To write a cathedral, I'll need a ball-point pen
It'll sound like 'Common People' sung by Christopher Wren
On an upright piano with nice, narrow keys
in a Glaswegian chapel or a Parisian library
And as I sing I watch you diving
into a swimming pool that shines like a screen
And I call out, 'isn't this living?'
And I call out, 'isn't this living?'
And you call back, 'Jim, dear, it's living'
And you call back, 'Jim, dear, it's living the dream'
I see my family in an ugly cemetery
Two of them have been crying, two have shovels at the ready
And I'd been lying if I said I'd foreseen this
I'd prefer to burn my body in Varanasi
And as I sing I watch you driving
into a swimming pool that shines like a screen
And I call out, 'isn't this living?'
And I call out, 'isn't this living?'
And you call back, 'Jim, dear, it's living'
And you call back, 'Jim, dear, it's living the dream'
I wanted, I wanted kids getting into good schools
Following, breaking all the new rules
Scoring goals, leading roles
Plimsolls, no holes
in a car with nice curves
A wife with a perfect serve
Just like the Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973
Then Christopher Wren would smile down on me
credits
released July 28, 2021
Music by Andrew Pearson.
Words by Hamish Hawk.
supported by 8 fans who also own “The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973”
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
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