It's a song I wrote when I was 18, around 1993. Now, in my old age, I've updated it with a swingy feel. I used a Fender duo-sonic with such terrible tuning issues that I had to play the part one bite at a time, changing the tuning for each chord change.

Allen Doesn't Vist Anymore

For my first few recordings learning the program Reason I intentionally picked some old simple songs that I had never recorded before.  Like all my tunes, this one has a schizophrenic quality, and I don't know how I would describe it otherwise.

Anytime

Also an old song I dusted off just to learn Reason, this one's lyrics are even more embarrassing than those of "Anytime".  But who gives a fuck about lyrics, anyway?

Overexposure

This is what you get when you decide, "screw it, I'm not going to record the vocals one more time"  Another schizophrenic thing where the beginning is just a porch for the ending's living room.

Ship Wrecked Lives

The version that highlights the tricked-out yamaha mini keyboard that my friend Bruce M. let me steal.  

Ship Wrecked Lives Techno Version No Vox Final, Stop It For Gods' Sake

A collection of notes arranged in a particular order. 

Country Fried Mr. Jenkins

Prog Rock Yo@! With Fade Out

Like much of too much of the music in this list, much of this song is too much. And you can't really hear the keyboard during the big dramatic 2nd bridge, which is really annoying 'cause I recorded it like 30 times to get it right. Lame.

Lyrics:

What is - the password
Will you whisper it - to me?
Will you let it slip?

Tie up - the boat then
And go on - back home
And leave - me floating - amongst the shoals

Turn right - sigh light
Leave the beach lean
Cool eyes leave me

Thrown high - open sky light
Soak the tape clean
Don't remember me

What - you're lookin' backward
Will you wonder at - that noise?
Will you lose your grip?

Pass the - tree line then
And miss the - last home
And leave me - to float - out on the foam

Moonlight - poised high
Leaves the wind free
Cool nights lean on me

Thrown high - Open Sky's light
Soak the shore clean
Don't release me

Turn right - Sigh light
Leave the beach lean
Cool eyes leave me

Are you sorry the knot wasn't any tighter?
Without the guilt would the boat float any lighter?
Cruise the, current's dream
Lose the shoreline's wet sand gleam

What was it you said, to me all along?
All the time left will be languid and wrong
Simple and wrong

 Thrown high - open Sky's light
Soak the shore clean
Don't release me

Thrown high - open sky light
Soak the tape clean
Don't remember me

Turn right - sigh light
Leave the beach lean
Cool eyes leave me


Principal Jenkins