For Mr. Thomas - Robin Williamson and Van Morrison
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- For Mr. Thomas performed by Robin Williamson and Van Morrison. Recorded live at Loughborough University, September 18th, 1987
"For Mr. Thomas"
From faded newsprint used to wrap a fish
Inscrutably the muse selects your face
As I sit drinking famously in an Irish bar
Five thousand miles and thirty years away
With the usual ceremonial you were crowned one night
King of the field where doctors nail the cows
To make of the cock's quill the rights of language
And the pricking heart a sword against the hours
Let smirking scholars writhe in their favourite bondage
And hold you plaintiff to the charge of art
Exhibit A: he falls on legendary lines
Singing mother I don't want a pain here in my heart
The judge in me sucks eggs and jerks the sacred meat
But the boy in me still dreams in Milk Wood town
Like two provincial bastards playing the galleries
I hold your photo to a mirror upside down
And as bacon wafts through hungry streets, your ghost pervades
Just like an old ex-boxer aged twenty two
Staged-up like Falstaff or the wild welsh Rimbaud
You'd laugh to see the monograms they make of you
Ah, Mr. Thomas let us ramble through the midnight fair
Let us throw old bottles at the ferris wheel
Let us paint library on the library let us raid the moonlight
Let us steal whatever we are supposed to steal
Let us watch while the days grow daily more mundane
That rough God go riding with his shears
Hack wide the belly of the swollen mountains
And rip molten heroes forth from their furious tears
Oh, Mr. Thomas, oh, Mr. Thomas,
Let us steal whatever we're supposed to steal
Mr. Thomas, oh, Mr. Thomas,
Why don't we feel whatever we're supposed to feel
Oh, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Thomas,
Why don't we feel whatever we're supposed to feel
Oh, Mr. Thomas let us ramble through the midnight
Let us throw bottles at the ferris wheel
Let us paint library on the library let us raid the moonlight
Let us steal whatever we're supposed to steal
Van and Robin.....Please get together and make an album for 2020......it`s not too late.
Give us something to cheer us up, we look to people like you.
van and robin they are magic amazing i think its a dream
What a great find. Love this! I'm an old fan of ISB. Amazing to hear this.
Wonderful to hear this, thanks!
Thank you so much. I did not even know that this existed, let alone that somebody would have the foresight to record it so that I could listen to it in Australia thirty five years later
'Had no idea, but, to think about it,
someplace in between
Astral Weeks and Invocation,
It's a perfect fit. Of course.
I really enjoyed this!! :)
Thanks for sharing.
This is pure magic. I love the original version by Robin Williamson and Van's 1987 cover but this one is terrific as well. Too bad the sound quality is bad.
ME,Myself I just would have let Van sing it.
I reckon the beauty of this version comes from the combination of these two different voices.
I love when singers remind me of wolves howling.