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Girl In Blue
This song has its origins back in the early Pork Sirens days of 1980. I have an early version of this song on tape, which we recorded in the farm attic and basically it was just a repetitive version of the opening bass line that appears on the newer version. I thought that I'd have to re-write it because as it stood in its original form it might not be very interesting so I tried to add some chords and other bits to it, and really it sounds nothing like the old version now - just the opening bass line as a reminder. For the intro on the old version I used to play the line to 'London Bridge is falling down'. On the new version I wrote a different line and asked Dave to change the guitar notes I had into a string sound and give it a kind of hymn quality. The song subject remained the same (the loss of innocence, and the realisation that everything decays). The little girl can represent innocence, mankind or the Earth, or nothing at all, whatever you prefer. I changed only a few words from the original version, but left out a couple of verses that weren't needed. Dickey suggested using the Hammond organ sound on it, which gave it a 'Stranglers Feel' in places - The Stranglers are one of his favourite bands.
Hitchcock Moments: Well 'moment' - it's my droning voice before the first verse.
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