Songs and Shuttles
Ever seem like the Space Shuttle launches whenever you aren’t looking?
Anyway I was catching up on Escapepod episodes that I hadn’t listened to yet (lots) and at the end of EP114 there was a song called “The Fall” you gotta listen to it. I want his CD but it might be a bit depressing…
August 9th, 2007 at 8:56 am
I was able to write down the lyrics if you want them:
A million tents and trailers will cover the open desert
Your kids will learn again how to build a fire, where to look for water
And the families are bound together now by the fall of all the great cities
Finally to sing out their stories and the histories
Of hunger and the victories
Back into the old gypsy circles where the ’swayin girls will play out the old rituals
The boys will be delirious but desperate and serious
The chasing will be furious
The drugs and the rain will come together how?
And the cities are all lost but the circle is found and ‘ill tie us together
OOOOOOOOO, my kind of town
Who were you before the fall?
I was a singer, I saw the future laid out in dominoes
Now I hunt the buffalos
And my darling who were you behind the counter with the day memorized?
And those cold vacant eyes
Well you swore you were free, swore you could see him ‘comin
It was old angel midnight, staring you down
He’s stealing the water right out of the ground
And the news is all true but the views are unsound
The market is dead and the phone lines are down
But it ties us together
OOOOOOOOO, my kind of town