Sunday, March 2, 2014

KLEM FM



"Rudy"

Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line
He don't wanna get there, but he needs time
He ain't sophisticated, nor well-educated
After all the hours he wasted, still he needs time.
He needs time - he needs time for livin',
He needs time - for someone just to see him.
He ain't had no lovin'
For no reason or rhyme
And the whole world's above him.
Well it's not as though he's fat-
No there's more to this than that-
See he tries to play it cool-
Wouldn't be nobody's fool.

Rudy thought that all good things comes to those that wait
But recently he could see that it may come too late.

All through your life, all through the years
Nobody loved, nobody cared.
So dim the light, dark are your fears
Try as I might, I can't hold back the tears
How can you live without love, it's not fair?
Someone said give but I just didn't dare.
What good advice are you waiting to hear?
Hearing's alright for them that's all there

You'd better gain control now
You'd better show'em all now
You'd better make or break now
You'd better give and take now
You'll have to push and shove now
You'll have to find some love now
You'd better gain control now.

Now he's just come out the movie.
Numb of all the pain,
Sad but in a while he'll soon be
back on his train...

The studio version of that song is much better than this live one, but I can't find the former to post here. Buy it, if you have the dime. I like how the train sound effects bracketed the song at the beginning and the end and you realize that the protagonist was having a sort of internal dialog but then slipped back into numbness. When I was of a certain tender age I remember talking with a best friend about how it must suck to be much older and to be "spent, yet malcontent." 

7 comments:

deborah said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ_5E-IDAms

Unknown said...

LOL - Deborah.

ricpic said...

TURN

The young look at the old and think it must suck;
The old look at the young and shudder.
The first is appetite; the second disgust.
The Croupier grips the wheel. Another.

chickelit said...

*bookmarks link for future use* :)

deborah said...

Did I detect a slight Santana influence on the guitar?

chickelit said...

Never thought of Supertramp as a guitar band, but maybe a little Caravanserai?

deborah said...

At about 2:15. Put me in mind of Moonflower album.