ODE TO THE SIRENS

Far beyond the pale horizon
your tortured sighs fall like rain,
once the raven of October
now on flaggy shores
you watch the waves.

You were so pure
not for this world
an upstanding anthem to the sky,
now acid sharp your sensation
as your destiny prepares to fly.

Through alchemy your beauty lingers
to fade like gold before my eyes,
gatefold a Goddess of seduction
you are the key to paradise.

Yet bitter- sweet your tomorrow
you spin the disc around and round,
whilst in reverie your dreams seek solace
and soar aloft over stony ground.

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Permalink Reply by Terry 'O' on June 29, 2009 at 4:25pm: Now what would be even more clever would all these lines edited into one track!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anthony Whiteoak on June 30, 2009 at 10:10am: Hi Terry,

I haven't thought about that until now but I'm no good with technology only a few chords on the keyboard . Would love to hear the words put to music though, do you know anyone?

All the same glad you liked it, I just like playing around with the lyrics and adding my own here and there. I don't claim this is original but the Roxy and Ferry lyrics are so malleable, such great material to shape ideas onto.

Many thanks

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Permalink Reply by Terry 'O' on June 30, 2009 at 10:30am: I do wonder if Roxy actually recorded this as a song, would anyone (critics included) notice?

Besides Roxy enthusiasts like us of course!

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Permalink Reply by Jim on June 30, 2009 at 11:40am: Mmm an interesting point? I know that Harry Chapin went back to one of his stories-- Taxi actually-- and then wrote another song that was a continuance of where that story had left off!

I think that if Ferry went back to the Themes and some of the prose that was in the early work he would find inspirations, memories and sentiments that would maybe set him off on the writing trail again. Maybe he already did that with parts of Frantic?

Would critics recognise the reuse of words or lyrics? Not necessarily so! I can't remember them off hand but there are two Roxy tracks where Andy's Sax play the exact same notes though they sound very different, and another two where one contains synth parts of the other played backwards I think.

By the way the Chapin " Taxi" had some great lines:

" She was going to be an actress
And I was going to learn to fly!
here she was acting Happy
and I go flying in my Taxi-- when I'm stoned!"

Harry also had some other beauties too!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anthony Whiteoak on June 30, 2009 at 4:31pm: Jim are you in a position to put this to Bryan? I mean do you have your ear on the inside of Roxy? Is there more going on than meets the eye, you do seem to be in the know.

Have we met before in a past life or is all of this deja vu?

I'll think I'll toddle off before I sound too much like Johnny Depp.

Don't worry I'll be ok in a hour or so

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Permalink Reply by Jim on June 30, 2009 at 4:50pm: Anthony-- you do make me laugh! I have absolutely no inside info on Bryan or Roxy other what I eke out of the news etc and read from books and retain in the darke recesses of what passes for a mind.

I have never met any of the Band or ever been in any position to even be in close proximity! I have no real idea what is going on at all-- just garner what information is out there and go from there.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Whiteoak on June 30, 2009 at 5:03pm: Oh well Jim it was worth a try, I think I'm ok now, God knows sometimes I go over the top it must be all this waiting.

I am all there or here really, wherever that is.

Honest

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Permalink Reply by Terry 'O' on June 30, 2009 at 4:45pm: Wasn't San Simeon a continuation of IEDHAH? I'm sure I read somewhere it had extra verses that were not used in the FYP sessions.

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Permalink Reply by Jim on June 30, 2009 at 4:54pm: Yea San Simeon was made up of at least some spare verses from Dreamhome Heartache. Clearly he has cut and pasted some of what was left over from years before, and it was this I was referring to when I said that maybe he had already returned to the old works and get something going from there.

In terms of Lyrics I think that Frantic is quite a strong album. Personally I love the story in Fool for Love-- the lyrics and melody are a wee underated gem!!!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Terry 'O' on June 30, 2009 at 5:03pm: I agree, Fool For Love was an opportunity missed, this MOR version is weak and I always feel Colin Goode has been responsible for some of Ferry's recent (Dylanesque) arrangements. Fool For Love is a brilliant Ferry composition, the centre section from 1.45 is pure classic Ferry. Still gives me shivers, even if it's for just 20 seconds.

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Permalink Reply by Jim on June 30, 2009 at 10:24pm: I wonder if it is the kind of track that will revisited--- in a less clinical fashion --- at sometime in the future? It has all the ingredients to be a pacier Chance meeting yet as reflective as Song for Europe. Wonder what a Roxy version would sound like?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Anthony Whiteoak on June 30, 2009 at 4:08pm: At the moment Terry I wouldn't mind what they record, mind you not wanting to let anything go to my head- as if- if Bryan makes me an offer I'll pop round for a cuppa and take the chance to view all that art which festoons his walls. Not having a head for business do you think I could get a 50 percent deal on royalties and a few concert tickets?

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