Brown-Out On Olympus

(Blegvad/Partridge)

Orpheus - The Lowdown

Recordings Art Lyrics Chords and Tablature

Recordings

1. Album version.
   Performed by Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge.
   Released on 23 February 2004 on the Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge album Orpheus - The Lowdown in the U.K.
   Drums by Ralph Salmins, recorded by Haydn Bendall at Abbey Road Studios, London.

Art

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Lyrics

The gods slump listless on Olympus. Mighty Zeus himself seems dimmed. The others have shrunk, lost in the folds of their clothes.

They'd set Orpheus a task: to build a city in a day, and Orpheus had done it. The gods are stunned by their miscalculation.

There's only so much power to go around. If a guy like Orpheus taps into the supply, there'd be a brown-out on Olympus.

They could set him a harder task. But in his attempt to do the impossible he might burn out the divinity-generator and then where would they be?

The gods picture themselves small, exposed on the slopes, feeling their way in the dark, impotent, mortal.

Chords and Tablature

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