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The writing on the wall

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I have no idea what it says or why it's there. It's simply interesting and kind of weirdly beautiful...

It's best watched as a slideshow.

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	hanni says: Wow, where is this? Posted 88 months ago. ( permalink )
	Meg Pickard says: It's a song from Hair: The Flesh Failures / Let the Sun Shine in. "we starve look at one another / short of breath walking proudly in our winter coats / wearing smells from laboratories / facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy / listening for the new told lie / with supreme visions of lonely tunes somewhere inside / something there is a rush of greatness / who knows what stands in front of our lives / i fashion my future on films in space / silence tells me secretly / everything everything / singing my space songs on a spider-web sitar" Posted 88 months ago. ( permalink )
	blech says: That writing's been there for at least six years; I wrote it all down on a Palm ages ago. I don't know exactly where it is in the Covent Garden area, but I think, from looking at an A-Z, that it might be on Shelton Street. I remember it being just down the side of a Budgens (or similar) convenience store, if that helps. Posted 88 months ago. ( permalink )
	blech says: Definitely Shelton Street, London. WC2H 9JU or thereabouts. Posted 86 months ago. ( permalink )
	lynetter says: It's right near where I used to work in a little alley that there's only room to walk in (no cars). If you go to Parker Street, walk down it away from Holborn towards Covent Garden... at the end turn right & crossover, and then the alley is just on your left. It usually smells. But it's a nice shortcut and I always loved it for the graffitti. It's at the end of Shelton Street but don't think it's actually got a name, it's just an alleyway between buildings. It's near the arrow on this map www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530331&Y=1812... Posted 84 months ago. ( permalink )
	lucky_luke09 says: The lyrics are from 'The Flesh Failures / Let the Sun Shine In', from the movie sountrack to 'Hair' Can be found here: (WARNING: set your pop-up blockers to Stun) www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/h/hairlyrics/fleshfail... Looks like whoever it was got disturbed towards the end of the chorus... Posted 83 months ago. ( permalink )
	musiquegirl says: oh wonderful, wonderful..., love the perspective Posted 82 months ago. ( permalink )

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