Post by vegetableman on Aug 13, 2006 23:26:44 GMT
Hey everybody! How's it going? I was just listening to this T REX song from 'The Slider'; the album with the famous top hat picture, taken by Ringo Starr incidentally. I believe this song to be an open letter to Faul.
Ballrooms of Mars
you gonna look fine
be primed for dancing
you're gonna trip and glide
all on the trembling plane
your diamond hands
will be stacked with roses
and wind and cars
and people of the past
i'll call you thing
just when the moon sings
and place your face in stone
upon the hills of stars
and gripped in the arms
of the changeless madman
we'll dance our lives away
in the ballrooms of mars
you talk about day
i'm talking 'bout night time
when the monsters call out
the names of men
bob dylan knows
and i bet alan freed did
there are things in night
that better not to behold
you dance
with your lizard leather boots on
and pull the strings
that change the faces of men
you diamond browed hag
you're a gutter-gaunt gangster
john lennon knows your name
and i've seen his
This sounds an awful lot like the cover of Sgt. Pepper's to me...cars, people of the past...
This is a little creepy. The whole song is really. A gutter-gaunt gangster indeed. Faul is far more gaunt than JPM. 'John Lennon knows your name', you bet he does. Curious Marc Bolan says 'I've seen his'. We'll never know because Marc died in a car crash, three nights after Bowie was on his t.v. show.
'Man I need T.V. when I got T Rex.'
-All The Young Dudes
Ballrooms of Mars
you gonna look fine
be primed for dancing
you're gonna trip and glide
all on the trembling plane
your diamond hands
will be stacked with roses
and wind and cars
and people of the past
i'll call you thing
just when the moon sings
and place your face in stone
upon the hills of stars
and gripped in the arms
of the changeless madman
we'll dance our lives away
in the ballrooms of mars
you talk about day
i'm talking 'bout night time
when the monsters call out
the names of men
bob dylan knows
and i bet alan freed did
there are things in night
that better not to behold
you dance
with your lizard leather boots on
and pull the strings
that change the faces of men
you diamond browed hag
you're a gutter-gaunt gangster
john lennon knows your name
and i've seen his
your diamond hands
will be stacked with roses
and wind and cars
and people of the past
will be stacked with roses
and wind and cars
and people of the past
This sounds an awful lot like the cover of Sgt. Pepper's to me...cars, people of the past...
you dance
with your lizard leather boots on
and pull the strings
that change the faces of men
you diamond browed hag
you're a gutter-gaunt gangster
john lennon knows your name
and i've seen his
with your lizard leather boots on
and pull the strings
that change the faces of men
you diamond browed hag
you're a gutter-gaunt gangster
john lennon knows your name
and i've seen his
This is a little creepy. The whole song is really. A gutter-gaunt gangster indeed. Faul is far more gaunt than JPM. 'John Lennon knows your name', you bet he does. Curious Marc Bolan says 'I've seen his'. We'll never know because Marc died in a car crash, three nights after Bowie was on his t.v. show.
'Man I need T.V. when I got T Rex.'
-All The Young Dudes