Saturday, March 25, 2006

Video 1982 - One of Our Submarines is Missing

Remember when MTV had no commercials and only played music videos?
From that time 1982: Thomas Dolby - One of Our Submarines is Missing

One of our Submarines
written by Thomas Dolby
recorded and mixed August 1982

One of our submarines is missing tonight
Seems she ran aground on manoeuvres
One of our submarines

A hungry heart
To regulate their breathing
One more night
The Winter Boys are freezing in their spam tin
The Baltic moon
Along the Northern seaboard
And down below
The Winter Boys are waiting for the storm

Bye-bye empire, empire bye-bye
Shallow water - chanel and tide

And I can trace my history
Down one generation to my home
In one of our submarines
One of our submarines

The red light flicker, sonar weak
Air valves hissing open
Half her pressure blown away
Flounder in the ocean
See the Winter Boys
Drinking heavy water from a stone

Bye-bye empire, empire bye-bye
Shallow water - channel and tide
Bye-bye empire, empire bye-bye
Tired illusion drown in the night

And I can trace my history
Down one generation to my home
In one of our submarines
One of our submarines
One of our submarines

One of our submarines is missing tonight
Seems she ran aground on manoeuvres
One of our submarines

I remember watching MTV during that time and hearing the song but I never saw the music video. Maybe it's because I was at sea most of the time in the early 1980s on "One of Our Submarines".

1 comment:

Rick "Doc" MacDonald said...

Thanks for the flashback. I hope I don't get the urge to pretend I'm Jim Morrison, AGAIN! I don't mind the roof, the fresh air, the clean notebook, or the new pen. But the last time I tried and trusted the foreign substance muse he recommended, I almost died falling off the roof waiting for the theory of "automatic writing" to over take me. In the end, unlike Morrison and his idol, Arthur Rimbaud, all I came down with was pneumonia and a soggy and totally empty notebook. To this day, I have yet to write a poem greater than a haiku. ~dirt kick~