Hawkwind - We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago Lyrics

Really good song. Great soundscape.

A fifty year old song telling us we've fucked up today . Dave must have seen it coming.

What really makes this track is DikMik's electronics. They elevate what could be a fairly middle-of-the-road strum-along busker song into a weird freaky head exploding Hawkwind mind-melt. Many years later, this track was re-done on the Road To Utopia album and it became a dreadful middle-of-the-road........

One of my hawkwind faves along with lost Jonny and golden void oh and hurry on sundown ☯️🦋🦂🍄🕊🌞🌝🌛🌙🌈🎼🎸🚦🌌💉🔫

Nearly fifty years before the world wide eco demonstrations, Hawkwind was already talking
about the dangers of the decline in the environment. I bought the album back in 1974, and
it always strikes me as a haunting track.


It now becomes horribly prophetic.........

This is one of the greatest songs ever written it's brilliant.

I love these old acoustic tracks by Hawkwind, I wish they had done many more.

5 people took the wrong step years ago

Four people took the wrong step years ago...and they’re doing it again by pressing thumbs down.

We all have what great lyrics & music 🎶 awesome Hawkwind seeing them live at sommerlyton 2006 was amazing 😉

nope we are shake him out now

Braydon Szafranski!!!

40 years and still with always it says it all

I am very proud to have been around awesome music rip Lemmy

Lemmy wasn't on this album. He joined later in year.

Thanx, and... watch out for the new Album in September 2018 :-)

this song is "tight"!

Cool song... although it is step, and not steps.
Jus sayin

Think about the things that we should have done before
The way things are going the end is about to fall
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago

Look around and see the warning close at hand
Already weeds are writing their scriptures in the sand
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago

The morning sun is rising, casting rays across the land
Already nature's calling, take heed of the warning
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago

Think about the things that we should have done before
The way that things are going the end is about to fall
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago
We took the wrong step years ago

I need to smoke more weed.  Reminds me of my youth...

Hawkwind - the supreme!

Stay gold mf

A beautiful track that holds so much meaning today. Dave Brock wrote some of the best music I have been lucky enough to enjoy.

We had this hill in our town near Edinburgh, on the coast. We'd go up when it was windy and the wind was so fierce if you jumped it would blow you ten feet or so back. Natural air time. 2 seconds. It was stunningly cool. The seagulls and i were friends there. This song was always on. It was near a WW2 underground fort, it was covered with Hawkwind slogans, and some very cool Jefferson Airplane quotes, Have you seen the saucers indeed. Every time i play this i get transported beck there. Anyone else hear the gulls in the song? That one person who disliked this was the cop who came up that hill and searched us just in case.

That sounds like a wonderful experience (the wind, not the cop!), and yes, I hear the gulls.

We would do the same as kids,The Nab that overlooks Teesside.The winds would howl.We would raise over arms with our coats outspread and lift off .Thanks for raising that memory. Repect

AH, THE '60'S ARE BACK, LOVE HAWKWIND! THEY'RE UNDERRATED!

It's a 1971 recording

does anybody how to play that guitar part?

D Ras yes

Oh btw, it is multilayered so the overdubs means you have double to learn.

I learned last week that Rab Mathieson of Easterhouse, Glasgow passed away sometime last year. Rab, for the benefit of those who never knew him, was an incredible man with many talents: painting, poetry, songwriting, storytelling and - to cut to the chase, as it were - singing and playing guitar... and it just so happens his voice was uncannily similar to that of Dave Brock's as heard in this wonderful song. This is how all of Rab's songs sounded and listening to Dave makes me hear the wonder of Hawkwind as well as the wonder of Rab. Farewell, my friend, farewell...

tripped to this in 84 stone henge. best night of my life

Stoned Henge :)

thats just unreal hell yeah brother

sure did!

and by the way.....the track starting at 2:06 is just the way you want it to sound when you're banging hard on your acoustic guitar. rhythm and melody at the same time in a fusion.

Dave Brock is credited with the song

They knew back then.

R.I.P. Lemmy.Thank you for the music.

Phil Rogers he did not play on this.

What a perfect mix of Bass and acoustics.

awesome! reminds me of my dad :)

EPIC !!!

this song makes you think .................

very nice .. i like it !

Only a total non-musician could think Children of the Sun and Children of the Revolution have the same riff.
But thanks for the post anyway, Hawkwind Fan.

Try comparing My Size (John Entwistle) with Children of the Revolution ….. different riffs?

It reminds me of being young..

Well said; perhaps mankind is still young. . . inexperienced.

I see one person mistakenly pressed the thumbs down button

Alas the original error has been duplicated by four others, doubtless pressing the thumbs down in error due to mind altering substances. Damn those druggies!

Terry ! NEVER!!!!!!!! REALLY?????.
WELL IM ASTOUNDED seeing it as you are SOUNDS LIKE A MIRROR OF ILLUSION , YOU DEMENTED MAN... WERE ALL CHILDREN OF THE SUN LIVING ON A KNIFE EDGE , DAMNNATION !!! It's a paradox so be yourself space is deep and earth's calling you'd better believe it, there's a golden void on the edge of time....
I'm the master of the universe..the warrior. An urban guerilla you better believe it I'm levitating you shouldn't do that lost Jonny..We took the wrong step years ago there's hundreds of people like you and me.... I'm the last man on earth living in a electric te pee had a brainstorm so of for a valium ten......... hurry on ⛅ sundown ......

globulant99 hippy's DAMNNATION!!!! Assault and 🔋 battery in the alley with a needle gun .And a valium ten you shouldn't do that... Earth's calling the warrior magnu so be yourself..... it's so easy .

Bob Green prolly popped a disco bikkie rather than rolling a sweet fat one :)

5 now obviously silly knee biters that don't know where their towels are.

I was 8 or 9 when my mother what an hippie she is took my to my first concert at the hammersmith odoen to see HAWKWIND one of the best songs I knew then what we were doing to this planet 38yrs ago

Steven Campbell so your 52now ?