The Spaceport

from This Used To Be The Future by Slowrush

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lyrics

We needed a distraction
A low-key attraction
Something to put us right on the map
For all the right reasons
Spanning four seasons
A blank page was all we had to start

In walked Bob Cotten
With a gentle obsession
To mark out a plot to welcome spacecraft
We took up the suggestion
Mapped out the safe zone
Then all we could do was sit back and relax

Bob Cotten, now look what you’ve done
Bob Cotten, tell us it won’t be long
You know we’re still waiting
Waiting for a sign

With no alien arrivals
We built our own earthly rival
Soon battered and bruised by the wind and the salt
That Jules Verne-like contraption
Failed to gain traction
De Funès inspired the new juggernaut

Bob Cotten, now look what you’ve done
Bob Cotten, tell us it won’t be long
You know we’re still waiting
Waiting for a sign

Bob Cotten, now look what you’ve done
Bob Cotten, tell us it won’t be long
You know we’re still waiting
So patiently waiting
Waiting for a sign

Today it’s still peaceful
The view is as beautiful
As it was all those years ago
Will it ever be disrupted
By anything more active
Than children at play in the fake spacecraft

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from This Used To Be The Future, released July 1, 2022
Music: Dorian Pike, Tim Pike and Olivier Rols
Lyrics: Tim Pike

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Slowrush Bordeaux, France

Slowrush are an Anglo-French three-piece melodic alt-pop band based in Bordeaux, south-western France. Their songs are all about combining catchy tunes and thoughtful lyrics with imaginative arrangements. Slowrush were brought up on The Beatles, Blur and XTC, and today are inspired by Everything Everything, Foals and Electric Soft Parade. ... more

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