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Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Lou Reed
August 1973
‘Standin' on a corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack’s in his corset, Jane is in her vest
And me I’m in a rock ‘n’ roll band’
I’m pretty sure the red case contained a cello, not the most rock ‘n’ roll of instruments, but the nearest I’ve got in a month of trying to get this picture!
‘Jack he is a banker, and Jane she is a clerk’. Naturally, nothing in any way wrong with either job, but I guess most of us end up compromising in life, and at some stage dreams fade. On a positive note though, I think the song points out that we are not defined by our jobs, and that just as Jack has his ‘Sweet Jane’ there’s plenty to enjoy in life.
‘But anyone whoever had a heart
They wouldn’t turn around and break it.’
91116 gets underway from York with 1E23 16:30 Edinburgh Waverley to London King’s Cross on the evening of 23rd March 2018.
Thank you to my Flickr friend Stuart Warr for kindly allowing me to show this wonderful 1990s take at York station on a similar theme:
www.flickr.com/photos/123410911@N03/14732441529/in/datepo...
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane
Lou Reed
August 1973
‘Standin' on a corner
Suitcase in my hand
Jack’s in his corset, Jane is in her vest
And me I’m in a rock ‘n’ roll band’
I’m pretty sure the red case contained a cello, not the most rock ‘n’ roll of instruments, but the nearest I’ve got in a month of trying to get this picture!
‘Jack he is a banker, and Jane she is a clerk’. Naturally, nothing in any way wrong with either job, but I guess most of us end up compromising in life, and at some stage dreams fade. On a positive note though, I think the song points out that we are not defined by our jobs, and that just as Jack has his ‘Sweet Jane’ there’s plenty to enjoy in life.
‘But anyone whoever had a heart
They wouldn’t turn around and break it.’
91116 gets underway from York with 1E23 16:30 Edinburgh Waverley to London King’s Cross on the evening of 23rd March 2018.
Thank you to my Flickr friend Stuart Warr for kindly allowing me to show this wonderful 1990s take at York station on a similar theme:
www.flickr.com/photos/123410911@N03/14732441529/in/datepo...