VCR Days - bonus track

The VCR plays
Remember those dark days
Of pay phones & tangled-up cords
Those Walkman cassettes
That everyone had to get
The strip malls where we hooked up, looking jaded & bored

Marathon MTV
Soothed us into a sound sleep
With visions of veejays & V-shaped guitars
We’d wake up in the sky
Wondering when, where or why
The bombs started falling like nuclear stars

CHORUS
Take me back (not too far), get away (it’s too far)*
If memory’s meant to betray me
Is it real (yes, it was), do I feel (no one does)
The exit is closing in fast on the freeway
Through purple rain I’m the king of pain
& I cosmically roam
I’m a talking head with no regrets
Is anyone home?

Remember our fling
With Cusack’s Say Anything,
Boom boxes held over our heads
Could the right song convince
Anyone then or ever since
To not rip their ex-boy- or girlfriends’ T-shirts to shreds

Well, the future is here
Did we know it was so near
Our wasted days fading out into black light
Photos airbrushed & blurred
Like the music we thought we heard
Blasting from Trans Ams or lost in the night

repeat CHORUS

Watch for the light on the hills overhead
Descent of the mothership shielded with lead
Blinded by science & searching the night
Emmanuel Lewis in radiant light
Calling his flock to awake

last CHORUS

Hounds of love
Hand in glove
Lips are sealed
What’s revealed
Chaka Khan
Lennon’s gone
Tears for fears
No one hears
Like a prayer
I will dare
XTC
OMD
Hand in hand
Neverland
Tylenol
That is all

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*backing vox in 2nd & 3rd chorus:
press & play/let me stay
hit rewind/please be kind

future's here/much too near
torn to shreds/no regrets