Corkscrew Rider (single)
by Babal
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About Corkscrew Rider
A fantasy ride through the average life; who really knows if we are living the life we intended? Or are we still waiting for someone else to tell us what to do or control the ride? Inspired by Ouspensky’s “Strange Life of Ivan Osokin”, Corkscrew Rider is a bluesy, hypnotic confessional, culminating in a manic rant against waste and greed…….”If I had my life to live over again….” Well, what would you do?
Track from BABAL's latest album "Who Will I Be When I Leave?" to be released on September 16th on Melodic Revolution Records.
A fantasy ride through the average life; who really knows if we are living the life we intended? Or are we still waiting for someone else to tell us what to do or control the ride? Inspired by Ouspensky’s “Strange Life of Ivan Osokin”, Corkscrew Rider is a bluesy, hypnotic confessional, culminating in a manic rant against waste and greed…….”If I had my life to live over again….” Well, what would you do?
Track from BABAL's latest album "Who Will I Be When I Leave?" to be released on September 16th on Melodic Revolution Records.
lyrics
I died 50 rides ago; nobody noticed – I looped the loop and went down the chute;
Now, I’ve come out; I’m riding high
Everything’s the same! I’m still strapped in,
Everything’s the same! I’m riding within.
I put myself on the ride, I put myself on the ride, I put myself on the ride with my own two hands…
While I’m riding free, I can control my destiny;
I’ve paid for the ride and now I’ve died; 50 rides ago, I died right inside!
I’m still strapped in and going round and round,
Waiting for the man to get me down!
I’m a corkscrew rider, I’m a corkscrew rider, I’m a corkscrew rider…
Looking at the view always askew; walking on the sky, but never getting high; pushing through the air with minutes to spare;
I’m a corkscrew rider! I’ll always be a corkscrew rider! I’ll always want to be a corkscrew rider! I’m on my own when I’m a corkscrew rider!
It’s great up here! I can see the bottom of the world! I can see the top of the mountains of dirt and all the white goods that we’ve dumped on other continents! I can see the knotted seas of plastic bags and broken birds! I can see the massive cruise ships and condos and corporations and crazy crazy crazy crazy men and women in suits, eating garbage and belching fire into their mobile phones…call me later…call me later, call me later, I’M DRIVING!!!!..... © Karen Langley
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Now, I’ve come out; I’m riding high
Everything’s the same! I’m still strapped in,
Everything’s the same! I’m riding within.
I put myself on the ride, I put myself on the ride, I put myself on the ride with my own two hands…
While I’m riding free, I can control my destiny;
I’ve paid for the ride and now I’ve died; 50 rides ago, I died right inside!
I’m still strapped in and going round and round,
Waiting for the man to get me down!
I’m a corkscrew rider, I’m a corkscrew rider, I’m a corkscrew rider…
Looking at the view always askew; walking on the sky, but never getting high; pushing through the air with minutes to spare;
I’m a corkscrew rider! I’ll always be a corkscrew rider! I’ll always want to be a corkscrew rider! I’m on my own when I’m a corkscrew rider!
It’s great up here! I can see the bottom of the world! I can see the top of the mountains of dirt and all the white goods that we’ve dumped on other continents! I can see the knotted seas of plastic bags and broken birds! I can see the massive cruise ships and condos and corporations and crazy crazy crazy crazy men and women in suits, eating garbage and belching fire into their mobile phones…call me later…call me later, call me later, I’M DRIVING!!!!..... © Karen Langley
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released August 16, 2022
Karen Langley - vocals
Rob Williams - guitars, guitar synth
Jon Sharp - drums
Paul Smith - bass
Music and Lyrics
Karen Langley/Rob Williams
Karen Langley - vocals
Rob Williams - guitars, guitar synth
Jon Sharp - drums
Paul Smith - bass
Music and Lyrics
Karen Langley/Rob Williams
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Babal Bristol, UK
One speaks and a thousand misunderstand
where millions are silent and a thunderous applause erupts
where chatter
overwhelms humility and gossip destroys worlds
the tongues wag, the ears flap, and the mind creates a wall
everything has been said but no one has understood
talking with conviction and concluding that knowledge is easy and affects a multitude of expanding smokescreens around the truth
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