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A place I left in time
By Astronauts inspired and the North London Line

lyrics

Seven long hot summers passed
As seven rolling vistas
Seven prides for seven kings
And seven sleeping sisters
73 to Newington Green
Dalston Junction in between
Clapton Canonbury Camden Town
Homerton Hoxton and Hackney Downs
Given the dream I’ve been living in seems such a surreal world
I was hoping that I’d never have to get out and live in the real world

Back to back living day to day
In the love of the common people
Who we never quite trust as they hate our guts
Because the papers say we’re evil
Nosey neighbours keeping watch
Nervous twitch as you change the lock
Safe as houses safe in bed
All fall down with an eighth of Leb
Charity chips and living in skips exciting
Cigarette butts on the tube train floor inviting

So what’s your occupation? What’s your name?
What are your aspirations?
High Court Judge Crown Prince Prime Minister?
Where’s your indignation? Where’s your shame?
Status flag and nation?
Three white doves on a black bend sinister

Hither page come stand by me
And if thou know’st it telling
Yonder peasant who is he
On the overground from Welwyn
He’s the Prince of Peace my liege
Of iambic verse and minor keys
Bard of Hertford come to reign
Southbound platform Moorgate train
So the unfathomable soul of punk with his carrier bags and flares
Opens a night of three chord thrash to a room that’s not prepared

Travellers want to use my bath
And can they run a wire
To hook up the truck til winter’s past
Smoking round the fire
They’re telling me how I should live on the road
Get off my back and dump my load
City living’s not for me
As they shit in my toilet drink my tea
They’re telling me how they fought with the pigs at the Beanfield
Telling me I need to get out and go walk in the green fields

I’ve got 5-4-3-2-1
Eastbound train on a Broad Street run
Worked empty stock from Croxley Green
In Richmond, Twickenham, Kew and Sheen
They spectral dance before the dawn
Mushroom-picking on rich men’s lawns
B4 headcode Platform 5
Unlocked and loaded, third rail live
We’ll watch the workers coming home
As westwards wend their weary bones
As we race against the tidal flow
Through Willesden Junction Camden Road
Signal failures, points and delays
Sign on the wall says have an awayday
Bands in the park for anarchist May Day
Every second Thursday is going to be a pay day

So signing day comes round again
I’m bleary-eyed and yawning
Booth 3b at 9am
And I sleepwalk through the morning
Claims and papers signs and forms
UB40 roached and torn
Personal Issue and a bulletproof screen
Scented Giro pink and green
‘I am an angry passionate soul crying out in this tortured mediocrity’
Head up my arse looking back down the hole is my accommodation with your bureaucracy

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from The Power Behind The Throne, released June 7, 2023

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Since 1984 Blyth Power have been playing and recording original music, which although regarded by many as fitting into the folk rock catergory goes so much further. Based around the lyrics of songwriter Joseph Porter, the band's sound is unique, and there is an atmosphere to Blyth Power that adds a depth to the music, and makes them more than just another pop group. ... more

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