Truemors
Today's FGR group is Songs Of The 80s. I couldn't decide which one to do, so I let my iPod decide; I put it onto shuffle and decided to let the first 1980s track that came up be my inspiration.
It was Orabidoo, from Mike Oldfield's 1982 album 'Five Miles Out'. This is still one of my favourite Oldfield albums, mostly because I still love the extended instrumental track 'Taurus II' which opens it*.
I have no idea what the lyrics are all about.
Orabidoo - Mike Oldfield
Watch the skys dawning on you
Soaring over country land
Message comes from Kathmandu
Sky is blue and clear
program your outing
gaze at clouds in this window pane
where is your wish going
the wind in control to [...]
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lazing in the sun we glide
soon you come from watch
touched you save me just in time
storm is out to catch
program your chartering
gaze at clouds in this window pane
stay patched through onto me
crawling into trouble that's plain
O
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watch-out storms in kathmandu
calling from country air
mes-sage comes from kathmandu
sky is blue and clear
program your outing
watching now your system for rains
[...] is forty story
{ Musical collage with "dou dou dou" sample-chant }
[don't come in again like that, it isn't funny
and I can pay someone else to make the orchestrations]
Oh island of the soul
Valleys hushed and white with snow
Ireland's eye - you linger with me 'til the day I die
Oh how it hurts to go
The waters ebb and flow
The changing seasons come and go
Ireland's eye - forever reaching up into the sky
Oh how I'll miss you so
The sunlight dancing on your rocky shores
The moonlight playing upon the water
Your memory will stay with me forever-more
Wherever I may roam
Stay with my dreams I will see you
Safe in my heart I will keep you
*The album featured the song 'Family Man'. Hall and Oates did a cover of it not long afterwards which enjoyed some chart success.
A year ago today featured the very same iPod that picked this track :-)
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