Warning warning can’t you hear it
Leave your dreaming yesterday
The Welsh New Wave band Fay Ray (another media reference, this time to the King Kong actress Fay Wray; and completely unrelated to the current Japanese singer fayray ) appear to have released one album, Contact You, in 1982. But they must have made airplay in New Zealand because I distinctly remember shivering to the nuclear apocalypse imagery of “Heatwave”.
I watch the mushroom
As it rises in a cloud
We see the heatwave
But we hear no sound
But it’s the heartbreaking live performance of “Different Morning”, which I only know from this Youtube clip, which sells the band to me. It feels like the perfect description of the Reagan/Thatcher era – an era that feels all too close again.
I live in a country
Where the cold and bleak winds blow
Storm clouds are gathering
Sometimes i wish i didn’t know
We’ve been building a castle
To protect us from the fight
But castle walls will never,
Never keep us safe at night
Warning warning can’t you hear it
Leave your dreaming yesterday
This is a different morning
And we’ve got to break away
Warning warning can’t you hear it
Leave your dreaming yesterday
This is a different morning
Watch the future slip away
Something is changing
Look at everyone you meet
Down in the city
They’re counting numbers in the street
A thousand empty eyes
Looking for trouble in the heat
Warning warning can’t you hear it
Leave your dreaming yesterday
This is a different morning
And we’ve got to break away
Warning warning can’t you hear it
Leave your dreaming yesterday
This is a different morning
Watch the future slip away