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Tue Oct-05-04 01:00 PM
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Great tune, but what are the lyrics about?
Sounds like some kind of acid experience but that's just a guess, based on what the lyrics are and the times (early 70's as I recall)
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:03 PM
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1. The day in the life of an interior decorator? |
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:03 PM
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2. What I recall of the early 70's is that it was some sort of acid trip |
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I remember hearing the song on a juke box in a bar on Vermilyea Ave in upper upper Manhattan.
It still embarrasses me that I had to ask "who are those guys."
A childhood wasted in the Yonkers Public library.
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:06 PM
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5. Well if you're in or near NYC, tune in 104.3 FM. |
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They are playing lots of Clapton stuff.
Well, were anyway.
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:04 PM
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Most post-psychedelic lyrics are meaningless pap. This is one of them.
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:05 PM
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:08 PM
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6. Great site... Thanks!! |
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:31 PM
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8. This really is a cool site! |
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Thu Oct-07-04 11:59 AM
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13. Whoa, this is cool as hell! |
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:10 PM
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7. The CIA had a special white room in the Long Binh prison in Vietnam |
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when the song came out. :tinfoilhat: Oh, yes they did!
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Thu Oct-07-04 11:56 AM
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:35 PM
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9. Song was released on Oct. 5, 1968 |
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Tue Oct-05-04 01:57 PM
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But I love Tales of Brave Ulysses so much more! (But also a little tricky!)
Lyrics:
You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever, But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.
And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids, And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses: How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing, For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.
And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise, And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea. And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body, Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.
The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers, And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.
Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell, And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands With tales of brave Ulysses; how his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing.
The tiny purple fishes run lauging through your fingers, And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.
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