To add to Bonnie's songs of walking posts, here's Everything but the Girl walking the streets of London:
I walk the city late at night
Does everyone here do the same?
...
There's a river in my head
Updated: I was wondering about the title of this song and my guess its a Tempest reference:
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange
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Oh phooey! Blocked in the US on copyright grounds. :(
Here we go, this one's good for the US.
River Deep
Reminds me I really should start carrying my camera & taking pictures during these expeditions!
Doh! regional copyrighting is a pain. Thanks for finding the replacement which also works here in the UK
I've noticed that many tracks from that album seem to relate to walking the streets - such as the next one Low Tide of the Night which includes lines like:
Soho in the high tide of the day
And for a while I'm swept away -
I just forget it
I use my walkman when I walk
And I don't talk
Plus Hatfield 1980:
Suburbia, 1 am, you're walking home again
shopping bags and broken glass
I hate going through the underpass
I wish there was some other way around
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