{"id":5242,"date":"2011-06-28T23:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:43:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T15:43:12","slug":"the-great-songs-broken-hearted-blues-by-t-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-06\/the-great-songs-broken-hearted-blues-by-t-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Recalling Great Songs–“Broken Hearted Blues” by T.Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"

When most think of the songs of T.Rex<\/strong>, they think of Bang a Gong (Get it On), Jeepster <\/strong><\/em>and many others.\u00a0 But for us, ever since it was released in 1973 on their stupendous album, “Tanx<\/strong>,” we always think first of Marc Bolan’s big-hearted ballad, Broken Hearted Blues<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 And then we hit repeat (in part because the song is too short).\u00a0\u00a0 We will admit that we first heard this song on an 8-track in our cousin’s car (thanks to Mike Gridley for having great taste in the summer of 1973, four years before Marc Bolan’s car-crash death), and until very recently only owned it in vinyl.<\/p>\n

“This is a song, that I wrote when I was young,
\nAnd I called it, the broken hearted blues,
\nThe air on that night, was tempered like a knife,
\nAnd the people wore the face masks of a clown,
\nDawn it was long, misshapen and forlorn,
\nAnd his woman ran away without a smile.<\/p>\n

Days of the earth, are unbroken changeless turf,
\nBut the faces of the men are something else.
\nIn the wind, as a boy, was a spacious sexual toy,
\nBut baby, now he’s a toothless baggy man,
\nWhen the hills of the sun, make you feel that you are young,<\/p>\n

Get good now, and face your face into the wind.<\/p>\n

This is a song, that I wrote when I was young,
\nAnd I called it the broken hearted blues.”<\/p>\n