surgidos do nada no início dos anos setenta, os television foram a segunda grande banda novaiorquina após os velvet underground.
uma coisa engraçada, passados estes anos todos, é haver quem diga que eram um grupo proto-punk mas também quem afirme que eram um grupo pós-punk - tendo eles sempre passado ao lado do movimento punk.
escrita por tom verlaine, esta canção ainda hoje mantém intacta a essência do que foram aqueles anos.



I remember how the darkness doubled
I recall lightning struck itself.
I was listening, listening to the rain
I was hearing, hearing something else.

Life in the hive puckered up my night,
The kiss of death, the embrace of life.
There I stand neath the Marquee Moon 
Just waiting, hesitating... I ain't waiting.

I spoke to a man down at the tracks.
I asked him how he don't go mad.
He said "Look here Junior, don't you be so happy
And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad".

Well a Cadillac, it pulled out of the graveyard.
Pulled up to me, all they said get in.
Then the Cadillac, it puttered back into the graveyard.
And me, I got out again.