Memory of a Free Festival

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I love how this song changes moods so often and how it's basically 3 songs in one. Apparently Bowie's record company tried to push this as a single. And HIS version was a minute longer than mine. Needless to say, it was not commercially successful. But it's special to me--it's got storytelling, communal love, the appreciation of the fleeting, and a good ol' fashioned hand-clappin' party. What's not to enjoy?

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Maybe I should announce it?
Should I?
In memory of a free festival

The children of the summer's end gathered in the dampened grass
We played our songs and felt the London sky
Resting on our hands -- it was God's land
It was ragged and naive -- it was Heaven

Touch, we touched the very soul
Of holding each and every life
We claimed the very source of joy ran through
It didn't, but it seemed that way
I kissed a lot of people that day

Oh, to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy
That swept that afternoon
To paint that love upon a white balloon

And fly it from the toppest top of all the tops that man has pushed
Beyond his brain
Satori must be something just the same

We scanned the skies with rainbow eyes and saw machines
Of every shape and size
We talked with tall Venusians passing through

And Peter tried to climb aboard but the Captain shook his head
And away they soared,
Climbing through the ivory vibrant cloud
Someone passed some bliss among the crowd
And we walked back to the road, unchained

The sun machine is coming down
and we're gonna have a party

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from Memory of a Free Festival, released January 22, 2021
By David Bowie
Copyright Essex Music International

Additional vocals provided by Shannon Munro

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Michael C. Stettes is an artist surviving in the No Man's Land between Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD.

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