Brainstorm

You're safe and you're warm
Got a break from the storm
And it's visiting time in the past
And you've just reached the part
Where you're losing your heart
And your spirit is leaving you fast
And then the storm blows a scream
And it crashes your dream
Like a fist through a curtain of glass
And there's a giant of darkness
Surrounds you with fright
And the only way out
Is to stand up and fight
And so you shout, scream
Give me back my dream
I need one to get through the day
If it’s lost and if it’s gone
I won’t keep hanging on
And the storm can just blow me away
Blow me away
It’s a long way to dawn
And you got to get warm
'Cause you're shivering deeply inside
So you turn on the light
Try to burn up the night
But your spirit has run off to hide
There's nowhere to run
So you wait for the sun
Nowhere to run
You wait for the sun
You shout, scream
Give me back my dream
I need one to get through the day
If it’s lost and if it’s gone
I won’t keep hanging on
And the storm can just blow me away
Blow me away
So you shout, scream

 

Upper: Marble carved mask of an old man, Greek (date tbd), Roman-Germanic Museum, Cologne


Lower: Limestone carved face on corbel, British (15th century), Victoria and AlbertMuseum, London

Song--- Brainstorm -- Kevin Ayers * 
 

* I’ve heard an excellent earlyversion of this troubling song, quite close to the finished product inarrangement, that was recorded by the artist absolutely solo (voice; allinstruments) using a jury-rigged old-fashioned telephone answeringmachine as a recording device.  AsMichael Gambon (playing King George V)  said in The King’s Speech : “Easy when you knowhow.”

For Mike Kelley, Ollie Halsall and John Schumaker:   RIP