Thomas Dolby Airwaves

From his 1982 album The Golden Age of Wireless

Lyrics:

Strange how the scale forms
In tiny patterns
On my antenna
And The Five O'Clock Show, hello hello ...
Brooklyn is crawling with famous people
I turn my vehicle beneath the river, west from south


Through the airwaves-
People never read the airwaves
Do we only feed the airwaves
I really should have seen through the airwaves


Electric fences line our new freeway
Here in the half-light, the motorhomes leave
Knee-deep in water under a pylon
How slow my heartbeat
How thin the air I'm breathing in


Through the airwaves -
People never read the airwaves
Do we only feed the airwaves
Or stamp them out at street level?
Airwaves - the dampness of the wind
The airwaves - the tension of the skin
The airwaves


Control has enabled the abandoned wires again
But the copper cables all rust in the acid rain
That flood the subway with elements of our corrosion
Cadled in to me, cable them to me
Cable them to me.


Be in my broadcast when this is over
Give me your shoulder
I need a place to wait for morning
No it was nothing - some car backfiring -
Please don't ask questions
I itch all over
Let me sleep.


Through the airwaves -
People never read the airwaves
Do we only feed the airwaves
Or stamp them out at street level?
Airwaves - the dampness of the wind
The airwaves - the tension of the skin
The airwaves I really should have seen through ...

Category:

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• Thomas
• Dolby
• Airwaves
• The
• Golden
• Age
• of
• Wireless

[SerraFlame]

First time hearing this song and it's absolutely hypnotizing. Those chords...

[SerraFlame]

One week later: still can't get this song out of my head.

[juliano66]

This song reminds me of the factory glow at night behind my house in the country--green windows, dark trees, I wondered if robots we're being made! 82-83---

[kz1000ps]

Wow, this song is just incredible.

[weatherboxmike]

Absolutely FUCKING BRILLIANT SONG

[GGiblet]

this has always been my favourite of the many greatgreat Dolby tracks

my Da was a radio man in the Army, so there ya go  :)

[SnakemanisJeff]

ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssigh the 80's. Thomas you are ahead of your time as you were then you as you are now in the future. Thank you for all the memoriesssssssssssssssssssssss­sssssssssssssssss

[VashTheWaterbender]

Reminds me a bit of "Good Night Saigon" by Billy Joel.

[jehosh5577]

Easily one of the most beautiful songs of the eighties! Effortlessly haunting and romantic...

[mrJimCharles]

@lawrence090469 It's "Cloudburst at Shingle Street"

[clockworkfiction3]

@woodhd

Yeah, he sounds a lot like Bowie here, especially at the beginning.