25 June 2024

Music Monday: From the Other Side of the World

I may have posted this song as a Music Monday before, but I was just reminded of it the other day, so here's a Music...Tuesday? When Simon and I were first...dating? Emailing? Whatever, he did what any good GenX man would do and made me a mix...tape/CD/playlist of songs by British artists that I needed to hear. They were all marvelous but one of them will forever make me think of walking through the Atlanta airport on my way to visit him for the first time. All I need to hear is the sound of the dogs barking at the very beginning and I'm right back there, about to fly internationally for the first time to visit this Yorkshire lad who was so very important to me. "I blow you a kiss, it should reach you tomorrow, as it flies from the other side of the world..." Enjoy.


Fugitive Motel
by Elbow

Lost in a lullaby
Side of the road
Melt in a memory
Slide in a solitude

Not 'til I can read by the moon
Am I going anywhere
Not 'til I can read by the moon

I blow you a kiss
It should reach you tomorrow
As it flies from the other side of the world

From my room in my fugitive motel
Somewhere in the dust bowl
Yeah it flies from the other side of the world

I'm tired, I said
You always look tired, she said

I'm admired, I said
You always look tired, she said

Not 'til I can read by the moon
I'm not going anywhere
Not 'til I can read by the moon

I blow you a kiss
It should reach you tomorrow
As it flies from the other side of the world

From my room in my fugitive motel
Somewhere in the dust bowl
Somewhere in the dust bowl
It flies from the other side of the world

The curtains stay closed
But everyone knows
You hear through the walls in this place
Cigarette holes for every lost soul
To give up the ghost in this place

Give me strength
Give me wings
Give me strength
Give me wings

I blow you a kiss
It should reach you tomorrow
Reach you tomorrow
It flies from the other side of the world

From my room in my fugitive motel
Somewhere in the dust bowl
Somewhere in the dust bowl

It flies from the other side of the world
The other side of the world
The other side of the world

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