Thursday, March 23, 2017

shangri la la la la la la...

Eric Brown RIP


THE KINKS LYRICS

"Shangri-La"

Now that you've found your paradise
This is your Kingdom to command
You can go outside and polish your car
Or sit by the fire in your Shangri-la
Here is your reward for working so hard
Gone are the lavatories in the back yard
Gone are the days when you dreamed of that car
You just want to sit in your Shangri-la

Put on your slippers and sit by the fire
You've reached your top and you just can't get any higher
You're in your place and you know where you are
In your Shangri-la
Sit back in your old rocking chair
You need not worry, you need not care
You can't go anywhere
Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la

The little man who gets the train
Got a mortgage hanging over his head
But he's too scared to complain
'Cos he's conditioned that way
Time goes by and he pays off his debts
Got a TV set and a radio
For seven shillings a week
Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la

And all the houses in the street have got a name
'Cos all the houses in the street they look the same
Same chimney pots, same little cars, same window panes
The neighbors call to tell you things that you should know
They say their lines, they drink their tea, and then they go
They tell your business in another Shangri-la
The gas bills and the water rates, and payments on the car
Too scared to think about how insecure you are
Life ain't so happy in your little Shangri-la
Shangri-la, Shangri-la la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Put on your slippers and sit by the fire
You've reached your top and you just can't get any higher
You're in your place and you know where you are
In your Shangri-la
Sit back in your old rocking chair
You need not worry, you need not care
You can't go anywhere
Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la


The Village Green Preservation Society is a too much bundle of wax.
Ray and the boys really excelled themselves.
Even "borrowing" the main riff to smokestack lighting for one

song.

got the chords for Animal Farm yesterday and I think I will actually learn the song in its entirety.
Dont bother much with that anymore but this one could be worth it.

nice t-jet overhead this morning. very quiet and then it made a steep descent into Masterton Aerodrome.
We in the big leagues now.

Re yesterday.
if you really want to know how it all works then you could start with Peter Gays book on Freud.
A marvellous expostion indeed.

of course Peter Gay is on the outer too after he outed Gibbon for cribbing the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire from an obscure French monk who like Mendel was never recognised by the world at large.



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