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Old 07-09-2022, 20:44
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Good idea for a thread.

There have been many over the years, for a long time it was this in nobody loved you...

Quote:
Cherry blossom tree - but at least you are free
Nobody loved you - like me
It's unreal now you're gone - but at least you belong
Nobody loved you - no no
There's a live version from oslo in 98 which has too much fairground organ on it but that bit hits with force, especially when james comes in after the solo. The slightly out of tune guitar adding something.
A travesty they took it off the 20th anniversary edition tracklisting.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g4xTDJMrMn8

Bonus lyric...

Quote:
We were young, and yet we were old
We were bought, and yet we were sold
We were body, and yet we were soul
We were rust and yet we were gold
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Please, he prayed, now -
A gray disk, the colour of Chiba sky.
Now -
Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray. Expanding -
And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity.
Inner eye opening to the stepped scarlet pyramid of the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority burning beyond the green cubes of Mitsubishi Bank of America,
and high and very far away he saw the spiral arms of military systems, forever beyond his reach.
And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.
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