Late 1960s

Verse 1

Wado the bear came knocking on my door

Eight-track spooling tapes across the floor

Amplifiers humming like a swarm

Writer in the smoke beside the storm

Dusty fingers on a fader knob

Turn it up and let the whole thing throb

Chorus

Turn the page on sixty-nine

Rewind the reel and let it shine

Heavy bass through hollow walls

History comes when the needle falls

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh the needle falls

Oh-oh-oh the needle falls

Verse 2

Four lads from the dockyards found the sound

Wah-wah pedals shaking holy ground

Jimi bent a note till it was blue

Every rolling tape made something new

Garage doors rattling through the haze

Summer nights dissolving in a phase

Pre-Chorus

And the reel keeps turning round

Every spin a buried sound

Chorus

Turn the page on sixty-nine

Rewind the reel and let it shine

Heavy bass through hollow walls

History comes when the needle falls

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh the needle falls

Oh-oh-oh the needle falls

Verse 3

Smoke rings drifting over studio glass

Sessions bleeding into acid grass

Bozos painted on a quiet van

Every chord a revolution plan

Stereo coming through a cracked old speaker

Louder than the man who tried to seek us

Pre-Chorus

And the reel keeps turning round

Every spin a buried sound

Chorus

Turn the page on sixty-nine

Rewind the reel and let it shine

Heavy bass through hollow walls

History comes when the needle falls

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh the needle falls

Oh-oh-oh the needle falls

Bridge

Somewhere in the archive room a light

Glowing on a forgotten take tonight

Nobody could warn them what was true

The sixties burned and split the world in two

Magnetic ghosts keep humming their refrain

Someday someone's gonna play it all again

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Turn the page on sixty-nine

Rewind the reel and let it shine

Heavy bass through hollow walls

History comes when the needle falls

Outro

Wado and the bear

Wado and the bear

Let it spin beyond the year

Wado and the bear