Rise, Sam & Rimsky Korsakov Lyrics - John Cale

I knew a guitar player once 

Who called the radio friendly 

He felt a kinship, not with the music 

So much as with the radio's voice 

It's synthetic quality, it's voice as distinct 

From the voices coming through it 

It's ability to transmit the illusion 

Of people at a great distance 

He slept with the radio 

He talked to the radio 

He disagreed with the radio 

He believed in a far away radio land 

He believed he would never find this land 

So he reconciled himself to listening to it only 

He believed he had been banned from the radio land 

And was doomed to prowl the airwaves forever 

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Seeking some magical channel 

That would reinstate him to his long lost heritage 

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