Ian Anderson - Photo Shop video free download


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Duration: 03:23
Uploaded: 2009/02/27

Another track off of Rupi's Dance.

Lyrics - A Morris Minor, a café noir

Banana smoothie, snails in a jar.

Three dodgy sailors, a girl on skates

A little too muscled from doing weights.

A family wedding, a sushi bar

Sand in the Seychelles, karaoke star.

Lads on the razzle get lost in love.

Paddington station, rain clouds above.

The crumpled sheets of a long hot summer.

Stored images like an acorn, drop.

Squirreled away, but still remembered

by the man in the photo shop.

Rush hour on Praed Street: behind the glass

a picture process, in one hour fast.

Intimate portraits of topless wives

flashed indiscretions: snap-happy lives.

Ian Anderson Vocals, flute, piccolo, mandolin, percussion, accordion, acoustic bass guitar

Just across the street from Londons Paddington Station, is a small photo shop where I have occasionally taken in some film for developing. The voyeuristic delights (and horrors) of processing the customers holiday snaps must be a poor substitute for the chance to leave cold and rainy old Paddington for the balmier climes of foreign parts.

And some of those foreign parts, in all their gynaecological detail, doubtless show up in the work load from time to time. Oh, well: brightens up a drab day doesnt it? And most of the snaps get stuck in a bottom drawer and forgotten; better remembered, perhaps, by the photo processor than the picture-taker. Think about it when next you drop off the roll of film with the bared buttocks of Auntie Maude by the swimming pool.

Funny old waste of trees, most holiday photos

Comments

14 years ago

naditales

Que cojonudo el tema!!!!!! Genial el Anderson...

15 years ago

Aqualung71

Well yeah I don't think anybody knows what he's on about half the time! But you of course have a better chance of understanding by nationality!

15 years ago

roddy76to86

Maybe, but I still don't know what he's on about half the time, but I suppose I have a better chance !

15 years ago

Aqualung71

Well you have a better understanding just by being Scottish!

15 years ago

roddy76to86

Well nor do I !

15 years ago

Aqualung71

Yes, I always intrigued by the obscure lyrics too. Sometimes when I am really interested to find out what they mean I'll look it up. But thanks Gothling for your introspective comments as usual.

15 years ago

gothling1955

Ah, yes! But you see, with all kind regard, I've always LOVED the wealth of exceedingly obscure references in Ian's lyrics. But then, many's the time I've been called a wee bit strange. However, I'd be fibbing if I didn't say that the "snails in a jar" reference didn't go a ways towards putting me off my lunch. As to the video itself, first rate, as always, Aqua. Very cool visual effects. And you do seem to delight in digging up that occasional pic of Ian which had previously escaped my notice.

15 years ago

Aqualung71

I'll be looking froward to seeing that! Yeah thanks for explaining that because I didn't have a f@cking clue what that was! A lot of the time I don't know what he is even singing about!

15 years ago

roddy76to86

A Morris Minor ?! The things this guy will get into his lyrics. For all you US of A folk, the Morris Minor was the iconic car in the UK in the 50s and 60s. Strange looking things they were to. A picture will be e-mailing its way to you Mr Aqualung71 shortly !

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