OT : What are you listening to right now?

Just teasing... I know all south east London really well, lived in Bermondsey SE16 long enough... There used to be a cracking Chinese restaurant up where Old Kent Road becomes New Cross Road. The owner would don his Elvis costume, and serenade the diners with Elvis songs.

The National - New Order T-Shirt



How you tapped on a box of blue American Spirits

At Anyway Cafe a little under a month

Before the ashes and management capital files filled the streets



How we wove through the cones walking home

To the place on Atlantic you shared with your hilarious sister

Kicking off your black flats, demolished and laughing



I keep what I can of you

Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holding a cat and a glass of beer



When you rescued me from the customs cops in Hawaii

When I shut down the place with my Japanese novelty bomb

And your dad came along



How you had me lay down for a temperature check

With the cool of your hand on the back of my neck

When I said "I think I'm finally going crazy for real"



I keep what I can of you

Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holding a cat and a glass of beer

I flicker through

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

You in a Kentucky aquarium

Talking to a shark in a corner



You in the bath on the phone

Telling somebody that maybe they're better off leaving

Than staying in it alone

You in the bath on the phone

Telling somebody that maybe they're better off leaving

Than staying in it alone



When you cried at the beach and recovered in seconds

And said everything's fine but I knew that it wasn't

Then you stayed out of reach of me for almost a year



How you looked like a poster of a 70's movie

Standing outside at the base of your magazine skyscraper

Waiting for me to go drinking downtown



I keep what I can of you

Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holding a cat and a glass of beer

I flicker through

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

You in a Kentucky aquarium

Talking to a shark in a corner



I keep what I can of you

Split second glimpses and snapshots and sounds

You in my New Order t-shirt

Holding a cat and a glass of beer

I flicker through

I carry them with me like drugs in a pocket

You in a Kentucky aquarium

Talking to a shark in a corner

Been playing my music library in alphabetical order. Just heard Helter Skelter 4 times in a row. Henry, by New Riders now.

I gotta tell ya - I love the Ram song

I do