THE ELUSIVE METALLIC IDOL
©Trev Teasdel December 1968 Coventry
There’s a maze of minds
Designing all kinds of cars.
There’s a surfeit of time to kill,
So the people do what they will.
Living in flats, so very high.
Working so hard till they finally die.
Cogwheels are spinning
And people are sinning.
Papa’s won the pools,
Look at all the fools
Smoking and drinking,
No time for thinking.
(Bridge)
I don’t know what to do for the best
I’m counting the hairs on my hairless chest
Times are so hard,
Think I’ll send them a Christmas card.
Money becomes their life,
The object of their strife.
The elusive metallic idol
Can make you suicidal.
So get outta bed,
Screw on your head
It’s full speed ahead.
Grab what you can while you may.
Got no time for pleasure and play!
This is another song called Just before Dawn but in this extended version i covered some of the lyrics to Elusive Metallic Idol in the latter verses.
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Probably influenced by early Cat Stevens, or at least that’s how I heard it sung. I saw a TV documentary and that sparked the song. Tony Mojo Morgan, then of the Mick Green Blues band in Coventry 1970, put the song to music, after I gave the band some of my lyrics to try out. Mojo was later of the Coventry Ska band EMF who won the Battle of the Bands 1981 and made a single for RCA. Anti Bellum – here