Music older than me has always held me up and I know it always will The first CD I bought Coming Down Daniel Ash Too early for me, maybe but that quiet beginning then the guitars tearing through the air I fell I fell in love And then Prince The greatest guitar I've ever known I found his Super Bowl on YouTube years after it happened There was no distance There was no time Just music Music older than me has always held me up and I know it always will One thing led to another another led somewhere else No order No timeline Just digging 10cc XTC Roy Wood's Mustard Jellyfish a singer standing behind the drums and singing I would never have imagined it if I hadn't seen it On a screen someone left behind And Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity Jay Kay moving like gravity didn't matter I wanted to move like that I couldn't Still I remember Oasis Blur A rivalry already written into history But I listened to Suede more At least until Bernard Butler left Then Underworld Two Months Off Karl Hyde singing That was when I learned Music feels good I studied late at night with Underworld playing Pavement Weezer Nirvana was already history to me Maybe that's why I never needed music in order Sakamoto's piano Then back to YMO Back again Further back Mancini Sunflower And Vangelis Blade Runner Lights out in the middle of the night Just me and the sound Music older than me has always held me up and I know it always will And David Bowie Always Bowie Not respect Something closer to worship The seventies still feel almost divine And Blackstar I cried Someone leaves a sound behind Years pass Someone finds it on a screen in the dark And suddenly there is no past no future Only the sound One thing leads to another So I keep digging I keep listening I keep going Music older than me has always held me up And someday I want to make music that holds someone else Someone I will never meet Someone years from now Someone who finds my sound and keeps going That is my emotion
