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Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Stares across the hall
At the pictures on the wall
Of hieroglyphic scrawl
And no ones cares at all
That he is waiting
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Walks on down the street
Leather boots, leather coat
Gloves of shining leather
Sidewalks and gutters and freezing weather
Empty streets full of no one
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Plays with tiny children
On his way home from work
He doesn't wear a smirk
He can't revive it
Having different kinds of fun
With fourteen ancient nuns
Under circling sun
And his wonderful collection of guns
He's the top man in the language department
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
At the pictures on the wall
Of hieroglyphic scrawl
And no ones cares at all
That he is waiting
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
Leather boots, leather coat
Gloves of shining leather
Sidewalks and gutters and freezing weather
Empty streets full of no one
Drinks water from the faucet
Man with Golden Helmet
Drinks water from the faucet
On his way home from work
He doesn't wear a smirk
He can't revive it
Having different kinds of fun
With fourteen ancient nuns
Under circling sun
And his wonderful collection of guns
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The man with golden helmet was a Rembrandt print that hung in the hall above a drinking fountain , just outside the English room, ( top man in language department). Have to assume that the portrait subject was opposite a wall with more art, ( Egyptian?) Heiroglyphic?, Will take a punt that all scenes mentioned were inspired by school day memories, . The piano and guitar in this track speak volumes for an under appreciated band.
@Kmac155 You got it
@Kmac155 You got it
@Kmac155 Exactly. People throw so much personal meaning onto a simple song about a school hallway. But you are correct
@Kmac155 Exactly. People throw so much personal meaning onto a simple song about a school hallway. But you are correct
Another pompous song from Birdman. Trying to sound deep and intellectual, but only sounding like a baby trying to make a sentence and failing. Corny and unbearable. Radio Birdman were an extremely important band for that time in Australian music history. Their songs were very powerful and urgent. They were more hits than misses and, unfortunately for me, this is a surefire of the latter department
Plays with tiny children On his way home from work
This line's pretty disturbing... Great song, very Doorsish
@wildaboutyou I can't see how it's at all 'disturbing' to innocently play with children. It's far from being disturbing at all
@wildaboutyou I can't see how it's at all 'disturbing' to innocently play with children. It's far from being disturbing at all
very sci-fi - maybe about the cold war. benn intrigued about the meaning of this song since i first heard it in 1981...
Apparently Deniz Tek wrote it whilst at school. I went to the same high school as him (35 years later) and the painting of the same name is still there. I have my own theories about the song relating to a teacher who was the head of classical languages (From what I can work out, he was there in the seventies till the nineties... could be earlier back to when Tek was there in '67, but I don't really have anyway of knowing). It came out in the late 90s that this teacher was a pedophile who had been taking...
Apparently Deniz Tek wrote it whilst at school. I went to the same high school as him (35 years later) and the painting of the same name is still there. I have my own theories about the song relating to a teacher who was the head of classical languages (From what I can work out, he was there in the seventies till the nineties... could be earlier back to when Tek was there in '67, but I don't really have anyway of knowing). It came out in the late 90s that this teacher was a pedophile who had been taking advantage of young boys for years, he committed suicide soon after. I really could be stretching it but the line 'Plays with tiny children on his way home from work' and 'He's the top man in the language department' made me think of him straight away. If he was around when Tek was at the school, and had something to do with the school's rifle shooting team ('And his wonderful collection of guns') I'd be convinced.
The chances are I'm just reading into it too much though.
@dogbox Its origin is from a Rembrandt painting of a man wearing a helmet in the University hallway Trek was attending. It was by a 'bubbler' where he'd get a drink. Simple as that
@dogbox Its origin is from a Rembrandt painting of a man wearing a helmet in the University hallway Trek was attending. It was by a 'bubbler' where he'd get a drink. Simple as that
"He's the top man in the language department"... Noam Chomsky anyone?
@gabriel190 I see your connection, but Chomsky is more in the area of semantics, which uses language, but is not the same as a basic 'English' class. I see Languages as English, nothing more
@gabriel190 I see your connection, but Chomsky is more in the area of semantics, which uses language, but is not the same as a basic 'English' class. I see Languages as English, nothing more