Loneliness of a tower crane driver lyrics

Picky Bastard Picky Bugger Puncture Repair Running To Stand Still Station Approach The Everthere Preview the embedded widget Elbow - Miscellaneous Album Lyrics 1. Cheeeek that out dude. Lead RIFFs:. Bad selection. Save Cancel. Really delete this comment? Yes No. An Imagined Affair. Audience With The Pope. Bones Of You. Flying Dream. Forget Myself. Great Expectations.

Mirrors and Smoke is a term for illusions and the following line is about living a life that's a joke. Maybe he's relating the whole miserable Elbow "character" to be just that, part of a character and sometimes he's happy and sometimes he's sad General Comment Nice story telecasterthommy, it's quite plausible I think. The way I see it is that the towercrane driver in some way lost his touch with normal life.

With his wife for instance: "I must have been working the ropes When your hand slipped from mine" I like this song alot. Another beauty of the Seldom Seen Kid album. General Comment What a fantastic song.

Just grows and grows on you. This is Guy Garvey - "My brother in law met a tower crane driver in a bar who began the night boasting about how well paid he was and how much he loved his job. He ended the night crying into his beer with loneliness. Ambition, if pursued to the cost of everything else, can leave you high, dry and lonely. General Comment This song almost makes me cry every single time I hear it. I think it's something to do with Guy's delivery of certain lines. It's just heart-breaking.

BoyNamedTim on September 21, Link. There is no band like this band! Artistic, Articulate, Ambitious, Emotional, Lonely Weaslemulberry on December 08, Should listen to the Live at Abbey Road version - that line is absolutely epic.

Sazzrah, ditto-ditto-ditto - I got the CD of that whole performance, which comes with the DVD, and was utterly blown away. Poz7 on July 27, General Comment Great post phantlers. I'm positive that 'mirrors and smoke' WAS intended also as a drug reference.

The crane driver is obviously using coke and weed to help him get through. Beautiful song. I don't really understand the first 3 lines though. And what's that about ticker-tape? Anyone know? SkintEastwood75 on January 10, Link. You could be right about the first couple of lines being literally about getting out of TV and leaving his job. Elbow are an English alternative rock band comprising Guy Garvey vocals, guitar , Richard Jupp drums, percussion , Craig Potter keyboards, piano , Mark Potter guitar, backing vocals , and Pete Turner bass guitar, backing vocals.

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