Slow Horses is a stylish and popular British spy thriller and we love the theme tune, performed by Sir Mick Jagger.
It’s all about a group of spies exiled to a grubby semi-derelict office building called Slough House because of their career-ending mistakes. There, the service rejects are doomed to spend their remaining years enduring dull, paper-pushing tasks. Strange Game highlights the show's narrative of yearning 'to get back in that game' and 'dance with the big boys again'. And those lyrics reminded us of someone...
Surrounded by losers, misfits and boozers,
Hanging by your fingernails
You made one mistake you got burned at the stake
You’re finished, you’re foolish, you failed.
There’s always a hope on this slippery slope
Somewhere a ghost of a chance
To get back in the game and burn off your shame
And dance with the big boys again.
It’s a strange strange game
A strange strange game
Such a shame shame shame
Yes a strange game
You got to carry the blame
In this strange game
You’re out on a limb and you’re trying to get in
It’s a strange game
You spoiled up the corpses exhausted your sources
Living right under a cloud
The odds are against you, the gods haven’t blessed you
You better get back on the rails
Drill down on the data, keep pushing the paper
The damp’s dripping down on the walls
It’s a million to one there’s a place in the sun
To dance with the big boys again.
It’s a strange strange game
Strange oh so strange
You don’t even know my real name
It’s a strange game
You’ve got to carry the blame
In this strange strange game
You’re out on a limb trying hard to get in
It’s a strange game.
Mick Jagger is superb at impersonating Mick Jagger.
Who John Swinney is meant to be these days remains a wee bit of a mystery but it seems safe to say he’s not convincing as the leader of the main Scottish independence party.
Strange game right enough…
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