| Levellers – The Boatman Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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At Glastonbury 1992, Simon sung a different second verse: If I could choose the life I pleased, then I would be a spaceman Take LSD and Ecstasy and I'll be off my face man But all this ecstasy Does strange things to me If I could choose the life I pleased then I would be a spaceman |
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| Levellers – Men-An-Tol Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Written by Simon Friend about the "men an tol", which literally means "stone with a hole" - it's a small stone on the Cornish coast. Apparently Simon was walking by the men an tol while on holiday and felt a sudden desire to run into the countryside. Later, in his hotel room, he compared the kind of feeling he got from the ancient stone and beautiful countryside to the kind of misery you see on the news. The result is this song. | |
| Levellers – Julie Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is a song written by bassist Jeremy Cunningham about a girl that he knew in his days as a drug addict. He would occasionally buy heroin from her but felt sad for the kind of life that she'd condemned herself to (he's now clean/tea-total) | |
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