Day 273: Senses Working Overtime

Senses Working Overtime by XTC

Another great find from a classic mixtape given to me by a friend in the 80s.

So I messed around until I found two chords that seemed to go together and I thought, “Yeah, this sounds great, it’s medieval, it’s like pictures from illuminated manuscripts, tilling the soil, and wow, how hard life was in those days. So, I know, I’ll make the verse kind of like these little figures tilling the land, and cutting hedgerows, and stuff — I’ll make it as if it’s their woes, and their worries, and the things that they’d be singing about — or the things they’d be fantasizing about.” About how the clouds were all made of whey, you know, while worrying if there was enough straw for the donkey, and that. So, because I blundered into this sort of medieval thing by accident for the verse, I thought, “I’ll roll with it, I’ll write kind of medieval words to it, and we’ll go for the rhythm as a sort of medieval single little tight drum.”

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