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Memory of a Free Festival Lyrics
The Children of the summer's end
Gathered in the dampened grass,
We played Our songs and felt the London sky
Resting on our hands
It was God's land.
It was ragged and naive.
It was Heaven.
Touch, We touched the very soul
Of holding each and every life.
We claimed the very source of joy ran through.
It didn't, but it seemed that way.
I kissed a lot of people that day.
Oh, to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon,
To paint that love upon a white balloon,
And fly it from the toppest top of all the tops that man has pushed beyond his
brain.
Satoria must be something just the same.
We scanned the skies with rainbow eyes and saw machines of every shape and size.
We talked with tall Venusians passing through.
And Peter tried to climb aboard but the Captain shook his head
And away they soared,
Climbing through the ivory vibrant cloud.
Someone passed some bliss among the crowd.
And We walked back to the road, unchained.
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
Gathered in the dampened grass,
We played Our songs and felt the London sky
Resting on our hands
It was God's land.
It was ragged and naive.
It was Heaven.
Of holding each and every life.
We claimed the very source of joy ran through.
It didn't, but it seemed that way.
I kissed a lot of people that day.
To paint that love upon a white balloon,
And fly it from the toppest top of all the tops that man has pushed beyond his
brain.
Satoria must be something just the same.
We talked with tall Venusians passing through.
And Peter tried to climb aboard but the Captain shook his head
And away they soared,
Climbing through the ivory vibrant cloud.
Someone passed some bliss among the crowd.
And We walked back to the road, unchained.
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
"The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and We're Gonna Have a Party."
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Submitted by
saturnine On May 02, 2004
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The song refers to a free concert and festival that David and friends put on at Beckenham in London on Saturday 16th August 1969. It was around the time his Father passed away. Friends of David's report him being in a bad mood (Understandably) that day and were surprised when he recorded the song about it. It was around this time he started to go out with Angie.
Satori, zen enlightenment, not "Satoria", whatever that is.
I think this song captures the wondrous feeling of hanging out with your mates at a summer festival from a distant youth so well. Magical.
Is it really "unchained" - or does he say "unchanged"?
@imrazor tou are right, it is unchanged. Bowie is not Eddie Van Halen.
@imrazor tou are right, it is unchanged. Bowie is not Eddie Van Halen.
“Sun Machine”????? This lyric is Song Machine.
i think this is about a drug orgy but then theres the slight possiblity that i am absolutely stupidly wrong.. yet i'm honored to be the first person to comment this song and humor appart i'd like to add that this is one of my more beloved hymns and damn it i don't know why,
I think it sounds so good because he really felt whatever he's trying to say. I mean that he felt, deep in his bones, was the experience he's expressing in the song and that is why the music resonates, he was expressing his truth, in other words, and one's truth always resonates, comes through, even though we can't understand many times. We can feel it, what they felt, in a way, in the way it infiltrates our emotional wiring, or whatever. If it is some universal truth an artist has expressed, and we can only feel the message, as...
I think it sounds so good because he really felt whatever he's trying to say. I mean that he felt, deep in his bones, was the experience he's expressing in the song and that is why the music resonates, he was expressing his truth, in other words, and one's truth always resonates, comes through, even though we can't understand many times. We can feel it, what they felt, in a way, in the way it infiltrates our emotional wiring, or whatever. If it is some universal truth an artist has expressed, and we can only feel the message, as we grow and hear the song/work in new ways, we can eventually learn of the truth they were expressing, I believe. And besides learn many other things maybe the artist, even, had no idea he/she was saying. fun stuff!