| Thomas Dolby – Cloudburst at Shingle Street Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| In the third verse, the singer is "a cork in the ocean, bobbing in the North Sea" and rids himself of "this vest of plaster, these boots of concrete", which are worse than useless to a cork trying to bob. I've always thought the last line was not "Return to Mulberry" but "Return to Alberich", he being the evil dwarf in Wagner's Ring Cycle who both creates and curses the Rheingold, so that when the gods steal it to make the Ring of the Nibelungs and build Asgard, they doom themselves to eventual Gotterdämerung. It fits in with the album's theme of Britain's decline in the 20th century, and this song's placement at the album's end. | |
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