Pushing Thirty-Peter Hammill

[ti:Pushing Thirty (2006 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Future Now] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pushing Thirty (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill [00:23.46]Seems the fashion's for one-liners these days [00:26.42]The kind that get up everyone's nose [00:30.34]So much back-slapping that the vertabrae [00:33.79]Are fatally exposed [00:36.63]Me I'm pushing thirty pulling sixteen [00:40.53]Though much of what's around me is dead [00:44.36]They got so shirty when I tried to glean [00:47.74]The meaning from what they'd said: [00:50.85]"If you wanna be a viable artist when you're twenty-five [00:54.57]You'd better be a meat-head by the time you're twenty-one " [00:58.61]But now I'm pushing thirty and I'm still alive [01:03.76]So tell me who tell me who [01:06.79]Tell me who yeah tell me who has won [01:09.76]See the survivors in the upcoming acts [01:12.57]They and the moguls make a regular killing – [01:15.46]Others take it lying on their backs [01:19.48]Young blood is always so willing [01:23.19]Me I'm pushing thirty that's the way it is [01:26.91]Too late to change my mind [01:30.72]They play it dirty in the record biz [01:34.06]And you've got to toe the line [01:37.19]If you wanna be an A & R man when the singing's done [01:40.98]You'd better make sure that you hedge your bets [01:46.40]Me I'm pushing thirty and still having fun [01:49.87]I haven't stopped I haven't stopped [01:53.02]I haven't stopped I haven't stopped that yet [01:55.96] [02:50.18]All the writers watch each other for the way to go [02:53.45]Follow each other like lemmings – [02:56.99]Swear they're all waiting for Nicky Lowe [03:00.15]To turn out like David Hemmings [03:04.12]Me I'm pushing thirty and the steady zone [03:07.52]Perhaps I should retire [03:10.61]But even if it all deserts me and I'm left alone [03:14.07]I still know that I'm fuelled by fire [03:17.63]In this rubbish world you've got to keep that under the lid [03:21.33]'Cos they all hope it'll disappear [03:26.52]But even though I'm pushing thirty [03:28.62]Maybe on the skids [03:30.14]I still can be I still can be [03:33.11]I still can be I still can be Nadir [03:50.08]I still can be I still can be [03:56.85] [04:00.68]I still can be Nadir [04:04.24]Yes I still can be Nadir [04:06.88]Got a sixteen-year-old heart