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Alan Clayson & The Argonauts - The Local Mister Strange

from Ancient And Modern: Highlights of Half​-​a​-​Century by Alan Clayson

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lyrics

Worry, worry, worry -
The cathode pinpoint dies.
Hurry, hurry, hurry -
He drew my blinds; his sunlight dazzled my eyes.

He meddled with dark forces.
He made it bleep and whine
From chimney to transmitter,
On the superheterodyne -
And suddenly from more or less
Nothingness,
It spiralled into life.

Sinking, sinking, sinking
Into the danger zone;
Thinking, thinking, thinking -
From a mere molehill, this Everest has grown.

My heart's a lonely soldier
Lost in inaction,
That morning true love hit me
And put my tongue in traction.
It had to be forbidden then,
Hidden then.
It dare not speak its name.

He left me to a quietude, no more visitations
From a world apart where strangeness spreads
Like smoke from his cigarette.
Its ash and its filter are sacred relics,
Splinters from the True Cross.

Ill fares my island now
In grey eternity.
Like water is the ocean,
That beaming screen is me.
A hermit's tortured rhapsodies,
Their ecstasies -
They rock around the clock.

Grumble, grumble, grumble -
Mumble at the TV
Fumble, fumble, fumble -
I change the station and hope in vain to change me,
Exchange me, age me, derange me, rearrange me, estrange me…

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from Ancient And Modern: Highlights of Half​-​a​-​Century, released December 8, 2023
featuring John Otway (theramin)

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