This is a rather personal piece, since for many years I've had this weird fascination with 1973 like it was some kind of utopian golden age. So I wrote a song about that.
This track is the first time I've recorded bass with the tape running backwards.
lyrics
1973
When I was young I wished I could travel back to 1973
A promised land of fantastic music, all the things I wanted to see
So many wonders that I could purchase
All the places that I could go
A first edition of Selling England
I could see the Floyd at a show
Nineteen Seventy Three!
Nineteen Seventy Three!
I dreamed of seeing the sights and marvels
Of the time before I was born
When all that music was fresh not laughed at
With contempt and treated with scorn
Five years later the tide had turned and we had lost that creative spark
I wished to see it all shining bright before it left us here in the dark
Nineteen Seventy Three!
Nineteen Seventy Three!
Now things have taken a backward slide
We have a broken economy
The price of energy’s rising sharply
Like it’s 1973
I only wanted to pay a visit, living there just wasn’t for me
But now the problems that plagued that time are part of current reality
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