best line in the film: “Lapins.”
Nov 14th, 2011
Pete Langdale
I can’t help but use “Gubba lookalikes” instead of Gok Wan acolytes to this one….
Nov 20th, 2011
Harvey
I’ve carefully listened to the verse about the sackbut, and I’m pretty sure that he’s singing “I set HER woods ablaze.” I reckon “sackbut” and “underbrush” are sexual references. In other words he’s got carried away and had it off with his android causing some kind of short circuit, and fire. Maybe androids like her aren’t designed for that kind of thing, but he “unwittingly” didn’t realise it? However despite the fire damage he doesn’t want to give up on her, and wants “it” (the part of her that’s been damaged) fixed, preferably in a way that allows for sexual activities to go with the feelings he believes she is capable of having for him. That explains the title of the song.
Nov 21st, 2011
Duchess of Westminster
I hear “the” but I’m sure he set her woods ablaze. Sackbut is one of those words that make school boys snigger. All that pushing and pulling.
Cylons are programmed for great sex. They do not explode. Their spines glow.
Nerds have the best fantasies.
Nov 22nd, 2011
Harvey
Well either way, I think the line is a sexual reference. A bit of googling came up with a line from The Battle of Kookamonga by Homer and Jethro, which contains the chorus:
“We’re the boys from Camp Kookamonga!
Our mothers sent us here for to study nature’s ways.
We learned to make sparks by rubbing sticks together,
But if we catch the girls then we’ll set the woods ablaze!”
By the way, as an aside, the latter song is a parody of “The Battle of New Orleans,” a patriotic American song about the War of 1812. If you’re not familiar with what happened in the War of 1812, Canadian band The Arrogant Worms in their song “The War of 1812″ can provide a good history lesson. “The Battle of New Orleans” is also parodied during that song, too.
Nov 22nd, 2011
That Swan
I know NB57 likes a good coat. Henri Lloyd do ladies’ jackets in Signal Red, and most army surplus jackets are Drab Olive.
Dec 3rd, 2011
Some random person
I hear
“IT can’t be found in the Domesday Book”
Jan 18th, 2012
aiwacat
I also hear “it”, rather than “that”.
Jan 20th, 2012
ROBISCUIT
Arriving late at 90B, I found this on eternal loop in my daily commute: a beautiful song with a phrase – “Gok Wan Acolytes” – that burned in my brain for weeks. Pseuds aside, I wondered what the heck it could be about and throw the following into the ring for discussion:
Somehow, somewhere, there’s somebody for everyone, even the narrator of this song, whose needs or personal deficiencies or pickiness mean that there’s only one rare jewel out there, which will be hard to find, but he does.
There’s been some unpleasantness even with this paragon, though, which draws him to consider the merits of un-fickle inanimate objects are and he somehow fashions a robot which can satisfy at least his companionship needs, yet still has to “have it perfect”. How he fashions it is (unlike NB57 normally) unclear, but there seems to be some kind of fire involved, so perhaps she dies in this and he reanimates her, which makes for interesting dinner parties I guess.
Haven’t got a scooby what the Jim Beglin thing is though.
I can’t put finger on just why this song is as good as it is. Opaque and beautiful like, er, Auden, but I don’t particularly like Auden and the B-side of “Opacity” is “Confused and muddy”. Just love that “skies” / “I” / “My” rhyme though.
Feb 7th, 2012
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