Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I have noticed over the past few weeks that I seem to be getting, not second chances exactly but times to make right wrongs. I have stated over the past little while that my one regret is Briary Street. Well, it’s still a regret but my luck seems to be with me. Not in that I’ve had another chance to say goodbye or whatever but another chance to say ‘oh Hello, and how are you doing?’
It’s something that seems to be happening in specific and general lately and was particularly typified by my banter last night with the Naiad.
All the pieces within the specific web of my life seem to be coming together in really beautiful ways. Dancing spider-lights nothing this is a web of crystalline sparkly light that shimmers in the darkness. Sure, next week it’ll be something else, but right now, my gods it’s so beautiful.
Theres forty shillings for to pay,
I’ll dance over these hills and far away,
Beat your heart and beat this drum,
If you’re following then come,
But I’ll be dancing all this day,
Over those hills and far away.
Abused: Nena – 99 Red Balloons, John Tams – Over The Hills And Far Away, George Farquhar – Over The Hills And Far Away
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we’ve got.
Set them free at the break of dawn
‘Til one by one, they were gone.
It’s forty shillings on the drum
To those who volunteer to come,
To ‘list and fight the foe today
Over the Hills and far away.
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, Something’s out there.
Floating in the autumn sky.
99 red balloons go by.
Through smoke and fire and shot and shell,
And to the very walls of hell,
But we shall stand and we shall stay
Over the hills and far away
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
99 red balloons.
floating in the autumn sky.
Panic bells, it’s red alert.
There’s something here from somewhere else.
Now I may travel far from Spain
A part of me shall still remain,
And you are with me night and day
and Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
The web ignored springs to life.
Opens up one eager eye.
Focusing it on the sky.
Where 99 red balloons go by.
Then fall in lads behind the drum
With colours blazing like the sun.
Along the road to come what may
Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
99 Decision Street.
99 magicians meet.
To worry, worry, super-scurry.
Call the troops out in a hurry.
When Evil stalks upon the land
I’ll neither hold nor stay me hand
But fight to win a better day,
Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
This is what we’ve waited for.
This is it boys, here’s the score.
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.
Courage, boys, ’tis one to ten,
But we return all gentlemen
All gentlemen as well as they,
Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
99 Knights of the air
Ride super-high-tech jet fighters
Everyone’s a superhero.
Everyone’s a Captain Kirk.
If I should fall to rise no more,
As many comrades did before,
Ask the pipes and drums to play
Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
These orders to identify.
To clarify and classify.
Scramble in the autumn sky.
As 99 red balloons go by.
Though kings and tyrants come and go
This moving life is all I know
I’ll live to fight another day
Over the hills and far away.
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
99 dreams I have had.
In every one a red balloon.
It’s all over and I’m standing pretty.
In this dust that was a city.
When duty calls me I must go
To stand and face another foe
But part of me will always stray
Over the hills and far away
O’er the hills and o’er the main
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
The queen commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away.
If I could find a souvenier.
Just to prove the world was here.
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.