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with a baby in her hands
While the child weighs on her mind
Mama's looking for a man
'Cause her Daddy's in the doldrums
and Mama wants to dance
Yeah, Daddy's in the doldrums
and he can barely stand
So where were you?
His eyes stood frozen, dark
A breath of overcasting black
I watched her walk away
I know she ain't coming back
'Cause her Daddy's in the doldrums
and Mama wants to dance
Yeah, Daddy's in the doldrums
and he can barely stand
So where were you?
With each step she took
Another nail driven
In building her wreck
No, don't look back or
Watch me reign down
'Cause it's an act
Though my love just feels deceit
the sickening beat gets carried away
I can never forget the first time I heard this at a healthy volume... I was sitting at my desk in my penthouse in hip, leafy, eclectic Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, looking at the distant majestic snow-cone of Fuji-san through the dining room windows and at the towers of Shinjuku, Roppongi and MidTown through the sliding glass doors of my bedroom deck, and this came on, and I cranked it, good, and man, we grooved...towards the end, the neighbors let me know they dug it too but wanted me to turn it down. Still love it on every level!
must've been a hell of a view because I found the song plodding and monotonous. but each his own.. ?
Funny thing is I just had my first child. And I feel like this. Like some door in my life just slammed shut really really loud.
That kid would be fifteen now. Hope you two are on good terms and talk unreservedly with each other.
Secret Machines has some really great songs. A couple of my favourites are Lighting Blue Eyes (from this same album, Ten Silver Drops) and Nowhere Again from Now Here is Nowhere. One of the founding members, Benjamin Curtis, went on to start School of Seven Bells in 2007 (I'm a BIG fan) and then tragically died in 2013. The remaining two members (Benjamin's brother Brandon and that brilliant drummer, Josh Garza) released a new Secret Machines album in 2020: Awake in the Brain Chamber.
"School of Seven Bells" sounds like it should be the title of a Kate Bush song. Fantastic band name.
Never heard of them before this, ...Thanx RP!
RP has a habit of doing that for me too
Agree to some extent. But this singer sounds noth ing like the chick that sings for Rush.
That's a MAN baby!
(I wonder if Geddy can still hit those high notes?)
Never heard of them before this, ...Thanx RP!
Same here! Great tune!
Funny thing is I just had my first child. And I feel like this. Like some door in my life just slammed shut really really loud.
You already know this because your child is 14, but another door opens, much more quietly, but infinitely more profoundly.
definitely got that heavy groove..dig it.
Ominous.
I can never forget the first time I heard this at a healthy volume... I was sitting at my desk in my penthouse in hip, leafy, eclectic Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, looking at the distant majestic snow-cone of Fuji-san through the dining room windows and at the towers of Shinjuku, Roppongi and MidTown through the sliding glass doors of my bedroom deck, and this came on, and I cranked it, good, and man, we grooved...towards the end, the neighbors let me know they dug it too but wanted me to turn it down. Still love it on every level!
Tokyo. No place on the world like it. When I was there is was Napster in Ogikubo. Radio Paradise hadn't been invented!
Look after the king of R n R please
You paint a lovely picture, wish I was there...
Look after the king of R n R please
I concur!
You paint a lovely picture, wish I was there...
... and making some improvements.
I thought it was Midnight Oil, too.
...romeo, is that you?..
I que'd it up in a rental car once, as I drove up to the edge of the South Rim of Grand Canyon at sunset, a million desert sky colors and crazy deepening canyon shadows - it was like being on another planet. I will always have this song and that vista burned together in my mind. Getting the exact image as I listen now.
I can see how some don't like it, but it really works for me.
A wise insight! Tune feels incomplete to me - it feels close to AMAZING but definitely falls short and into just "pretty good."
I hate Hitler. I don't hate music.
I'm with ya! liked first time and still! lol
If you do not mind, share some 400-500 other reasons with me, please!
Man, that is so true!
With each step she took
Another nail driven
In building her wreck