First track from the long serving British psychedelic/folk-rock band Hawkwind’s debut album of the same name. Hawkwind are one of these bands that I hear about from time to time but their music I don’t know much about. These guys have one of the longest discographies I’ve ever seen! I came across this song when it became available as a download from another music blog, can’t remember the actual name of the blog so if your reading this let me know and I’ll give a big shout out for introducing this song to me.

The track was then put on a random playlist of songs that I create every now and then of songs that I have but never really listen to and from there the song slowly crept up on me. The song starts slowly with a mandolin-like stringed instrument kick off and takes off from there into a 5-minute jam with the trusted harmonica as the central musical instrument. Below is the entire lyrical content of the song and in my opinion epitomises what a great song can do with so little words.

Well hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Hurry on sundown
See what tomorrow brings
Well it may bring war
Any old thing
Well look into your mind’s eye
See what you can see
There’s hundreds of people like you and me.
Hurry on Sundown X 3

When listening to the lyrics you are reminded of those awful days that you just want an end to in the hope that tomorrow will bring something better. Check out a great live version here and enjoy.

If anyone has any recommendations to any other Hawkwind songs and/or albums that I should get my hands on please leave a comment.

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