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My heart bleeds and I need a friend

Bolan at the height of his powers, Empire Pool, Wembley UK, March 1972. Telegram Sam was the last great T Rex single - the next one Metal Guru went straight to number one in June, but was very much a by-the-numbers affair, and didn't stay long in the charts.

Bolan went downhill quite quickly from here. Within 18 months he was physically almost unrecognizable from the way he appears here (drink and drugs), and his songs were pretty dire as well.

touba??

Not just me that's lost......

Livin' underground like a wild potato
Don't go on the patio
Beware of the pool
Keep off the path
Beware of the gate
Watch out for the signs that say 'hidden driveways'
Don't get the chlorine in your eyes
It blinds you to the awful surprise

Someone's just uploaded this to YouTube within the last few hours. It's interesting as it was performed live for French TV at the Chateau d'Herouville near Paris (Elton John's Honky Chateau), and was essentially a rehearsal for the performance of the song at Wembley the following month.

Bolan's famous 'Larry The Lamb' singing voice wasn't really suited to live performances of heavier numbers like this, but it's still a terrific offering. He's looking very wild and haggard in the final half minute or so - I'm wondering if he'd been on the 'Bolivian Marching Powder', LOL.

The new Birthday Massacre album, it sounds good.

Drank a lot of coffee today
Got lost in the fray, I gave all I had for a time
Then by some strange design I got a case of the empties
The ruler of my world, a lost forgotten pearl
When the fire leaves a girl
Too burned to dry my life
Living on a fault line

Didn't always do it right
Might have left the heat on high
Didn't know I had any left
Thought I finally met my death
Gonna do all I can
Stay away from the quicksand

Nobody's gonna love you the same way
Some of us go astray
I walk so far from them all
Instead of dropping the ball
I seem to carry so many
The colours don't align, a question of time
I seem to lose what I find

Please give me a sign soon
Really wanna find out the truth
And then I just lay down and cry
The waters don't really go by me
Give me something I can see
Something bigger and louder than the voices in me
Something to believe

Just discovered this on YouTube about 30 minutes ago. The most powerful and gloriously raw version of 'Jeepster' I've ever heard, even better than the one from the 1972 Wembley concert. Bolan was actually probably at his peak in mid-late 1971 on this evidence.