Timeslip moment again...
Thirty years ago this week (a terrifying thought), one of my favourite songs by a favourite band of all time was in the Top Ten.
Formed out of the remnants of the original Human League, and hot on the heels of their British Electric Foundation (BEF) side-project, it's Messrs Martyn Ware, Ian Craig Marsh and Glenn Gregory - aka Heaven 17!
I was thirty-seven
You were seventeen
You were half my age
The youth I'd never seen
Unlikely people meeting in a dream
Heaven only knows
The way it should have been
Here today, my tomorrow
Where you lead
I will follow
All that kissing
No passion missing
Come live with me
Kiss the boys goodbye
Come live with me
Kiss the boys goodbye
Come live with me
Dinner parties followed
And all my age implies
My friends began to talk
I began to realize
If half the things they say
Are quarter true of me
Then how can I eclipse the youth
You gave to set me free?
There was something in your smile
That was hard to reconcile
The time had come to testify to reason
Though years will not erase
Remembrance of those days
At least there's
No submission to heart's treason
Here today, my tomorrow
No more shame, only sorrow
All that kissing
There's something missing
Come live with me
Kiss the boys goodbye
Come live with me
Kiss the boys goodbye
Come live with me
Sheer poetry...
Heaven 17 official website
Blimey - I played this song endlessly at the time....although I remember someone, probably in Smash Hits, pointing out that 37 isn't *actually* double 17...xxx
ReplyDeleteNeil Tennant could be very pedantic :-)
DeleteJx
it was and still is a great single - thanks for reminding me of it
ReplyDeleteT x
One of the very best, of any era... Jx
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