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Hollow Ponds Lyrics
(Children Talking)
Chill on the hollow ponds
Set Sail by a kid
In the heat wave that hit us all, 1976
I felt the percussion
The green man had gone
Half my road was now a motorway, 1991
I was by the Black Sea
Two hours in time
Spiny urchins and a new school bell, 1979
Changed into Lakeside
In January (Hollow Ponds)
Modern life was sprayed onto a wall, in 1993
Where the horses and passing trains
A pentangle reveals
In the green woods where you walked with me
A ship on hollow ponds was filled
Up with the dreams (It turned into a dream)
We shared on our CDs (We watched on our CDs)
Every moment now and everyday
Every moment now and everyday
Set Sail by a kid
In the heat wave that hit us all, 1976
The green man had gone
Half my road was now a motorway, 1991
Two hours in time
Spiny urchins and a new school bell, 1979
In January (Hollow Ponds)
Modern life was sprayed onto a wall, in 1993
A pentangle reveals
In the green woods where you walked with me
A ship on hollow ponds was filled
We shared on our CDs (We watched on our CDs)
Every moment now and everyday
Every moment now and everyday
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This song seems to mark the passing of time with a few snapshots from Damon Albarn's life.
The Hollow Ponds are in Leytonstone, London, where Albarn lived as a child. You can still hire boats there.
The next line refers to the development of the A12 dual carriageway through Leytonstone, which faced massive protests as it cuts right through the built-up area and prompted a lot of redevelopment, including at the Green Man roundabout.
By 1991, when this happened, he had moved on, grown up, and was now seeing that what he remembered as a child had changed completely, which seems to isolate your memories more, and gives the song a haunting quality.
There are other references to these changes in the lines about CDs to LCDs, horses to trains, and his own career progression seeing Modern Life Is Rubbish sprayed onto a wall and then using that for the album title which pushed Blur further into the mainstream.