Transcribed from a dictaphone 1985 for John Steel
Surrealist prose set to music
lyrics
Goodbye John
July, it was a fruitless month
Chibed molested and at the end of it a birthday
Thespian narration can only give half
And a rotten egg with spit on it the other
In an atmosphere of salt the human clock shook to the endowing of nature
The splitting up of two towns
Everything is chaotic and all that is real takes a back seat
That picture tells a lie, just as a song can hide a whim
New pressure is added, inane facts come to the fore
And the mid distorts
Goodbye John, I hope your there to meet me when Im gone
My old son the grass is black we both reap the same yawn
From the cabbage patch boy to the thud of a street car as it moves with the wan of the morning
The pedantic light shift sends waves of fear over this solitary stone
An inflection has taken place, a recital of thought
An effortless sketch of a childlike view of what appears to be true, untrue
I hear singing again
An erection starts and then the dawn once again
Goodbye John, I hope your there to meet me when Im gone
My old son the grass is black we both reap the same yawn
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An essential listening experience; quintessentially English, sounds of the countryside, overlapping with ambient piano and woodwind instrumentation. shenzhenbrit
Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020
supported by 4 fans who also own “Gladsome Humour & Blue”
John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP.