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Eastern Bloc (Sequel to "Europa and the Pirate Twins") Lyrics
Here in England it's so green
Martian men can move unseen
Apparatus underground
Monitor the crunching sound
Joey's gone and Georgie's gone
Put their best torn trousers on
Found a crowbar and a drill
Headed for the Berlin Wall
And last night I swear I saw her face
As they stormed the gates of satellite TV ("Europa")
Too bad I don't get News At Ten
'Cause the CNN would tell a different story
Chorus:
Eastern Bloc, Eastern Bloc
You're never gonna break that deadlock
How can I shake that gridlock?
Shell-shock!
Tuning out, tuning in, Europa, Europa
Shine across these waves and rescue me
Loud and clear, through thick and thin, Europa, Europa
Come in, come in, come in, come in, do you read?
Are you receiving me?
So I was fourteen she was twelve
Father travelled, hers as well
Down the beaches hand in hand
Twelfth of never on the sand
And we said we'd be the pirate twins again
In the freezing rain of the Eastern Bloc
And I used to think each time we kissed it was for real
But tonight I feel that the wind has changed
(Repeat Chorus Twice)
Martian men can move unseen
Apparatus underground
Monitor the crunching sound
Put their best torn trousers on
Found a crowbar and a drill
Headed for the Berlin Wall
As they stormed the gates of satellite TV ("Europa")
Too bad I don't get News At Ten
'Cause the CNN would tell a different story
You're never gonna break that deadlock
How can I shake that gridlock?
Shell-shock!
Tuning out, tuning in, Europa, Europa
Shine across these waves and rescue me
Loud and clear, through thick and thin, Europa, Europa
Come in, come in, come in, come in, do you read?
Are you receiving me?
Father travelled, hers as well
Down the beaches hand in hand
Twelfth of never on the sand
In the freezing rain of the Eastern Bloc
And I used to think each time we kissed it was for real
But tonight I feel that the wind has changed
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I absolutely love this song. I loved it before I could understand a lick of the lyrics, I loved it when I started to understand enough of it for it to make more sense to me, I love it now . . . naustalgically, because I lost the CD and the last time I looked for it I found nothing.
Maybe I'll get lucky, I should do another search for it.
Thomas claimed "Europa and the Pirate Twins" was autobiographical. Which begs the question whether this song is a real or imagined sequel.
To the extent that Europa and the Pirate Twins was about a real girl, it seems that she was actually from an Eastern European country. So when the Iron Curtain fell in 1989-91, it's natural that Dolby's thoughts may have turned to her and inspired a sequel. It's a song full of hope after the end of the Cold War: the lines "Joey's gone and Georgie's gone ... found a crowbar and a drill, headed for the Berlin Wall" refer to (Joey) Stalin and (Georgie) Washington (or maybe H.W. Bush), which makes it an odd sort of spiritual relative of Jesus Jones' "Right Here, Right Now." Too bad the world only woke up from history for a few short years before getting right back to sleep.
There's also a lot of personification of Europe itself in Dolby's songs (see also "The Flat Earth") and Europa herself may be more broadly interpreted as representing the continent reunited after decades of division.