Repetition For This World

Take a look at the tiles
you'll see the cracks on them are fading
you're eyesight's not as good as it was

A song that really should have been written by a band that owned a sequencer. BN

Well that's a little blunt, though the synthesizer top part certainly taxed my abilities. I remember that it took a few takes and I was doing it on its own, with Ben and John looking on, by turns encouraging and exasperated. Recorded September 81. GG

Released on Enormous Savages.

And now a second version - in fact the original - has been released on Press My Hungry Button and a Messthetics compilation (please see compilations). We had no memory of this. This original version is the one on Endzeit. We never got the master back from Geff Rushton and memory of it faded. I was quite positive that there was only the version on Enormous Savages, Frank of VOD was quite positive that he had something different on his copy of Endzeit... It's very good, perhaps better than the 4-track version on Enormous Savages; the synth has more of a groove to it, also - done on the 2-track Tensai - as Ben has pointed out, the synth sound we could get recording on that machine had a great deal of presence - as with the original version of 'Greencage Cabaret' on Press My Hungry Button, which was also done on the Tensai. GG

Repetition for this world

So you think you're unhappy
my well-trodden packhorse
take a look at the tiles
you'll see the cracks on them are fading
your eyesight's not as good as it was

So you think you're unhappy
my sweet little one
o count the hairs and the hands
growing much too older
you'll see that the time for repression has come

So you think you're unhappy, my Odysseus
of your dying underground
just look down the tramlines
and the broken siding
you know they're of no use now

It's just a repetition for this world
it's just a repetition for this world