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Lyrics:-
'Out of the night and out of the dark' - Banks, Collins, Hackett &
Rutherford
Song
Choice:- Well I think it's time for another 'Classic Album' series of
blogs and after listening to 'A Trick of the Tail' in
it's entirety at the weekend, (during my track marathon), I thought
I'd share it with you - It's one of my favourite Genesis albums, and
ridiculously now 41 years old! Yikes, 1976 seems only like yesterday too...
Anyway,
if your world is turned upside down, through no fault of your own, just
like it was for Genesis back in 1975 with the 'Gabriel Departure', then you must
come back stronger and hit harder right from the start if you want to regain
some of your previous successes or even supersede them - sound
familiar? `For Genesis, it certainly paid off...
I'm
not saying that the same will happen of me and I don't think I superseded
anything at the weekend myself, I just regained some self-control and saw some
daylight at the end of my tunnel and came 'Out of the night and out of the
dark', as the song goes.
The
line I really like however is, 'The lava's the lover who licks your boots away'
as that's how it's been feeling for me for so many months now after having my
feet feeling like they were on fire with the GBS but not with normal flames but
with molten-super-white-hot-lava. Some lover eh?
But
do you know what? It would be dead easy to become a victim of all of that
pain and just give into life and the cards that you're dealt but sometimes you
have to put your cards on the table and be able to read your own future in
them. A place where there's light at the end of the tunnel and it's safe to
walk on the cracks in the pavement, because at the end of the day life's
far too short and it's better to have fought than not to have fought at all.
How
bright is your future? Is it Lava-ly?
Rory Coleman - 986 Marathons - 241 Ultras - 13 Marathon des Sables
9 Guinness World Records - 8,470 Days' Alcohol Free
& 1 Inspirational Running Memoir - Get your copy here.
Location: Cardiff, Wales
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