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Man in Sandwich Board

from Holding Hands in Petropolis by Robert Rotifer

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lyrics

I got into the lift on the top floor at John Lewis
But it turned out to be a time machine
Not one of those fancy jobs
With all those flashing lights and knobs
One that only takes you back
To where you've already been

I'd already pressed the button
Down to the second floor
So it took me back some 30, 40 years
But in the mirror I could see
This was not the youthful me
Just the old man that I am in the now and here

Just like the man in sandwich board
That I saw stand and get ignored
In the middle of Oxford Street in 1984
He was the man in sandwich board
And he was there to be ignored
I pushed past him as I stepped out of the door

I saw a banner on a bus it said 'Save the GLC'
So with my knowledge I felt my responsibility
Oh I just had to tell the world
Of all the trouble to unfurl
Push humanity off its dark trajectory

And that's how I got to be
The man in sandwich board
Oh I would stand and be ignored
In the middle of Oxford Street in 1984
You all walked past the man in sandwich board
Yes I was there to be ignored
Should I just give up and get rich
Predicting football scores?
But I don't remember any, it's so long ago

Yes, I'm the man in sandwich board
Here I stand and get ignored
In the middle of Oxford Street in 1984
Yes I'm the man in sandwich board
And no one knows I know the score
Oh no one ever listens to the man
In the sandwich board

Man in a sandwich board
The man in a sandwich board
Man in a sandwich sandwich board
The man in a sandwich board
Man in a sandwich sandwich board
The man in a sandwich

credits

from Holding Hands in Petropolis, released September 15, 2023
Robert Rotifer: Guitar, bass, vocals
Fay Hallam: keys
Helen McCookerybook: backing vocals

Ian Button: drums, backing vocals


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Robert Rotifer Canterbury, UK

Robert Rotifer is a musician, writer, sometime artist, singer (of sorts), born in Vienna deep in the last century, He moved to the UK just before it ended (the century, that is), has made some 11 or 12 albums and has been lucky enough to play in bands he rates with people who also turned up on his records over the years.

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