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"A Lennonist Student is something to be" is what all the adolescent valley themes in this allegro resolve into.

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Scream.

Angel years
Golden nights
Young Running Shadow...
Just watch me now.

When Lennon was singing of flowers and love
And the planets of Holst was in aquarius
I was with Pikes in the school corridors.
A child of the 60s was something to be.

When Floyd were with Emily and Ummagumm- ah
And I was Pike in his aquarium
Miss Bitcham taught grammar; Miss Whiplash taught sums.
A child of the 60s was something to be.

*

Born To Run In Abersychan speeding cars with Mary Jane
A chance of that would be a fine thing, I was walking in the rain
To the dance at Croesyceiliog to take my chance with Hotlips Jones.
I dance like Jagger, hips akimbo, that's Ok if you're with the Stones.

Killing time's a teenage pastime
Bored to tears for years and years
The you find your lifetime's killer
Mortgaged to a straight career.

*

Uniforms are worn and torn and corn and porn and every morn with heads all shorn we swarm upon the school.
The old school tie will never die for she and I at throat and thigh are tied for life by Dai the Stupid Rule.
His uniforms's an overall, his mind's a blinking traffic light.
If he's the model of our age I hope I die with Megan on Friday night.
Uniforms are worn and torn and corn and porn and every morn with heads all shorn we swarm upon the school.
The old school tie will never die for she and I at throat and thigh are tied for life by Dai the Stupid Rule.
His uniforms's an overall, his mind's a blinking traffic light.
If he's the model of our age I hope I die with Megan on Friday night. (Yeee!)
Old School Tie.
Let go Dai.
Die the death die.
Always say die Dai.
Die Dai!

*

With a working class hero who didn't feel fine.
In a coal-shadowed valley where nothing was mine.
I was studying hard to es caper the job line.
A Lennonist Student was something to be.
A Lennonist Student was something to be.

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from 'Hiraeth' - Symphony Number 1 in Coal Minor, released January 1, 2020
LC - music, guitar
Bardonthewire - words, vocals

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Bardonthewire England, UK

Performance poetry with a library card (voice & drum, folk ballads, ghazals, sonnets, beat poems, sound poems, raps) much of it happening 'on the street' or jostling to be heard in the tavern. Researched stories of folk heroes and real folk. History for you. Bardic poetry striving (as all arts do) for the condition of music (from punk though rap to to prog). Visionary lit. for your average Blake. ... more

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