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Extract from The Book Of Hours (2)

from ZOOT SUIT by JUDGE SMITH

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I'll never be Paul McCartney,
I'll never be Nat King Cole,
And I'll never be top song writer
On the Melody Maker poll.
I'll never be Neil Sedaka,
Gerry Goffin or Carole King,
But I wish I'd wrote just one standard
That people would always sing.

I really don't feel too depressed,
In fact I'm curiously relieved.
Wish I could say no regrets
For all the years that I believed...

That I would be the new Bob Dylan,
And talk on the South Bank Show,
But I wish that I'd found out different
About ten years ago.
Brian Matthew won’t tell my story
In seventeen weekly parts,
And that tour with Tina Turner
Must finish before it starts.

Something is rotten
In the state of Denmark Street,
'Cause with a little help
I could have joined that small Elite.
I might have been a new Cole Porter,
Or maybe an Elton John...
No! I’ve got to stop thinking that way,
I’ve been fooling myself too long.
I’ll never be Richard Rogers,
I’ll never be Lorenz Hart,
And whatever new game I’ll be playing,
I'll be too bloody late to start.
I'll never be Noel Coward,
I'll never be David Bowie,
I'll never be Leonard Bernstein,
I'll never be Buddy Holly.

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from ZOOT SUIT, released May 28, 2020

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JUDGE SMITH Glastonbury, UK

Judge Smith co-founded the band Van der Graaf Generator in 1967 with Peter Hammill, & has since been involved in many music projects as writer, composer or performer. He has written stage musicals, classical & rock libretti, songs for television & a book on Life after Death; directed a prize-winning short film, & released fourteen CDs & two DVDs. He was born in 1948 & lives near Glastonbury, UK. ... more

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