Another
Record by Genesis
The
complication is meant to be the aspect that provides a bit more meat to the
mill. Its intended to add complexity and maybe switch things up a little bit
from the straight forward. Last time we had walruses, this time.. It’s “Another
Record” by Genesis.
Anyway, the
lyrics..
It's
funny you know,
'Cos there's an old rock 'n' roller
He's got nowhere to go.
Did you ever think of taking him in?
Somebody help him, somebody please.
Put another record on
'Cos he likes that song.
It's funny you know,
Ooh he never done nothing, done nobody wrong,
Did he think about changing his name,
But I'm gonna tell him it's the same old game.
Put another record on
Round and round and round and around - oh
Ah - see him smile.
Well lately I've seen him
Walking down the street, kinda moving his feet,
Everyone I know looks the other way
Somebody help him, somebody say -
Put another record on
Round and round and round and around - oh
Ah - see him smile.
It's funny you know,
'Cos there's an old rock 'n' roller
He's got nowhere to go.
Did you ever think of taking him in?
Somebody help him, somebody please.
Just put another record on
'Cos there's an old rock 'n' roller
He's got nowhere to go.
Did you ever think of taking him in?
Somebody help him, somebody please.
Put another record on
'Cos he likes that song.
It's funny you know,
Ooh he never done nothing, done nobody wrong,
Did he think about changing his name,
But I'm gonna tell him it's the same old game.
Put another record on
Round and round and round and around - oh
Ah - see him smile.
Well lately I've seen him
Walking down the street, kinda moving his feet,
Everyone I know looks the other way
Somebody help him, somebody say -
Put another record on
Round and round and round and around - oh
Ah - see him smile.
It's funny you know,
'Cos there's an old rock 'n' roller
He's got nowhere to go.
Did you ever think of taking him in?
Somebody help him, somebody please.
Just put another record on
Alright.
This cements the ‘old adventurer’ thing I was growing into earlier. Another
sensation of a guy past his prime ‘old rock and roller, he’s got nowhere to go’
who is trying to get by. The burnt out wrecks of past heroism and adventure,
left to molder.
Since I’m a
pedant and a weirdo though.. Records can also represent histories and
documents. What if our hero past his prime, who is moldering in this crappy
place knows something important? Something vital. Like what the combination is
to a vault, or who the remaining illegitimate heir to a kingdom is?
He’s the
only one who knows. And he’s practically insensate. Maybe senile. Or maybe he’s
lost in his past, trapped in nostalgia and forced to reminisce himself to
death?
Maybe that’s
what our villain is up to. Making the cast off elder heroes of other ages waste
away in his lotus eater machine of their past glories until they die.
Put another
record on, indeed.
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