There’s always the sun
The Stranglers, October 1986
As I wake in my hotel in the eastern city suburbs at 7 am, I can still hear the strains of the Viennese Boy’s Choir departing from their programme to sing ‘Jerusalem’ at last night’s client reception. I can still picture the grandeur, imperial opulence and enormous chandeliers of Vienna’s Coburg Palace.
Categories: 2006 · Vienna · music · summer
Walked in the cold air
Freezing breath on a window pane
Lying and waiting
A man in the dark in a picture frame
So mystic and soulful
The warmth of your hand
And a cold grey sky
It fades to the distance
The feeling has gone only you and I
It means nothing to me
This means nothing to me
Oh, Vienna
Ultravox - July 1980
Central Europe. December. It’s a long time since I’ve been here, and the feeling has eluded me recently, but perhaps it’s never quite gone away.
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