Second Wind

I waaannnnaaaa be free! That's what we used to say:

Free as a bird! Bird on a Wire! Wired for Sound! The Sound of Silence!

The singers and the songs of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

Soundbites of a youth which has slowly ebbed away from us

The Age of Peace and Love, transcending human Understanding

We thought would bring us Happiness, and be so undemanding

Go back to Nature! Find your Inner Self!

Run naked in the woods! Go Veggie! Decide to be an Elf!

Alas! The British weather has conspired

To keep us all more sensibly attired

My Inner Self decided she didn't want to be ‘outed'

And "You Veggies just want to gobble up my home!" my Elf friend pouted

The Flower Power of the golden years so long ago

Was slowly choked, a garden untended where weeds of a baser nature took root

Peace and Love become so ‘last week', and Punk is born

The bastard child of a tone-deaf thrasher and a groupie girl who thinks he's cute

I hear around me Technobabble: House, Garage, Hip-hop, Rap

And other labels, just as daft, for different types of CRAP

But half the music in the charts - possibly even more

Seem to be "Cover Versions" of songs I've heard before

It's said "What goes round, comes around" and yes, that's probably true

For these "covers" in today's charts are those which we once knew

Heard late at night on Luxemburg's fade-in, fade-out pop plays

Or Caroline (the Isle of Man's best export) - happy days!

But if the boy bands of today have talent, let them show it!

As far as I'm concerned, record buyers ought to know it

Don't make videos! Play guitars!

Write your own songs: DON'T STEAL OURS!