Crown Of Thorns - Kingdom Come (Single)

When you think of 'work' does your heart immediately sink? I know mine does. That is because I currently associate the word with my present employment. I sit at a computer, tap away at a keyboard (you know how that feels surely?) and make changes to another computer hundreds of miles away. All entirely dependant upon the whim of my customer of course and believe me when I say they enjoy changing their whim. Or the whim is urgent is another one. Or maybe the first whim supplied the worng information and now it needs to be changed - urgently. Anyway, whims aside, at no point does it feel like 'work'. There is no tangible end-product and the results of my actions affect a device, and end user, remote from myself. Yes it is stressful at times but that is a human aspect of having to deal with other people. It can be interesting. But in my mind it is not connected to 'work'.

I put that down to my first full-time job having dropped out of Uni. I was a telephone engineer and it was hard work. I worked mostly on installations (as opposed to repairs) and 95% of the time on my own. The work was hard physically - the areas of Edinburgh I worked in comprised mainly of tenement flats (generally two or four flats to a landing, 3, 4 or sometimes 5 landings around one common stairwell) and this involved a lot of stair climbing carrying numerous pieces of kit (drills, cable drums, ladders) and associated tools (worn in a manly toolbelt). Not only that but the work was typically masculine, and I do mean that in a cliched sense, as it was all manual - running cables, fixing cables to walls, drilling holes, screwing boxes onto walls, connecting cables and wires up, indoors and outdoors come rain or shine, climbing poles and going under floors. And it was varied - each job was different and in a different location, even if it was only a hundred yards up the street. The end result of each job was there for you to see - a working telephone line for a person you were interacting with directly.

While I get paid more for doing my current job, I enjoyed the work of the telephone engineer.


I have posted Crown Of Thorns previously and according to the IRS website there are a few more songs out there but this is the end of what I have.

Steve Soer - Lead Vocals
Malcolm Mehyer - Guitars, Backing Vocals
Keith Finch - Keyboards, Synthesizers
Ty Holden - Bass
Phil Snow - Drums


Crown Of Thorns - Kingdom Come (Single) (Illegal Records ILS0035 1983)

1. Kingdom Come
2. Gone Are The Days

Crown Of Thorns - pwd: c4ctusm0uth