25 Years on - Hawkwind

- Hawkwind Lyrics

25 Years on, or "Hawklords", was recorded and produced in 1978.Recorded at Langley Farm, in Devon, it was then Mixed and produced at Wessex Studios in the months of June to August 1978.
Hawkwind have always been known for their lineup changes, so here's the Lineup that appeared on 25 Years On.
Bob Calvert: vocals, wobble board, didgereedoo, jaw harp, guitar, percussion
Dave Brock: vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesisers, bass guitar
Harvey Bainbridge: bass guitar, vocals
Steve Swindells: keyboards, vocals
Martin Griffin: drums (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 6 only)
Simon King: drums (tracks 4, 6 – 8 only)
Simon House: violin (tracks 6 – 8 only)
Henry Lowther: guest trumpet
Les McClure: guest vocals

This was a pretty good example of Calvert's influence on the sound of Hawkwind's music (as in "Quark Strangeness and Charm" too, where Calvert's sardonic lyrics and Sci-Fi techno sounding monotone voice lend a much more scientific than magickal ambience to the music). A kind of futuristic rock n' roller in a decaying society is portrayed more than Cosmic paranormal happenings and God like biengs, as is often the rule with Hawkwind (e.g. "space Ritual", Warrior on the Edge of Time", "Doremifasol Latido", and "Chronicle of the Black Sword").
Whatever Hawkwind are emanating for ambient musical projections of Future Realms and timeless truths, the result is always captivating, drawing you into the synthesised worlds, perhaps "Percieved", rather than "Conceived", from some past-future memories drawn out of the Mercurial (Hermes Trismegistus - Mercury; God of Telepathy, Music and Communication) Intergalactic genetic memory-pool and thrown into a haze of sonic landscapes much more descriptive than any language or paintbrush can encapsulate. 25 Years On was released under the Band name "Hawklords", and for me reflects the zietgeist of a whole era in the Traveller-Hippy movement of the U.K. in the early eighties. This was perhaps the best phase of my whole life, and Hawkwind played a massive part in the shaping of the world i then lived in and percieved as my reality.

TRACKLIST

1. Psi Power
2. Free Fall
3. Autumoton
4. 25 Years
5. Flying Doctor
6. The Only Ones
7. Only The Dead Dreams Of a Cold War Kid
8. The Age Of The Micro Man

01.Psi-Power



Lyrics - Psi Power - Hawklords (Hawkwind)
When I was a kid in school
They showed me symbols on a card
Then they sent them from a locked and bolted room
I had to fake that it was hard

Circle, Square, Triangle, Waves
I got crystal clear by the hour
And I said "may I please take a rest?"
I didn't want them to know I was possessed with

PSI Power PSI Power
PSI Power PSI Power
PSI Power PSI Power

I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep

When I was a teenage kid
And I hung around the streets
I could see inside the mind of any girl
That I wanted to meet

Circle, Square, Triangle, Waves
They are open to me like a flower
How would you like to have your mind caressed
Can't you feel that I'd possessed with

PSI Power PSI Power
PSI Power PSI Power
PSI Power PSI Power

PSI Power
PSI Power
PSI Power

I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets you'd rather keep

It's like a radio you can't switch off
There's no way to get peace of mind
I would like to live in a lead-lined room
And leave all this PSI Power behind

Circle, Square, Triangle, Waves
It's a gift that soon turned sour
Why don't they let me get rest
Too much to understand
Too much to digest

PSI Power PSI Power
PSI Power PSI Power
PSI Power PSI Power

I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets you'd rather keep

04.25 Years




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05. Flying Doctor

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07.Only the Dead Dreams of the Cold War Kid

The Age of the Micro Man

It's the age of the Micro Man Who sees the detail but never the plan
It's the time of the tiny creep Who pulls the levers while he falls asleep
Twenty five years of social research
It's the age of the insect man Who pushes buttons and takes back the can
It's the age of the Micro Man Who sees the detail but never the plan
Twenty five years of social research..Twenty five years of social research

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