. I've regretted time and again the fact that it took me so long to switch to collecting audio CDs from casette tapes. Last night was not an exception. At the time when CDs have just started occupying music stores, I wasn't thinking long-term. All I cared then was that I can buy 3 to 4 casette tapes at the cost of only one CD and since I appreciate a wide range of music, buying casette tapes was definitely more appealing and practical. But now, I don't get to hear my tapes anymore. For some, I've bought the CD already. Most have gone rotten. Some of them are still okay, I guess, but in any case, I don't have a casette player anymore. And so we go back to last night, when I soooo wanted to listen to
but I couldn't because I only have its tape. I've been looking for the CD for a long time now. Come to think of it, I have put off buying the last two EBTG albums because I want to get hold of this album, the one I consider their very best, first, besides the fact that they have gone exploring the beats of club music with their recent releases (something I still have trouble associating them with). So anyway, I made an inventory of the EBTG albums I've collected over the years and the following is a summary:
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Old Friends
(from Worldwide)
Not for the first time I look back on all those years. Not for the last time names will ring in my ears. When there was just a gang of us, storming the town by train and bus. A moment of thought this heart sends to old friends.
Not for the first time I look back on my first love. Unable to speak or think or move, hand in glove. But what of it now and where is (s)he, (s)he who once meant so much to me? Because we are not, I can't pretend, now old friends.
I was told love should hold old friends. I was told love should hold old friends. But when you leave you will close the door behind you -- don't we always? -- and time won't make amends to old friends.
Standing here with my arm around you, life's moved on, and all its borderlines are being redrawn. The winter has come, the roads are white. Everyone's home late tonight. May we stay or will it depend, as old friends? In the end, still old friends?
Troubled Mind
(from Amplified Heart)
Don't say one thing one day, then something else the next day. I'm trying to keep up with you -- it's hard enough when you speak clearly, but when you're confused, it's like a goods train running through these rooms. And I'm reading more into your words than you have put into them, and that's my problem, but you tied these knots, now you undo them. You undo them. Oh and think before you speak, my darling. Cause with your troubled mind, you're like a goods train running through my life. We all walk through this world alone, we keep ourselves untouched, unknown. You look up to the sky above you, read this ther -- I love you. Oh it's written there, you know I love you, love you, love you, love you. But with your troubled mind, you're like a goods train running through my life. And when you're down, you bring me down too, and babe that's something I would not do. I know it's hard, yeah I know it's hard, and babe that's something I don't disregard. But with your troubled mind, you're like a goods train running through my life.
Cross My Heart
(from Baby, The Stars Shine Bright)
Now and then
Do you wash your hands of me again?
Wish me anywhere but home
Drunk and on the end of your phone
From time to time
Do you guess what's really on my mind?
Guess that "How you keeping now?"
Means "Where are you sleeping now"?
But of course it's not polite
To ask you where you spent last night
And if I did you might reply
That I have no right
And anyway I'm fine
Glad that you're no longer mine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
You'd be appalled
If you knew what I was doing
When you called
Yes, I can see I'm blundering
Always end up wondering
Will it ever be alright
To ask you where you spent last night
And can it be polite
The way we never write
Of course I don't have the time
And anyway I'm fine
If I should tell a lie
I'll cross my heart and hope to die
I hope we never die.
