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[00:00.000]Pushing Thirty (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill
[00:23.461]Seems the fashion's for one-liners these days
[00:26.421]The kind that get up everyone's nose
[00:30.341]So much back-slapping that the vertabrae
[00:33.791]Are fatally exposed
[00:36.631]Me I'm pushing thirty pulling sixteen
[00:40.531]Though much of what's around me is dead
[00:44.361]They got so shirty when I tried to glean
[00:47.741]The meaning from what they'd said:
[00:50.851]"If you wanna be a viable artist when you're twenty-five
[00:54.571]You'd better be a meat-head by the time you're twenty-one"
[00:58.611]But now I'm pushing thirty and I'm still alive
[01:03.761]So tell me who tell me who
[01:06.791]Tell me who yeah tell me who has won
[01:09.761]See the survivors in the upcoming acts
[01:12.571]They and the moguls make a regular killing –
[01:15.461]Others take it lying on their backs
[01:19.481]Young blood is always so willing
[01:23.191]Me I'm pushing thirty that's the way it is
[01:26.911]Too late to change my mind
[01:30.721]They play it dirty in the record biz
[01:34.061]And you've got to toe the line
[01:37.191]If you wanna be an A & R man when the singing's done
[01:40.981]You'd better make sure that you hedge your bets
[01:46.401]Me I'm pushing thirty and still having fun
[01:49.871]I haven't stopped I haven't stopped
[01:53.021]I haven't stopped I haven't stopped that yet
[02:50.185]All the writers watch each other for the way to go
[02:53.455]Follow each other like lemmings –
[02:56.995]Swear they're all waiting for Nicky Lowe
[03:00.155]To turn out like David Hemmings
[03:04.125]Me I'm pushing thirty and the steady zone
[03:07.525]Perhaps I should retire
[03:10.615]But even if it all deserts me and I'm left alone
[03:14.075]I still know that I'm fuelled by fire
[03:17.635]In this rubbish world you've got to keep that under the lid
[03:21.335]'Cos they all hope it'll disappear
[03:26.525]But even though I'm pushing thirty
[03:28.625]Maybe on the skids
[03:30.145]I still can be I still can be
[03:33.115]I still can be I still can be Nadir
[03:50.087]I still can be I still can be
[04:00.687]I still can be Nadir
[04:04.247]Yes I still can be Nadir
[04:06.887]Got a sixteen-year-old heart