A strange song, from where it came I dunno
I remember playing this on 'Sight and Sound in concert' performing alongside band The Bible
lyrics
I Pray
I belong common, that conclusion came
After two years of kicking and fifteen years lame
Strangled in a trench coat, on a hot summers day, I pray
Bring on the mongrel, the fool with the hat
Send your stones and your postcards, and your dancing twins books
I'll just keep doing what I always did, put the fish in the sack, I pray
I pray, so dark so long
I pray, so dark so long
I pray!
Him with his ego and me with these hooks
Should get together sometime and Rock this town
Joke to joke, back to back, we meet
Some hectic circus this is, hectic grave
Let difference be difference, I swear these hours are but a waste of time
And amid the hectic circus, and the hectic grave
Bring on yesterday, not today
I pray, so dark so long
I pray, so dark so long
I pray!
And the wind blows everything
That includes mood, name
Pathetic pop stars with shades
Give it blues man!
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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
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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.