1975 from Cafe 24 by Stephen Dunwoody

1975

I lasted less than a week on the factory floor
The boss said to me (I was new)
Get the bus
Get your long hair cut
And don’t come back to you do

I left for good like I knew I would
Searching for the words to contrive
Mum said ‘I can’t believe
You’d be so naive’
It was 1975

Boys like me came home from Vietnam
Confused and barely alive
Nixon’s Watergate
We had Thatchergate
1975

But then a music man from a Beatle band
In the doorway of a rock n roll dive
I saw on a house
A god in Levi Strauss
Farewell ‘75

Get in line
Wasted time
Dream number nine

What remains is still the same
Breaking free before you arrive
Escape your fate
It’s getting late
1975

• Classic Rock
• Rock
• blues
• jazz rock
• the who
• Belfast