1974
Robyn Hitchcock

You have two coffees

One of them is one coffee too many for you

On a health kick

Trying to lead a middle-aged life

Well, it's either that or drop dead

Wait 'til you get older than this

And then turn around and tell me I was young for my age

Yeah

And it feels like 1974

Waiting for the waves to come and crash on the shore

But you're far in land

You're in funky denim wonderland

You and David Crosby and a bloke with no hand

You've got hair in places

Most people haven't got brains

Ooh

But it feels like 1974

Syd Barrett's last session, he can't sing anymore

He's gonna have to be Roger now for the rest of his life

Oh

Enough about me, let's talk about you

You were working at the Earth Exchange at half twenty-two

'Rebel Rebel' was your favorite song

On the Archway Road

Where it all belongs

All those molecules of time

That you thought you'd shed forever

All those inches of time

That you thought you could just say bye-bye

And as Nixon left the White House

You could hear people say,

They'll never rehabilitate that mother

No way.

Yep

Whirry-whirry goes the helicopter out of my way

I've got president to dump in the void

Ooh

Python's last series and The Guardian said,

The stench of rotting minds

But what else could you smell back then?

You didn't have to inhale too hard

You could smell the heads festering in the backyard

There's a baby in a basket and it's taken your name

And one day it'll grow up and say,

Who are you,

Eh?

And you say that's where it ended

But I say no no no, it just faded away

August was grey

It feels like 1974

Ghastly mellow saxophones all over the floor

Feels like 1974

You could vote for Labour, but you can't anymore

Feels like 1974

Digging Led Zeppelin in Grimsby

Oh Christ


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  Don't You   Don't You   Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)   Eaten By Her Own Dinner   Egyptian Cream   Eight Miles High   Elizabeth Jade   Elizabeth Jade [Andy Kershaw Session]   English Girl   Everybody Needs Love   Executioner Of Love   Falling Leaves   Fiend Before The Shrine   Flanagan's Song   Flanagan's Song   Flavour Of Night   Flesh Cartoons   Freeze   Full Moon In My Soul   Furry Green Atom Bowl   Ghost Of Light   Ghost Ship   Give Me A Spanner, Ralph   Glass Hotel   Globe Of Frogs (acoustic)   Globe Of Frogs {acoustic}   Goodnight Oslo   Gran   Heaven   Heliotrope   Heliotrope [Mark Radcliffe Session]   How Do You Work This Thing?   Hurry For The Sky   I Am Not Me   I Don't Believe You   I Feel Beautiful   I Got A Message For You   I Often Dream Of Trains   I Saw Nick Drake   I Saw Nick Drake [Andy Kershaw Session]   I Used To Love You   I Used To Say I Love You   I Watch The Cars   I Wish I Liked You   I'm Only You   I'm Only You   Idonia   If I Could Look   If You Go Away   If You Know Time   If You Were A Priest   It Was The Night   It's A Mystic Trip   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   It's A Mystic Trip   It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   Jewels For Sophia   Jewels for Sophia [Andy Kershaw Session]   Judas Sings (Jesus & Me)   Judas Sings (Jesus & Me)   Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues   Keep Finding Me   Keeping Still   Kingdom Of Love   Lady Waters And The Hooded One   Legalized Murder   Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat   Let There Be More Darkness   Let's Go Thundering   Let's Go Thundering   Like A Rolling Stone   Linctus House   Listening To The Higsons   Love   Luminous Rose   Madonna Of The Wasps   Madonna of the Wasps [Andy Kershaw Session]   Man With A Woman's Shadow   Man With A Woman's Shadow   Maria Lyn   Meat   Mellow Together   Message Of Dark   Mexican God   Midnight Fish   More Than This   Mr Rock 'n' Roll   Mr Rock 'n' Roll   Mr. Deadly   Museum of Sex   My Earthly Paradise   My Favourite Buildings   My Wife And My Dead Wife   NASA Clapping   Nietzsche's Way   Nietzsche's Way   Night Ride To Trinidad   No, I Don't Remember Guildford   No, I Don't Remember Guildford   Not Dark Yet   Nothing   Oceanside   One L   One Long Pair Of Eyes   One Long Pair Of Eyes (acoustic)   One Too Many Mornings   Open The Door Homer   Out Of The Picture   Penelope's Angles   Penelope's Angles   Point It At Gran   Polly On The Shore   Queen Elvis   Railway Shoes   Raining Twilight Coast   Raymond Chandler Evening   Red Locust Frenzy   Ride   Round Song   Ruling Class   Sally Was A Legend   Sally Was a Legend [Andy Kershaw Session]   Satellite   Saturday Groovers   September Cones   Serpent At The Gates Of Wisdom   She Doesn't Exist   She Doesn't Exist   She Doesnt Exist   She Reached For A Light   Sinister But She Was Happy   Sleeping With Your Devil Mask   So You Think You're In Love   So You Think You're In Love   So You Think Youre In Love   Solpadeine   Sometimes A Blonde   Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl   Sounds Great When You're Dead   Sounds Great When You're Dead   Spoken Word Intro   St Petersburg   Star Of Hairs   Stranded In The Future   Superman   Surgery   Sweet Ghost Of Light   Take Your Knife Out Of My Back   Tangled Up In Blue   Television   Tell Me Mama   The Authority Box   The Banana Boat Song   The Bones In The Ground   The Cars She Used To Drive   The Cheese Alarm   The Cheese Alarm [Andy Kershaw Session]   The Devil's Radio   The Devil's Radio   The Devils Coachman   The Dust   The Green Boy   The Idea Of You   The Lizard   The Man Who Invented Himself   The Man With The Lightbulb Head   The Moon Inside   The Philospher's Stone   The Rain   The Shapes Between Us Turn To Animals   The Sound Of Sound   The Speed Of Things   The Underneath   The Wind Cries Mary   The Wreck Of The Arthur Lee   The Yip Song   Then You're Dust   Then You're Dust   This Could Be The Day   This Is How It Feels   TLC   Trams Of Old London   Transparent Lover   Transparent Lovers   Trash   Tropical Flesh Mandala   Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before They Close The Door   Tryin' To Get To Heaven Before They Close The...   Uncorrected Personality Traits   Underground Sun   Vegetable Friend   Veins Of The Queen   Vibrating   Victorian Squid   Visions Of Johanna   Viva! Sea-Tac   Wafflehead   Wax Doll   We're Gonna Live In The Trees   Welcome To Earth   When I Was A Kid   Where Do You Go When You Die?   Where Do You Go When You Die? [Andy Kershaw Sessio...   You & Me   You Remind Me Of You   You've Got   You've Got A Sweet Mouth On You, Baby   Young People Scream   Your Head Here

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