Tasty 7" vinyl version of stage favourite MISSION IMPOSSIBLE from Across the Divide album. Pressed on cherry red vinyl with a custom pocket jacket. B side is NORMAL DAY from same album.
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An allegorical tongue-in-cheek - and true! - story about me (Samson) being seduced by a record executive (Delilah), the whole thing being related by a mythical friend. This is what I would call a legacy song resurrected with the help of my new ProTools software.
lyrics
Well Delilah came on the phone & said 'Boy, d'you wanna take me home?'
and Samson, he said 'Babe you know I do,'
'but there's things to be worked out, there's my ma who is without,
and she must be informed that we are two'
Well Delilah said 'I have no grouse, and besides I've seen your house
and I like it, it has all my due respect.
But to me you now must come, and what's to do must now be done
- together, so as to get the best effect.'
Well Samson he said 'Bye', then looked me in the eye
and said 'Friend, I'm in need of counselling.'
And I said 'Oh Sam you must not go',
and he said 'but friend, how do you know?'
and I said 'Ah yes, I was on the extension, listening in.'
And he said 'Ah yes that is so, but your advice I must forgo,
for my love she will not wait for evermore.'
and with a parting glance, he shook hands and said 'Thanks,
God bless you friend', and walked out of the door.
Many months were then to pass before I was led to ask
off a weary warrior from the South:
'What news of battles won, of Kings & Queens undone,
what secrets do you keep within your mouth?'
He said 'It is not well, for many gods have fell
and many more are waiting yet to fall.
And the sun will not long set before Elijah himself has met
that most feared mortal of them all.'
'For the one of whom I speak, is now prisoner to the weak
as we are all prisoners to fate.
And Queen Delilah has decreed that she cannot intercede
in matters preferential to the state.'
Well I was sore afraid, for the soldier had portrayed
a vision of my one and only friend.
And so I made all haste, unto the city gates
thereby to put my torment at an end.
And once inside the city walls, and in the royal halls,
I gazed upon the scene with disbelief.
For there in that princely castle sat a rogue, and a rascal,
a vagabond, a liar, and a thief.
And I looked at each in turn, and bade them all confirm
that Samson of Judea dwelt within.
And they answered with a laugh, and bid me follow aft
to the Arena, where the show would soon begin.
Well the Arena it was bubbling, all the senators were juggling
for a seat that would lend pleasure to their view.
Then a mighty horn was sounded, and all outbound flights were grounded,
as Delilah made her entrance dressed in blue
She cast aside her robes, and the multitude arose
enraptured by the beauty of her skin.
And they spent themselves a-grinning 'til Delilah, she stopped spinning,
and said 'Let Samson - From the dungeon be brought in!’
And I cried 'Oh Sam, what has gone wrong?
and he said 'Friend, it's a long long story -
and time is of the essence it is true.'
'But to cut the story short, young Delilah is a fraud,
yeh and her parents - they are both unmarried too'.
Then with a fearful cry, he looked blindly to the sky
and bade the Lord one dying wish to grant.
Then he whispered to my ear - 'God speed you quickly far from here,
for the coming of Jehovah is at hand'.
Then the sky was rent in twain, with great boulders did it rain.
As I watched from off a hill in Galillee...
And with tears in my eye, I bid that life bye-bye
and walked away into eternity...
So friends remember this, when you're lost inside your bliss,
A true love can be captured but never bought.
So don't count your chickens before they're hatched,
cos if the cock and hen aint matched....
All the pleasures of the roost will come to nought!
credits
from Across the Divide,
released January 22, 2013
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