Roll me over Romeo ...
A finer three minutes and 6 seconds for dancing around the room with your six year old boy you will not find. Funky little guitar riff and horns pumping enough to take down city walls. Dig it.
One more time ...
Standing on the highest hill with a sense of wonder ... Pictures painted once again of the glory of natural creation in this deeply moving psalm. Van and companion, once more down in Avalon, as "suffering long time angels," the wonder revealed, by the beauty which surrounds them, that everything was made in God. A revelation which returns a sense of lost innocence. There is also a feeling of frustration contained within the title that this is still something not yet achieved, that despite the knowledge being accepted it is all too easy to be distracted. This God is a presence in which all things are created "down through the history of time." One that "is and was in the beginning and evermore shall be." The pilgrimage route of "turning down the old and bringing up the new" is a highly personal one as "you've got to do it your own way." The lyrics and melody wonderfully complimented by a passionate solo from Georgie Fame.
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