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The Shape Of History (4.31)

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Track 13 from Wendy James 10th album The Shape Of History

Wendy: “Some things never change, I’ll always be the wild girl dancing on table tops till dawn. I love the movie ‘Smithereens’ (1982) by director Susan Seidelman (before she made ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’). That movie woke me up, a clarion call! Where I belonged! Where I was headed! Downtown NYC. I had my first crush from that movie! Richard Hell is so pouty, so mean, but quite nice too?! The opening scene with actress Susan Berman as Wren, going down into the subway and stealing the two-tone sunglasses out of the hands of another passenger, all to the hypnotic sound of The Feelies ‘The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness’ was everything I wanted! Wren goes to the Peppermint Lounge every night to hand out flyers for herself. It’s a rock n roll look at broke down NYC, The Bowery and The Lower East Side. For me, this is heaven! My teenage in Ladbroke Grove had it’s share of misdeeds, scrapes and hi capers in the West London underworld, but when I listen to my New York musician friends talk about their time in no electricity lofts, no elevators, rats, junkies, thieves, my heart goes zing! So that’s what this is! It’s ‘The Shape Of History’ my history. It’s Desperately Seeking Susan, It’s Smithereens, it’s Scorsese’s ‘After Hours’ it’s CBGB, it’s Max’s Kansas City, The Peppermint Lounge, it’s downtown NYC, it’s Cindy Wilson screaming “I’ll give you fish, I’ll give you candy” It’s me, forever, dancing on tables tops til dawn.”

Lyrics

Age deepens all feelings you innocent goon
We are moving toward the end of the past tense
Obsolete, giggling, shrieking, tumbling “You go girl, you go!”
Turned upside down by the stereo boom, wall to wall
Dancers flipped, it hit a nerve, it’s going to be fun from now on

The social kiss, life’s a gas, with a camera flash
Pow Flash Pow Blam “Hey, I saw you on tv last night”
This is the moment, it could be so perfect, 331/3, 45, 78
Feel it! It is a feeling, we really got down in there
Here is everything we want, right here in so many hearts

Beautiful things can happen
Survey the scene with a half smile on
The Shape Of History
Her cotton candy, bright blonde hair
Fine boned face, like a star
She turns on The Shape Of History

Some days when she wakes up, she doesn’t feel like getting up at all…
No music! No clothes! Not seeing anyone at all!
No dancing on tabletops till dawn, no bums, no creeps, no hangers on, no phonies
She is happy, just doing nothing, she is not talking, let someone else do the talking
There is not a minute to spare, chin up, put your hands like this…

Beautiful things can happen
Survey the scene with a half smile on
The Shape Of History
Her cotton candy, bright blonde hair
Fine boned face, like a star
She turns on The Shape Of History

Beautiful things can happen
Survey the scene with a half smile on
The Shape Of History
Her cotton candy, bright blonde hair
Fine boned face, like a star
She turns on The Shape Of History
Credits

Written and Produced and Mixed by Wendy James

Recording Engineer – Tomas Gagliardo assisted by Rosendo Zinny at LeMob Studios, West London, UK, Al Lawson at Mix Studios, West London, UK, Ben Rice at Degraw Sound, Brooklyn NY, USA

Mix Engineer: Jesse Nichols at Atomic Garden West Recording Studio, Oakland, CA. USA

Mastering Engineer: Frederic Kevorkian at Kevorkian Mastering Inc. Brooklyn, NY, USA

Lead & Backing Vocals – Wendy James
Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Piano, Keys, Clarinet – Alex Ward
Additional Lead & Rhythm Guitar – Louis Eliot
Piano, Organs, Keys – Dave ‘The Moose’ Sherman
Bass – Harry Bohay
Drums & Percussion – James Sclavunos

Artwork Design – Wendy Jame & Noah Eve
Photography and Video – David Leigh Dodd

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All songs written and composed by Wendy James. Released by The Wendy James Label. P & C Wendy James 2024. All rights reserved.