I remember the Supertramp album ‘Breakfast In America’ on which this song was to be found and what a totally wonderful album that was. ‘Breakfast In America’ itself was a great song as was ‘Goodbye Stranger’ but the ‘Logical Song’ stands out as a true classic.
Allegedly written by Roger Hodgson while still at school, I recall seeing this on ‘Top Of The Pops’ back in 1979 and even as an eleven year old realised that the world really does want to mould and shape us and make us conform which is not necessarily a good thing.
I remember when I was at east 15 and Maggie Walker (the principal and founder) telling us that a baby (one of which I have at home now) makes the most phenomenally loud noise when crying even though its tiny and has tiny lungs and yet we could never hope to make such a noise! The reason being that as we grow up we are taught to reign in our natural urge to scream and cry and even though are lungs are much larger we can’t ever seem to get back there… For me ‘The Logical Song’ sums this all up….
Enjoy the song….
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