New Model Army

Addiction is the topic of the Blind Date I have embarked upon with the members of Quinti Quinti.

http://www.transquinquennal.be/blinddate/

We talked about Facebook, Electricity, knowing and guilt this afternoon amongst many other things. Then it just happened on my walk home from the studio. I heard a ancient echo, a song from back, 'then'. Twenty years ago when I first rebelled, broke my own sorrowful little mold and thought process I had walked out of my head to this tune. It was called, 'No Rest', from New Model Army. I remember feeling very guilty listening to it and was not long after that my father destroyed my entire record collection leaving me only Pieter Gabrail's, 'Boy In The Bubble'. As a result I can't sleep and even if I could it would be an uncomfortable one. The lyrics of that 1980's New Model Army song keep racing through my mind at a rather disturbing pace. They go something like this...

4 O'clock in the morning,
still we cannot sleep
turning over
turning round
twisting in our sweat
they say there is no rest for the wicked ones
dear god - what have we done?
there is no rest for the wicked ones
dear god - what is this evil that we've done??
there is no rest for the wicked ones
dear god - what is this evil that we've done??

Is it that we wanted more than you gave
why did you put us then
in this smalltown grave
humility - is that what you want?
why did you make us then the way you did??
yes,we have pride
yes,we have pride -
is this our sin?
is this our sin?!

4 O'clock...

Is it the times that we've been out fighting?
well i'll tell you all those times -
we never really hurt anybody
or is it that we were eating
while other people were starving
is this our crime?
is this our crime??!

4 O'clock...

Is it the times we laughed about it all
through all those whisky nights so far away
yes,we have betrayed you
yes,we have betrayed you -
is this our crime?
is this our crime?!

4 O'clock.


What a difference a day makes.