I finally got hold of a new copy of one of my favorite albums of all time: Thomas Dolby – The Flat Earth (1984). I hadn’t actually listened to most of this album on sooo long -and I used to play the tape nearly every day through middle school. The lyrics didn’t mean as much to me as they do now but the songs still move me emotionally just as they did 20 years ago! Here’s a sample:
I Scare Myself
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I scare myself just thinking about you
I scare myself when I’m without you
I scare myself the moment that you’re going
I scare myself when I let my thoughts run
and when they’re running
I keep thinking of you
and when they’re running
what can I do?
I scare myself, and I don’t mean lightly
I scare myself, it can get frightening
I scare myself, to think what I could do
I scare myself — it’s some kind of voodoo…
and with that voodoo
I keep thinking of you
and with that voodoo
what can I do?
but it’s so so very different when we’re together
and I’m so so much calmer; I feel better
’cause the stars already crossed our paths forever
and the sooner that you realise it the better
and then I’ll be with you and I won’t scare myself
and I’ll know what to do and I won’t scare myself
and my thoughts will run and I won’t scare myself
and I’ll think of you and I won’t scare myself
Mulu The Rain Forest
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If I’m not sleeping
it’s because I’m frightened
of what I might find
behind the curtain
there is a signal
there is a warning
I will not heed them
until I hear the morning dew
that trickles down my window
Mulu — the people of the rain forest
believe in dreamtime
real time inverted
along a faultline
below the surface
there is a sequence
there is a reason
for all the nightmares
all this mayhem
Mulu — the changes came before he knew —
the keeper of the rain forest…
Talk to me Mulu
Speak to me Mulu
Walk with me Mulu
Reach for me Mulu
Mulu — the waters came before he know
the prisoner of the rain forest