Each week, we’ll be posting a brand new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Regular guitarist is visually documenting folks, locations and occasions from his band’s 41-year run, with textual content by vocalist Jean Smith.
I can’t think about who would ever ask me if I’ve any regrets in life. In the event that they did, I may very well be bombast and, like Vince McMahon (of the wrestling-management fame), say I’ve none. However the truthier reply may need one thing to do with considering I may very well be poetic and fewer direct in my lyrics and rely on folks to interpret my phrases and which means the best way I supposed them. Kind of.
What I mentioned in 1995 throughout a time of success we by no means imagined, “Trying to find a way, current in a void, investing in previous lives, honeycomb of doubt. Waxy laughter breaks your knees. Shaking off the frozen rain.”
What I might have mentioned, “Take inventory of communication strategies now, even should you’re alone in it, look to historical past and the way virtually nobody believed fascism might ever take maintain once more. There could but be a time when a cartoon character politician brings you to your knees. Shake off their idiotic recriminations.”
“Frozen Rain” from Sitting On Snaps (Matador, 1995) (obtain):
