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Popular Music's Lifetime Achievement from the forthcoming album Minor Works, by the group Popular Music. Popular Music is Zac Pennington (née Parenthetical Girls) and Prudence Rees-Lee. More to come. Directed by Prudence Rees-Lee. Lifetime Achievement on Bandcamp: Lifetime Achievement on Spotify: There’s a stranger in the spotlight centerstage He reads from a list of names I wait backstage In some nameless hotel basement banquet hall I come when my name is called The audience stands As the stage producer cues the pre-recorded band The “Fanfare For the Common Man” And from the stage It’s strange how the footlights shroud the faces of the crowd They’ve paused the applause sign now The moment has come The roll of the drum Stripped to the waist In front of grace and god and everyone We know what you’ve done “...and on behalf of all assembled here, To mark the end of this illustrious career…” But I’m still not clear How long have we been here? Or even where it is we are I remember a darkened car Then years flash by And sometimes the memories drift to better fit the rhyme Six lines in the New York Times The moment has come And thy will be done Is that the sound of Sarah Brightman singing “Requiem”? Sent down from above And the crowd, they’re throwing flowers now There’s a coronation with a pastel paper crown And when the spotlight’s just right The flashbacks and cataracts They make like second-sight All soft-focus sequined white The moment has come The moment is done Lift up your lace In front of grace and god and everyone The end has begun
