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Utility drag.

Mrs. X

Ah! I knew it all along! We
ARE the Frozen Ones!!!!!

Actually, he's a liquid.

Are you sure he's not a Lonely Hunter or one of the Wide Boys?

Mrs. X

I just ate a big red candle.

Not a Foxx lyric...but don't you just wish he'd write a song around it?

John Foxx and Bill Nelson are responsible for some of the oddest song titles in history. I get the feeling some arty type walks up to them and says, "I bet you $10 you can't write a song with the title 'Radiant Nature Knows Not The Workers' Sorrow.'"

Au contraire, M. JF-worthy.

Let's consider the probem.

For a song to exist - and work - some bits would have to rhyme...preferably the last word of the aforementioned...with other words in the song...

So: 'sorrow'

Give us:

Borrow

Follow

Hollow

Wallow

At a push we could expand to similar-ish words:

Tomorrow

Domino (...a brief pause in tribute to Keira Knightly...mmm...Oh!, and Domino Harvey...and her dad, Laurence...and little Monolith-shaped wood things with dots on...)

At the absolute outside, one could go completely Marlon Brando and extend to:

Jeff Morrow (he who played the spectacularly-foreheaded 'Exeter' in the 1955 scifi 'classic' 'This Island Earth'. You know, it's always escaped me why a man would chose to play a small English town...and with a really big forehead...)

So: problem solved!

Not only is such a song feasible...it'd be really easy!

You youngsters give up on things soooooo easily nowadays!

M'lud, the Defence rests.

Radiant nature knows not the workers' sorrow
Drooling at the teets of the luscious Charo

Bill's song is without lyrics, but I think I just improved upon it.

Radiant nature knows not the workers' sorrow
For where will he be when he wakes up tomorrow?



Mrs. X

"Radiant nature knows not the workers' sorrow
Foxx blazed a trail and Numan followed"

(Do we get Numanoids on here much? If so, I'm off....) ;-)