One time in the early 80s, I wound up working for over 40 hours. When I got home, I felt exhausted but not ready to lie down and sleep. I was feeling kinda shattered. I turned on the radio and sat and stared for a while. From the radio, I heard some very weird music and Brian Eno’s voice singing: 

…I can’t see the lines
I used to think i could read between
Perhaps my brains have turned to sand
Oh me oh my
I think it’s been an eternity
You’d be surprised
At my degree of uncertainty
How can moments go so slow.
Several times
I’ve seen the evening slide away
Watching the signs
Taking over from the fading day
Perhaps my brains are old and scrambled…

I’ve gotta say that with the fatigue poisons coursing thru my bloodstream, these lyrics seemed kinda on point.

The lyrics and the music were both weirder than what I was used to. This was impressive since I was used to some pretty weird stuff. Most prominent was some kind of distorted air powered organ. Some of the melodies on the piano seemed OK but others seemed hesitant or uncertain. A quickly plucked electric guitar filled in the bridge. And more keyboards and a chorus ahhing toward the end.

The radio station that I was listening to was notorious for never telling you what music they were playing, but I lucked out this time. When the song ended, the DJ announced that the song was “Golden Hours” from Brian Eno’s Another Green World.

I was already familiar with a couple of Eno’s albums. “Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)” and “801 Live”. Now I had another album to hunt down.

I wrote down the album name and finally went to bed, mentally repeating the song for as long as I could.

Which was about 3 minutes because I was really tired.

On the album cover for “Another Green World”, Eno’s credits for Golden Hours were “Choppy Organs, Spasmodic Percussion, Club Guitars, Uncertain Piano”.

I lifted the lyrics from google music