'80: London by Jetpack - The Magnetic Fields

London by Jetpack

It can be done

What we spend on fuel

We’ll make in film

From the ICA

To Abbey Road in seconds

On high rooftops

We’ll dance the Twist

I spent August in London when

The New Romantics reigned

And though I was oblivious then

My love has never waned

My roots are New Romantic as

Some critics have complained

London by Jetpack

My verse novel

When teenagers fly

They change the sky

It’s not the going up

It’s not the coming down

It’s the zooming 'round

The speed, the sex

When I am monarch of the world

Weighed down by matters weighty

I’ll live in London once more

And decree it’s 1980

That all may dress as Pierrots

And pirates, like their king

And all will have jetpacks

From club to club we’ll go zooming

At the club with no name

We’ll dance again

Vivienne Westwood

Will be my queen

There will be no army

Only the Blitz

It’s not the going up

It’s not the coming down

London by Jetpack

I’ll write you yet