Sunday, June 8, 2008

You can halt your car for an afternoon in Utopia

One of my favorite music groups is Alphaville. They’re an eclectic pop group which began operations in 1984 with their smash hit Forever Young. Not the Bob Dylan song. Not the Rod Stewart song. The one they used in Napoleon Dynamite. On their second album, they recorded a great song which they put on their second album. The album was title Afternoons in Utopia. The song was at the very end of the album, which was the ONLY place it COULD go. It was a short ditty named Lady Bright. She could’ve dated Albert Einstein. They lyrics are as follows:


There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster, much faster than light
She departed one day in a relative way
And returned on the previous...


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