A Slippery Mind

Many years ago, whilst I was in a band, I read a short story, by Martin Amis, called ‘The Immortal” (from a book called ‘Einstein’s Monsters’). It inspired the first lyric I ever wrote for the band (“The Immortals”) called, unimaginatively, ‘The Immortal’….

23 Years later, I have found myself returning to the subject again as I embark on a new musical venture in March, with a new lyric evolving from the same story. After much noodling and scribbling, this is my take on the same tale, from a different angle.

Enjoy….

SUPERMAN DIVINE

Losing track of time

feeling numb

my mind is racing

These machines make noise

radiation

can’t affect me

Here I stand

Superman Divine

shielded from the eyes

that hunt me down

I can hide

safe behind my blinds

knowing that they won’t

find me…

Books of endless words

litanies of

wasted thinking

sleep brings no reprieve

from the clanging chimes

of this machinery

Can you see

Superman Divine

dead behind the eyes

that see you now

I believe

at the end of times

in the end

that I will be here

Break bread with me

Drink the wine

Drink the wine

then turn your face

to the sun

one last time

Here I am

hiding from the crime

that haunts me

I must live alone

in a world

that must desert me…..

This is a fantastic song, from a fantastic duo, from a fantastic album.

Trust SlipperyMe – he knows these things.