歌手: Momus
时长: 03:49
Tape Recorder Man - Momus[00:00:00]
Tape recorder man[00:00:06]
Come all ye rounders if you[00:00:08]
Want to hear the tale[00:00:10]
Of a tape recorder man[00:00:12]
Tape recorder man[00:00:14]
He travelled far and wide[00:00:16]
Through the dusty countryside[00:00:17]
The tape recorder man[00:00:20]
Tape recorder man[00:00:22]
Collecting songs of love [00:00:23]
Collecting songs of blood[00:00:25]
Sometimes songs of evil men[00:00:27]
And sometimes songs of good[00:00:29]
And sing irie aritty ardie and[00:00:31]
Sing irie arrity anne[00:00:33]
Tape recorder man[00:00:37]
He said the age of the machine[00:00:39]
Would make us all the same[00:00:41]
The tape recorder man[00:00:43]
Tape recorder man[00:00:45]
And we should tape record the[00:00:46]
Songs the old men sing[00:00:48]
The tape recorder man[00:00:50]
Tape recorder man[00:00:53]
Because when the old were gone [00:00:54]
There'd be no more songs[00:00:56]
Just mechanical din[00:00:58]
Tape recorder man[00:01:00]
And sing irie aritty ardie[00:01:02]
And sing irie arrity anne[00:01:04]
Tape recorder man[00:01:08]
At a music festival he presented to[00:01:10]
The world some of the folk greats[00:01:13]
Tape recorder man[00:01:16]
Then with a condescending smile [00:01:17]
He introduced us all to[00:01:19]
Some electronic fakes[00:01:21]
Tape recorder man[00:01:24]
Saying 'The old folks don't need[00:01:25]
Gimmicks to make the music new[00:01:26]
But here's a group of college[00:01:29]
Kids who apparently do[00:01:31]
And sing irie aritty ardie and[00:01:33]
Sing irie arrity anne[00:01:35]
Tape recorder man[00:01:39]
And he left the stage to seek some nerdy[00:01:41]
Boffin geeks who sounded like the Pogues[00:01:43]
Singing like the BeeGees dancing[00:01:49]
Like freaks playing modular Moogs[00:01:51]
I met him in the dressing room[00:01:56]
At the end of the show[00:01:58]
I said you used to be my hero[00:02:00]
But tonight you've fallen low[00:02:02]
And sing irie aritty ardie[00:02:04]
And sing irie arrity anne[00:02:06]
Tape recorder man[00:02:10]
I said tape recorder man[00:02:11]
Damn your Memorex[00:02:14]
What about innovation man [00:02:16]
What about art and sex[00:02:18]
He couldn't share my point of view [00:02:19]
And he freely said so[00:02:21]
So me and the tape recorder[00:02:23]
Man quickly came to blows[00:02:25]
I hit out at his shoulder where[00:02:27]
His tape recorder hung[00:02:29]
It slipped to the floor with a crash [00:02:31]
The strap must've been undone[00:02:33]
And sing irie aritty ardie[00:02:35]
And sing irie arrity anne[00:02:37]
Tape recorder man[00:02:41]
It exploded like a bomb from[00:02:43]
The first world war[00:02:45]
And seven spools of folk[00:02:47]
Recordings rolled across the floor[00:02:48]
A random burst of yodelling[00:02:50]
Rubbed up against the heads[00:02:52]
That woozy crazy spool was[00:02:54]
Like John Cage or Varese[00:02:56]
I cried 'Tape recorder man [00:02:58]
This I won't forget[00:03:00]
This is folk music concrete[00:03:02]
And sing irie aritty ardie and[00:03:06]
Sing irie arrity anne[00:03:08]
Tape recorder man[00:03:12]
Tape recorder man[00:03:20]
Tape recorder man[00:03:28]
And sing irie aritty ardie[00:03:29]
And sing irie arrity anne[00:03:31]
Tape recorder man[00:03:35]
Tape recorder man[00:03:43]