Wednesday 5 May 2010

Coney Island


"Anyways, uh let's see what else uh...uh I...It was Coney Island, they called Coney Island the playground of the world. There was no place like it... in the whole world, like Coney Island when I was a youngster. No place in the world like it. It was so fabulous, now it's shrunk down to almost nothing.You see, ahah, and uh I still remember in my mind how things used to be, and uh, y'know I feel kinda very bad. But people from all over the world came here, from all over the wor... it was the playground...they called the playground of the world, over here... anyways, uh, so...but...I...uh...y'know, I even got when I was a...when I was very small I even got lost in Coney Island... but they found me, on the... on the... on the beach. And we used to sleep on the beach here, sleep overnight, but um err, they don't do it anymore, things changed you see. They don't sleep any more on the beach"

Sleep - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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