Forever Since

Taken from "Life Starts Here" 2002

"With crystal clear misery
I've grappled with the ever since
With heavy headed assurance
I'm reminded of the ever since

And into the phantom lake
Goes a firefly's innocence
Been there forever
And I've suffered or whatever
Been there forever since
With crystal clear misery...

In the dome of collision
We have little assurance
That the next day
Will grant clearance
A guest appearance"

I love the poetry of this first verse of this song. Quite lovely. This song is a basic Airport strip down of Bob, Guitar and a Drum and has an almost John Lennon lilting feel to it. A really good song tucked away on a wee Airport Five album. You sometimes wonder if they got some of these songs, stuck them through the Industry Production house, polished them up and set them out for the masses if they would be Top of the Hit Parade all round the world. Just a thought.

How Brown

Taken from "Life Starts Here" 2002

"For up we are
For up we are
And we must be adventurers
Partners in shit-heeled glory...

Sell a paranoid dream
Judgment
Followers
Quick tip swallowers

How brown?

It's making sense
And it drives the crucial moment
Into a fat body of work
But, oh how worthless

For up we are"

A slow start to an almost epic length Pollard song (it breaks the 4 minute barrier) then Bobs vocal come in with a wonderful song. "And we must be adventurers, partner's in shit healed glory". Has a sort of call to arm sound that "Disarm The Settlers" has. The lines "It's making sense,And it drives the crucial moment,Into a fat body of work,But, oh how worthless" could almost be the motto of this blog.

Wrong Drama Addiction (...And Life Starts Here...)

Taken from "Life Starts Here" 2002

"Manstruck-killed by the moonstruck
Fever hits like wide typhoon struck

Gaining steam in forest gloom
Now he belongs to them

Wrong drama addiction
Joycraft is worthless craving
Far too little that I've been saving
Now that i don't have it

What else can be gotten
Make no effort to control
Eternal racket in the soul
Picture me small
For every reason

The coast is wild
Come on one disease
The irritable suits
Destroy immunity

Wrong drama addition...
And life starts here..."

This could possibly be the longest song so far on "A Pollard A Day" (and possibly one of the longest Pollard songs he's ever recorded) clocking it at around 7 and a half minutes. We are in Airport 5 land now and whereas Airport 5 are usually quite poppy this song is long and experimental and wouldn't look out of place on a Circus Devils album. A Hypnotic "And Life Stats Here" is repeated over and over again throughout for the first half whilst Bob spouts on about Moonstruck and Typhoon Struck things and general oddness then we hit a patch of almost David Lynchesque engine hums and steam before the song slowly fades back into view and ends with a great Guitar part. Depending on your mood this song is cool and hypnotic or just an irritation. As I say, it depends on your mood.

The Dawntrust Guarantee

Taken from "Life Starts Here" 2002

"I sail the sink
For a severe several days
On the dawntrust guarantee
Hands strange criminals
Her growing religion
Gains gusto
Her growing hair
Is attractive
In the joint
One the wall
Trust me"

A robotic voice and synthy sounds great us on this Airport 5 Oddity. Sounds like background music to an 70s or 80s BBC low budget Sci-Fi series. Very odd. A bit different to the norm. Odd. Yea. Odd.

Yellow Wife No.5

Taken from "Life Starts Here" 2002.

"No connection between hot box and zip code
Circling Fort Recovery
For landing instructions

Save yourself
Stay alive
With Yellow Wife No. 5

White crushed Americans
Need weird energy
Time descriptions
Same old tricks
For computer strategy

Save yourself
Stay alive
With Yellow Wife No. 5"

The guitars at the start of this song remind me a mixture of the Mamas and Papas and an old Goth track. Weird. "Yellow Wife No.5" eh? What happened to the first 4 Yellow wives. They met sinister ends I expect. This song could easily slip onto "Green" by REM. The repeated Chorus gets under your skin and is just the right length before it gets too repetitive. Any ideas what Bobs on about?