Apple Cider Reconstitution by Al Stewart

Album: Modern Times (1975)

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This song is Al's fantasy about a couple making love on an abandoned railway station from his boyhood. Alastair Ian Stewart was born in Glasgow in 1945 but his widowed mother moved to the South West of England when he was young. By 1952 they were living in a bungalow on a hill at Wilmcote in Warwickshire; the local station had been closed down and seemed overgrown and abandoned. He wrote the song some twenty years after leaving. >>
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Alexander - London, England

Comments: 3

Loz Butler from England, Just Back From Southern UsaI used to be very pedantic about language too, but 'growed' out of it. If Al Stewart had used the word underground, it would have scanned poorly and might have been read literally (per underworld or even interrment). Later, he talks about London transport taking us "...to the Earl's Court Road...", which brings us lyrically above ground again, but requires our legs!
He is a poetic lyrical artist and I congratulate him for the canvas of this song as well as the whole album, which I cherish on original vinyl.
Libby from KentuckySame as ' Modern Times' - a combination of British and American english. Not one of my faves.
Incognito from LondonIt is very odd that he uses the phrase "subway station" in this otherwise fantastic song. I would have said that it was an appeal to an American audience, but this is such a location-specific song, it just doesn't add up.

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