Blur - This Is A Low (The Late Show 1994)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUKBi2Mxe2o
  • Blur – This Is A Low live on BBC2, The Late Show: Mercury Music Prize, 1st and/or 2nd September 1994 (Broadcast on 13th September)
  • A song about the Shipping Forecast, broadcast several times a day on BBC Radio 4.
  • The iconic broadcast is nightly at 0:50am
  • Songwriters: Damon Albarn / Graham Leslie Coxon / Alexander Rowntree David / Alexander James Steven

Lyrics

And into the sea
Goes pretty England and me
Around the Bay of Biscay
And back for tea
Hit traffic on the Dogger Bank
Up the Thames to find a taxi rank
Sail on by with the tide
And go to sleep
(And the radio says)

This is a low
But it won’t hurt you
When you’re alone
It will be there with you
Findin’ ways to stay solo

Up the Tyne, Forth and Cromarty
There’s a low in the high forties
Saturday’s locked away on the pier
Not fast enough, dear
And on the Malin head
Blackpool looks blue and red
And the Queen, she’s gone ’round the bend
Jumped off Land’s End
(And the radio says)

This is a low
But it won’t hurt you
When you’re alone
It will be there with you
Findin’ ways to stay solo

This is a low
But it won’t hurt you
When you’re alone
It will be there with you
This is a low
But it won’t hurt you
When you’re alone
It will be there with you
Findin’ ways to stay solo

This Is a Low lyrics © Warner/chappell Music Ltd, Kobalt Music Services Ltd Kms, Extra Mile Music Limited, Wixen Music (uk) Ltd

Poems have been written about the Shipping Forecast, so deeply is it entrenched in the minds of Radio 4 listeners.

The Shipping Forecast

In the stillness of the night, the air hangs heavy with anticipation

The Shipping Forecast echoes across the waves, a whispered promise of guidance

From the cliffs above, the lighthouse stands tall and steadfast

Its beam of light slicing through the darkness, a beacon of hope for those at sea

The words of the forecast dance on the wind, a language of the ocean

Names like Dogger, Fisher, German Bight, spoken with reverence and respect

Each line a map of the unseen world below, a roadmap for the sailors

Navigating the treacherous waters, guided by the wisdom of those who came before

Through the fog and the rain, the wind and the waves, they press on

Their hearts anchored to the shore, their souls intertwined with the sea

And as the forecast fades into the distance, its words etched into the fabric of the night

The sailors carry on, their spirits unbroken, their journey far from over

For in the Shipping Forecast, they find not just a warning, but a promise

Of safe passage, of distant shores, of home.

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