Friday, December 12, 2008
The nightmare I'd missed for so long
posted by John Davies at 1:22 PM
The simple purchase of a turntable rubber (plus some furniture moving, dodgy rewiring and rare dusting) and for the first time in well over a decade, I played a vinyl album today. It just had to be Larry Norman's Nightmare, the first track on. So brilliant I cried.
"let the proud but dying nation kiss the last generation
it's the year of the pill, age of the gland
we have landed on the moon but we'll clutter that up soon
our sense of freedom's gotten out of hand
we kill our children swap our wives
we've learned to greet a man with knives
we swallow pills in fours and fives
our cities look like crumbling hives
man does not live he just survives
we sleep till he arrives
love is a corpse we sit and watch it harden
we left it oh so long ago the garden"
john davies
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