IT DON’T TAKE A GENIUS

No show
You’re not a social one
You walk the streets alone

In the night time
Wishing that long lost friends would take you home

The neighbors with their holiday families
you secretly wanted to join...
As moonlight bounces off their driveways
Lighting up a stage for every dead leaf to parade

Well it don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong
It don’t take a genius to connect all the dots
You were meant to suffer on your own

Death could provide a cure

“Cosmos” :
Here is the collage diner where the young bloods feast
In the corner that’s where sit and stab your salad beast


Then suddenly you wake up
And it’s in your face.
All this time recording (gone) see it laid to waste
And for a moment, man it hits you hard
You should have taken chances
Shoulda gone that extra yard

Well it don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong
It don’t take a genius to connect all the dots
You over stayed your welcome, now you’re old
It don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong

Death could provide a cure
In time you will know for sure...

Suddenly you wake you and it’s seems so clear
The numbers for perfection are written everywhere
Do you enjoy it? And live in the now?
No. A blessed revelation you never could allow

Well it don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong
It don’t take a genius to connect all the dots
You over stayed your welcome, now you’re old
It don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong

Death could provide the cure

In time you will know for sure...
In time you will know for sure...
Maybe next time

Credits:
John Tabacco : Vocals, Programming
Recorded and Mixed at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY 

It Don't Take A Genius

John Tabacco is an American composer, singer songwriter, producer, recording engineer, multi instrumentalist and graphic artist. He has engineered /mixed and mastered music for hundreds of New York recording artists as well as projects released on BMG: The Kemelions, RCA: Faze, Rampage/Rhino: Rhett Forrester, Columbia: Rebbie Jackson, Rykodisc : Bob Marley, Columbia: Chris Jasper, Electra: Sonia Dada and Nickleodeon’s Are You Afraid Of The Dark? He is the CEO of It Iz What It Iz Music Publishing which currently holds over 750 songs in its catalog. He has been an associate producer for IndiMusic TV and hosts a bi-weekly radio program (CLAM RADIO) on college radio WUSB.fm since 1999. He is currently the head of A&R at Modern Voices Digital Distribution.

His musical background consists of extensive study of orchestration with noted 20th century composer John Lessard, harmony with the late electronic music maverick Bulent Arel, and composition with Stony Brook University professor Peter Winkler. He received his BA in Music from Stony Brook University in 1983. 

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined. His style is a melding of pop - jazz -rock - avant garde / aleatory, classical and comedy.  He has been recording his music non stop since 1979.

Of note: In 1989 the satirical, absurd house song "Go House Yourself" co-written by Tabacco, Pati and DiMauro reached position 39 on Billboard's dance chart. 

In 2014 Tabacco signed a record deal with Texas, indie label, Muffin Records. They released his CD “Unfulfilled Shopping Carts Syndrome” internationally.