Just to show I do not suffer from triskaidekaphobia (fear of the 13th), I am choosing today to launch a new initiative, a weekly Bob Wilson song from the archives. I was inspired to do this by the late Joe Lynch, who posted a weekly poem on Sundays until he was no longer able.
The archive is deep, let me tell you. Someone asked the other night how many songs I had written and answered in my usual bashful way, “well there’s 80 or so on albums and downloads” but in truth, there are very many more that have never seen the light of day for one reason or another. Mending Fences was on Big Country Town, our first studio album with 13 tracks (there’s that number again).
The lyrics are a little hard to discern in the video, notwithstanding my occasional searching for a word (or a line). The lyrics are on the album). A made-up story, dedicated to Rebecca Wright who was in the audience and who once had purple hair.
An earnest young Asian man approached me after a gig and said “Ah, that excellent song about mending fences…” Yes I replied, doubtfully.”
“In China there is no Year of the Bull.”
So he was listening!
