Novas 5.5: This Song Sends Love Through
Act 2: Convergence
09 Split Enz – Poor Boy (1980, New Zealand) JACK
My love is alien
I picked her up by chance
She speaks to me with ultra-high frequency
A radio band of gold
Gonna listen till I grow old
Oooh
What more can a poor boy do?
What more can a poor boy do?
The crackle of the radio
A message in the evening sky
You're looking at an interplanetary Romeo
I'll never see her face
Between us there's too much space
Oooh
What more can a poor boy do?
What more can a poor boy do?
Keep losing you
What more can a poor boy do?
What more can a poor boy do?
Jack and Susan resume their relationship, although she is now an energy being.
A classic Kiwi anthem.
10 Mike Oldfield ft Anita Hegerland – The Time Has Come (1987, England) ENERGY BEING SUSAN
A thousand years they waited for
Someone who would be true
And now the empty years have passed
The sunlight shines anew
Someone who knows no fear
I feel him near
The child was born to be a king, a king
And the time has come
He tamed the wild winds as he passed
The birds and beasts they knew
Until he came to rest at last
The tall gates he passed through
Someone who knows no fear
I feel him near
The child was born to be a king, a king
And the time has come
And now the story's just begun
A thousand years to stay
We wake each morning with the sun
To live our dreams away
Someone who knows no fear
I feel him near
The child was born to be a king, a king
And the time has come
Susan communicates a vision of Earth’s future.
What I love about this song is that it’s just so slightly off-kilter. It doesn’t let you quite get comfortable.
11 Tim Blake – Song For A New Age (1978, England) JACK and THE NOVAS
Years ago when Man was younger
Other people roamed this place
So find the signs they left behind them
And tune into a new age race
It's a new age
Harmony, science and love
Joining together and building a new age
Regenerates our Earth
It's a new age
Harmony, science and love
Living and laughing inside a new age
Is better for you my love
Beat the paths that gave us birth
Turning on to Mother Nature
And build a new age here on Earth
It's a new age
Harmony, science and love
Joining together and building a new age
Regenerates our Earth
It's a new age
Harmony, science and love
Living and laughing inside a new age
Is better for you my love
Ley lines glowing all around
Listen to those inner voices
And turn the planet on with sound
It's a new age
Harmony, science and love
Joining together and building a new age
Regenerates our Earth
It's a new age
Harmony, science and love
Joining together that's building a new age
Joining together that's love
The Novas begin a tour as society crumbles.
Tim Blake’s ‘Blake’s New Jerusalem’ is a remarkable little album. I assume from the lyrics it was designed to be played live at Glastonbury.
12 Renaissance – Northern Lights (1978, England) ENERGY BEING SUSAN
Desination outward bound
I turn to see the northern lights behind the wing
Horizons seem to beckon me
Learned how to cry too young
So now I live to sing
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
Horizons seem to beckon me
Learned how to cry too young
So now I live to sing
Though it's hard away from you
Travelling roads and just passing through
It's not for money and it's not for fame
I just can't explain, sometimes it's lonely
Marking the space between the days
Early hours pass away
I sing to you of northern lights
I sing for you of northern nights
Past or future, here or there
Shelter comes in words from you, so talk to me
I hear your voice, it comforts me
In morning dreams I take your hand
You walk with me
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
Peace enfolds the still night air
Home again I look for you and find you there
Destination homeward now
Take the easy way, bring me down
Making the hard way now I see
Hard to be really free
I'm missing you near me
Marking the space between the days
Early hours pass away
I sing to you of northern lights
I sing for you of northern nights
The northern lights are in my mind
They guide me back to you
The northern nights are in my eyes
They guide me back to you
Susan haunts the ionosphere.
I remember this beautiful song from the 80s. It always seemed to me like it wanted a slightly more esoteric setting than just the loneliness of touring, so I gave it one.
13 The Phoenix Foundation – Hitchcock (2005, New Zealand) THE PROBE
Instrumental
14 Kansas – Hold On (1980, USA) JACK and THE NOVAS
Look in the mirror and tell me
just what you see
What have the years of your life
taught you to be?
Innocence dying in so many ways
Things that you dream of are lost
Lost in the haze
Hold on
Baby hold on
Cause it's closer than you think
And you're standing on the brink
Hold on
Baby hold on
Cause there's something on the way
Your tomorrow's not the same as today
Don't you recall what you felt
when you weren't alone
Someone who stood by your side,
a face you have known
Where do you run
when it's too much to bear?
Who do you turn to in need
when nobody's there?
Hold on
Baby hold on
Cause it's closer than you think
And you're standing on the brink
Hold on
Baby hold on
Cause there's something on the way
Your tomorrow's not the same as today
Outside your door he is waiting
waiting for you
Sooner or later you know
he's got to come through
No hesitation and no holding back
Let it all go
when you know you're on the right track
Hold on
Baby hold on
(hold on to me baby)
Cause it's closer than you think
And you're standing on the brink
Hold on
Baby hold on
(yeah I need you by my side)
Cause there's something on the way
Your tomorrow's not the same as today
Hold on
Baby hold on
(I got to talk to you baby)
Cause it's closer than you think
And you're standing on the brink
Hold on
Baby hold on
(there's something round the corner)
There's something on the way
Your tomorrow's not the same
Hold on
A dimensional gateway opens.
A song written on the verge of a spiritual awakening.
15 Debbie Harry and Robin Zander – Send Love Through (1983, USA/Canada) JACK and SUSAN
ahh-ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh-ahh
Oh what will the signal be
for your eyes to see me?
So I still will set the stage
Send my thoughts to you
We're receiving every wave
This song sends love through
Now as one we're gonna show
It's our one desire
From this day we'll always know
How our love grows higher
Now as one we'll set the stage
Focus love on you
I'm receiving every wave
This song sends love through
ahh-ahh-ahh
Now as one we're gonna show
It's our one desire
From this day we'll always know
How our love grows higher
Now as one we'll set the stage
Focus love on you
I'm receiving every wave
This song sends love through
Send love through
In the out, up the down
Send love through
Simple things become confused
Under pressure, boiling steam
On the edge you'll bust your dream
Send love through
Give it all, it's up to you
Send love through
I wanna get through to you
I wanna send my love to you
Are you sure you're in the mood?
ahh-ahh-ahh
Send my love to you
Send love through
Music means so much to you
Gotta come through, cause you're in the mood
Send love through
You gotta come through
me and you, me and you
Our love is going through
Love to you
Send love through, me and you
Jack and Susan tune the gateway as an apocalyptic battle rages.
The second part of the Rock and Rule song as it appeared in the movie.
16 Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill (1977, England) JACK
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city lights
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing, stretching every nerve
Had to listen, had no choice
I did not believe the information
Just had to trust imagination
My heart going boom boom boom
Son he said
Grab your things I've come to take you home
To keeping silence I resigned
My friends would think I was a nut
Turning water into wine
Open doors would soon be shut
So I want from day to day
Though my life was in a rut
Till I thought of what I'd say
Which connection I should cut
I was feeling part of the scenery
I walked right out of the machinery
My heart going boom boom
Hey, he said
Grab your things I've come to take you home
Yeah back home
When illusion spin a net
I'm never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free
Watched by empty silhouette
Who close their eyes but still can see
No one taught them etiquette
I will show another me
Today I don't need a replacement
I'll tell them what the smile on my face ment
My heart going boom boom boom
Hey I said
you can keep my things they've come to take me home
Jack leaves the Novas, and Earth, to accompany Susan.
A deceptively simple sounding song but it really isn’t.
End of Act 2