This seems to be a song about idolizing some faraway place as the solution to the ennui of everyday life: getting older, waiting for the train, sitting there stuck in traffic--although dreaming of a midsize German city as some sort of exotic Shangri-La seems odd to me.
"Henry" and "James" pop up here the same way they did in...well, "Henry and James," with the addition of a Leonard. I wasn't aware of Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin creating the same sort of inter-song mythos the way (Daevid Allen-era) Gong did.
Was there some sort of old story or TV show (or possibly cartoon, given Leonard's line in the chorus) featuring a Henry, James, and occasionally Leonard?
This seems to be a song about idolizing some faraway place as the solution to the ennui of everyday life: getting older, waiting for the train, sitting there stuck in traffic--although dreaming of a midsize German city as some sort of exotic Shangri-La seems odd to me.
"Henry" and "James" pop up here the same way they did in...well, "Henry and James," with the addition of a Leonard. I wasn't aware of Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin creating the same sort of inter-song mythos the way (Daevid Allen-era) Gong did. Was there some sort of old story or TV show (or possibly cartoon, given Leonard's line in the chorus) featuring a Henry, James, and occasionally Leonard?
Silly me. This is a cover of a Thomas Dolby song from 1982, so if anything, Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin's "Henry and James" were inspired by it.
Silly me. This is a cover of a Thomas Dolby song from 1982, so if anything, Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin's "Henry and James" were inspired by it.