First of all, the lyrics as printed here are both wrong in places and incomplete for not naming the towns listed as symbols of Pete's imagined England (and, yes, must echo that it is England, not Britain). William Blake (who had such an influence on Jim Morrisson) portrayed Albion in his poems as a sort of mystical England, the new jerusalem. Doherty is tapping into this vision. I like the song a lot but some parts feel laboured (where the hell in England is there a queue outside a disused power station?)
Still, it stands well as a name check of a miscellany of the young, bored and working-class English experience.
Hope Pete doesn't do a Morrisson.
laboured???how can you say that? we have already established it's a poem. not everything in a poem has to be entirely literal. there may be no queues but there atre certinly disused power stations. yes the lyrics are incomplete but if you are a real Pete fan you'll know that he changes the place names every time he sings the song. so for johnnymac to put '...' is fair enough, because if he put the place names from one version they would be incorrect according to another.
laboured???how can you say that? we have already established it's a poem. not everything in a poem has to be entirely literal. there may be no queues but there atre certinly disused power stations. yes the lyrics are incomplete but if you are a real Pete fan you'll know that he changes the place names every time he sings the song. so for johnnymac to put '...' is fair enough, because if he put the place names from one version they would be incorrect according to another.
First of all, the lyrics as printed here are both wrong in places and incomplete for not naming the towns listed as symbols of Pete's imagined England (and, yes, must echo that it is England, not Britain). William Blake (who had such an influence on Jim Morrisson) portrayed Albion in his poems as a sort of mystical England, the new jerusalem. Doherty is tapping into this vision. I like the song a lot but some parts feel laboured (where the hell in England is there a queue outside a disused power station?) Still, it stands well as a name check of a miscellany of the young, bored and working-class English experience. Hope Pete doesn't do a Morrisson.
laboured???how can you say that? we have already established it's a poem. not everything in a poem has to be entirely literal. there may be no queues but there atre certinly disused power stations. yes the lyrics are incomplete but if you are a real Pete fan you'll know that he changes the place names every time he sings the song. so for johnnymac to put '...' is fair enough, because if he put the place names from one version they would be incorrect according to another.
laboured???how can you say that? we have already established it's a poem. not everything in a poem has to be entirely literal. there may be no queues but there atre certinly disused power stations. yes the lyrics are incomplete but if you are a real Pete fan you'll know that he changes the place names every time he sings the song. so for johnnymac to put '...' is fair enough, because if he put the place names from one version they would be incorrect according to another.