Fair go Peter, we could fill the whole thread with “Burning Deck” variants.
Agree with SY that Bolan (or his ghostwriter, if there was one) had the knack for cherry-picking evocative words and phrases. Like sketch artists who have incredible economy of line but instil the whole mood of a picture.
Have long admired the clever use of tense in Pink Floyd’s
Eclipse.
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that’s to come