
Of Time and the City
(# Liszt:
Consolation No. 3 in D Flat Major)
(# U naccompanied piano plays
(T erence Davies narrates... )
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows
What are those blue remembered hills
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again
(# Piano continues to murmur... )
I met a traveller from an antique land
who said:
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
stand in the desert
And on the pedestal
these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias,
King of Kings:
"Look on my works, ye mighty,
and despair!"
Nothing beside remains
Round the decay of
that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands
stretch far away
"If Liverpool did not exist, it would
have to be invented." [Myrbach]
(# Handel:
Music for the Royal Fireworks)
(# Trumpet voluntary
accompanied by brisk drumming)
(# Trumpet ornamentation continues... )
with a flourish)
We love the place we hate,
then hate the place we love
then spend a lifetime trying to regain it.
Come closer now...
...and see your dreams.
Come closer now... and see mine.
No meat on Friday.
Confession on Saturday,
emerging cleansed
and pleasing to God.
Mass on Sundays,
and Holy days of obligation.
Despite my dogged piety,
no great revelation came.
No divine balm
to ease my soul.
Just years wasted in useless prayer.
If I pray long enough,
I would be forgiven.
If I am forgiven,
I would be made whole.
All I'll need then is the girl.
Suddenly, I knew, suddenly, I thought...
...it's all a lie.
Paradise betrayed.
There was no God, only Satan,
sauntering behind me with a smirk,
saying, "I'll get you in the end".
Tu es Petrus.
You're a brick, Pete.
Here, people married.
Here, people died and were buried.
In deconsecrated Catholic Churches,
now made into restaurants
as chic as anything abroad.
Now the congregation can eat
and drink in the sight of God,
who will, no doubt,
disapprove of cocktails in Babylon.
Is this happiness?
Is this perfection?
As you are now, we once were.
[James Joyce]
(# Tavener:
The Protecting Veil)(# Violin sustains long, lingering notes)
They that go down to the sea
in ships
and that do business in great waters,
these see the works of the Lord,
and his wonders in the deep.
[Anno Domini]
(# Tavener:
The Protecting Veil)(# Violin sustains long, lingering notes)
"Removed from the sight
of happier classes
"poverty may struggle along as it can."
[Friedrich Engels]
(Archive radio report)
'Preston North End 2
- Blackpool 3
'Everton 2 - West Ham United 0
(Radio report fades)
On slow Saturdays,
when football, like life,
was still played in black and white,
and in shorts as long as underwear.
When it was still not venal.
When sportsmen and women
knew how to win and lose with grace
and never to punch the air in victory.
Match over, pea soup made,
my mother calling from the kitchen;
my eldest brother listening to
the football results
in front of the Bakelite radio,
marking his coupon,
hoping to win millions.
Accrington Stanley,
Sheffield Wednesday,
Hamilton Academicals,
Queen of the South.
And on ever slower Sundays,
when it felt as if the whole world was
listening to the "Light Programme",
Kenneth Horne, promptly at 2 o'clock
and long before the repeal
would visit two of
his very special friends.
(Radio) '... I was recommended
to a firm of solicitors in Lincoln's Inn.
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