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Your support makes all the difference.John Barry, composer of the James Bond film scores and many other Sixties soundtracks, is the subject of a new biography published this month.
You're padding round the
kitchen
To cymbals played with
brushes
A bass is walking slowly up the
hall
An alto flute jabs at you
A harpsichord comes in
A muted trumpet pins you to
the wall
But meanwhile, in the
bedroom
Two cellos swirling round
Have left a Sixties starlet on
the bed
The dark piano bass notes
The organ sneaking in
And strident brass confirm
that she is dead
Escaping from a window
You throw the trumpets off
A tremolo guitar comes to the
fore
You know that you're in
trouble
To hear the mandolins
By then you're trussed up
tightly in 3/4.
The strange and spooky
waltzes
The silk-seductive strings
Can all conspire to make you
feel sad
For spies who never loved you
And places never seen
Nostalgia for the times you
never had.
And then the film is over
And all the frosty strings
Have faded down and left you
with the truth
It never really happened
And nothing's been disturbed
The only thing that's missing
is your youth.
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