Spaceball Ricochet

The Title itself refers to a comment made by a child that lived in the flat below Marc. The boy was full of energy and running around in his flat and literally bouncing of the walls. Marc asked him why and he said that he had just got some new “Spaceball Boots” as opposed to baseball boots.

The imagined that he was leaping through space when in reality he was bouncing of the walls of a flat in Hackney

It makes a quite neat existential metaphor for someone that is trapped inside an inadequate body;

“i know i'm small but i enjoy living anyway”

That cant get a girl that’s out of his league

“she is a changeless angel she's a city it's a pity that i'm like me”

One of my favourite Bolan Songs

I hear the 5th stanza differently:

Deep in my heart

There's a house

That can hold

[Just about] all of you

I used to wonder if the song title was a reference to the video game Pong.

Did Marc Bolan play early video games? Lol

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Does anybody know exactly what this song is about? I think it might be about pinball, or osmething.. "spaceball ricochet.."

yes!

I think this song is about a conflict the narrator has with himself. He says 'I know I'm small but I enjoy living anyway' but then he says 'it's a pity that I'm like me'. He seems to not know what to make of his life, or even of life in general ( what does life mean?) . He keeps thinking about this ( all he can do is think about it/play the spaceball ricochet). He thinks too much and should just get on with his life rather than spend all his time dwelling on things - he knows this but just can't help it -thus all he can do is play the spaceball ricochet. I don't kniow if all that will make sense to anyone reading it, but that's what I think yhis song is about. It's a really sweet, reflective song.

the bit about buying a car refers to an old (but kind) cadillac that he bought from Ringo Starr but he never collected it (hence it disappeared)