1000 SONGS - DAY 137: SONG #167

DAY 137: A Song From The Radio

I first heard this song on the radio in 1980, when it was released on the self-titled debut album of the Psychedelic Furs. (On the same radio show on the same day, I first heard, "Heaven" by the Talking Heads from their Fear of Music album). The lyrics also prominently feature the word "radio", and the Furs first called themselves "RKO"- after "RKO Picures, I guess - a famous film-studio featured in the lyrics of "Science Fiction/Double Feature" from the Rocky Horror Picture show. Then they called themselves "Radio" and it took some more tries to find their proper name. If I remember it rightly, I did not buy a copy of the album before the first half of the nineties. Nevertheless, it has always been one of my favoured dark existentialist songs.

stupid on the steinway
o sick upon a steinway
the sailors drown
see them talk and see them drown
and see them drink and fall around
upon the floor

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again

lonely in a crowded room
the radio plays out of tune
so silently
the radio upon the floor
is stupid, it plays aznavour
so out of key

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again

broken on a ship of fools
even dreams must fall to rules
so stupidly
words are all just useless sound
just like cards, they fall around
and we will be

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again
ah ssss...

buy a car and watch it rust
sister see them fall to dust
they fall around
in another crowded room
paint me like the shirt i'm in
honestly

sister of mine, home again
sister of mine, home again
ah ssss...

sister of mine
sister of mine
sister of mine
sister of mine