Week Fifty-Nine: iPod Picks - Part Deux - World Party - "Way Down Now" - Goodbye Jumbo

For Week Fifty-Nine, I'm lacking a bit of inspiration for a theme, so I'm turning my iPod loose again (in the form of putting it on shuffle) and letting it do the picking, just like I did in Week Thirty... Fortunately for me, it still hasn't died yet... It will be a sad, sad day when it eventually happens...

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Wow! This is such a great song to take you into the upcoming weekend. Sadly, I do not know anything at all about this band, other than the fact that I love this song, as well as one of their other hits called "Ship of Fools"... So I will have to resort to Wikipedia for help on this one...

"World Party is a British pop/alternative rock band, which is essentially the solo project of its sole member, Karl Wallinger. He started the band in 1986 in London after leaving The Waterboys."

"Recorded at Wallinger's home in 1986, his debut album Private Revolution yielded two minor hits in the UK, 'Private Revolution' and 'Ship of Fools'. 'Ship Of Fools', however, did much better outside the UK — it reached no. 4 in Australia, no. 21 in New Zealand, and no. 27 in the US, in the process becoming the act's only major international hit."

"In 1994, World Party recorded 'When You Come Back to Me' for the Reality Bites soundtrack influenced by David Bowie's 1975 song 'Young Americans'."

Inside my TV eye
Never stop to wonder why I'm
Way down now
I'm way down now
Some faceless get on the screen
The most honest man I've ever seen
I'm way down now
I'm way down now
Won't you show me something true today
C'mon and show me anything but this
She took us by the hand
Hell was the promised land I'm
Way down now I'm
I'm way down now
I'm lying by the road
Because she cut off all my clothes
I'm way down now
Way down now
Won't you show me something true today
C'mon and show me anything but this
Inside my future eye
What I see just makes me cry
I'm way down now
I'm way down now
The clocks will all run backwards
All the sheep will have two heads
And Thursday night and Friday
Will be on Tuesday night instead
And all the times will keep on changing
And the movement will increase
There's something about the living babe
That sends me off my feet
There's breeding in the sewers
And the rats are on their way
They're clouding up the images of perfect day
And I know I'm not alone
And I know I'm not alone
And I know I'm not alone
Anything but this
Can you hear me I said
Inside my TV eye
I never stop to wonder why
I'm way down now
I'm way down now
Then some faceless get comes on my screen
The most honest man I've ever seen
I'm way down now
I'm way down now

Something new! Something true!