High-quality studio recording of this song is on my album, Spies Are Reading My Blog:
https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/albu...
Welcome to the new New Zealand (or not).
I'd so much rather be doing the tour of Aotearoa rather than writing a song about the tour that didn't happen... But everybody kept saying that I'd get a song out of this debacle, so I figured I should do that.
Of course, you can read more details about what happened on my blog:
http://songwritersnotebook.blogspot.j...
Lyrics:
I should be gigging in New Zealand now but I am not
I'm stuck at Narita instead
I should be singing in Dunedin, smoking kiwi pot
And chilling with the kiwi reds
But when I showed up at the airport to board my flight
I was handed somebody's cell phone
Suddenly the future didn't look so bright
And I entered the Twilight Zone
The woman on the line said hello
I'm from Immigration
You may have a ticket but you can't go
To our great island nation
I felt like I'd been hit in the face
With a big old kiwi log
But then I felt the Stasi's cold embrace
When she said I've been reading your blog
The spies are reading my blog The introduction and the prologue
And if that's so, it just might be true That they're watching this video, too
Well I normally don't get many views
A few hundred friends and kooks
So it comes as surprising news
That some of the are kiwi spooks
I try to get my missives out
And cause some small commotion
Someone's listening, now there's no doubt
Across the South Pacific ocean
Were you strip-searched in Trondheim, she asked
What kinds of things do you smoke
Have you ever been charged with a crime
Are you rich or are you broke
Have you ever been turned away
From any borders you tried to cross
What kind of venues did you plan to play
Do you use dental floss
I said it seems a bit unusual
For you to do things quite this way
I asked her is this normal
But she wouldn't say
She'd just repeat her message
At Narita you shall remain
I've read your blog, each vile passage
And you may not board that plane
