The Sound of the Crowd

Four songs

Tears For Fears, Start Of The Breakdown:

Scratch the ice

Let the telephone ring

Sense of time is a powerful thing

And we love to laugh

Love to cry

Half alive

We love to

Go slow when we’re dancing for rain

Dry skin flakes where there’s ice in the vein

And we love to cry

Half alive

Is this the start of the breakdown ?

I can’t understand you

Kirsty MacColl, Soho Square:

One day you’ll be waiting there, no empty bench in Soho Square

No I don’t know the reason why I’ll love you till the day I die

But one day you’ll be waiting there

Come summertime in Soho Square

And I’ll be painting stars up in the sky

Before I get too old to cry before my birthday

I hope I see those pigeons fly before my birthday

In Soho Square on my birthday

Joe Jackson, flying:

the older i get the more stupid i feel-i don’t

know what’s going on/ tired of trying to be strong when

i should be crying/ the further i go the less distance i

see-leave behind another home/ the harder i try the less

people i please/ the older i get the more lucid i feel-let

it go and let it come/ tired of trying to belong-when i

could be flying

Optiganally Yours, Oar:

The waves hit the caves and the men underwater

try to swim through the shards of light.

The ship’s run aground.

All hands overboard.

I can’t stay afloat.

My raft’s taking water.

My friends, if you see my oar float alone

then you know I won’t be back and I never made it home.

Wave bye.

I’m gone.


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