John Cale Rise Sam And Rimsky Korsakov Lyrics

Rise Sam And Rimsky Korsakov Lyrics

Words: Sam Shepherd

I knew a guitar player once
Who called the radio
friendly
He felt a kinship, not with the music so much as with the radio's
voice
Its synthetic quality
Its voice as distinct from the voices coming
through it
Its ability to transmit the illusion of people at a great
distance

He slept with the radio
He talked to the radio
He
disagreed with the radio
He believed in a far away radio land

He
believed he would never find this land
So he reconciled himself to listening
to it only
He believed he had been banned from the radio land
And was
doomed to prowl the airwaves forever
Seeking some magical channel
That
would reinstate him to his long lost heritage