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Reyrolle Days

from Live and Kicking by Musical Juice

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Recorded in February 1971 at Newcastle Mayfair Ballroom with Family. This was a special night for us. Family had been our favourite band since their Music in a Doll's House album. It was a real privilege for us to meet and appear alongside such a highly respected group of musicians.

This song was a swipe at the apprenticeship system in place in Britain in those days. We had all just served our time as engineering apprentices and it had left its mark. 'Serving time' is analogous to a prison sentence and that's exactly how it felt for us, spending the best years of our young lives cooped up in a factory with thousands of other disenchanted workers.

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We were all so young, not turned seventeen
When we started on those Reyrolle days
Bound till twenty one and we’d not be free
Spent those precious years in a shallow place
But I was just a kid, how could I ever know
What might lie in store along the way?
Much too immature to ever realise
I’d come to hunger for those Reyrolle days

They stole the dreams from you, took the best of times
As we stumbled through those Reyrolle days.
Taught us what to do, tried to change our minds
From a dazzling view to an empty space
But we were shining lights, we were young at heart
Not yet ready for those factory ways
So we spread our wings and we flew apart
Never more to live those Reyrolle days

I’m much older now and so wide awake
As I look back on those Reyrolle days
I’ve won through somehow from some bad mistakes
And the tears have dried upon my face
And though at last it seems that what I have is real
All my hopes were lost without a trace
But I still have dreams and I long to feel
The way I felt back in those Reyrolle days

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from Live and Kicking, released May 12, 2014

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We are an indie rock band who compose original songs that have a story to tell. Our music is heavy with strong melody lines and close vocal harmonies. Stories of circumstances and events that may have also touched your life and we hope will have a special meaning for you. ... more

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