VERSE 1:
Sitting in a graveyard, playing penicole over Mr. Smith died 1845
Styna would take the bid and fetch herself a fine kitty
Myke would lead kings just to stay alive
Then we'd hop into the Oldsmobubble
Drive down Mt. Alverno
Oppertunity curve every time
We'd end up at Farells with sugar in our hair
And the future on our minds
CHORUS:
ninteen eighty-five, ninteen eighty-five
ninteen eighty-five
Me and Natalie agree, that those days just might be
The best ones of our lives
VERSE 2:
Out in the garage with the carpets on the floor
Message on the door, head out to the back
You'd better park on Bobbin Mill if you don't want to get killed
If you ever want to be coming back
We'd turn up the music and the strobes
Dance for seven nights in a row
Did you ever think that you'd want to go
Back there again?
VERSE 3:
Drunk at Jim's Graduation
Finding Lee's keys in the park
Hanging out at the Blue Church in the dark
All of these moments in time
Just memories yours and mine
To hold onto for as long as we can
ENDING:
Jim's mom drunk outside his graduation
Mary Mohawk
VERSE 4: (optional)
So ten years later they gathered all together
To see what had become of the love
The people the places the petty politics
could they rise above
All of these moments right now
Won't be remembered by anyone anyhow
Unless you hold on, for as long as you can
CHORUS:
ninteen ninty-five, ninteen ninty-five
ninteen ninty-five
Me and Natalie agree, that these days just might be
The best ones of our lives
Created: 1994
Performers: Carl on EGS records & tapes,
Information: Not really a Knewfoulke song, but I wrote it so here it is, mostly because it's so very hard to understand all the lyrics. It acuratly describes life in a small Media town in the mid eighties for a bunch of misfit teenagers with nothing better to do than party in graveyards and garages. And I must admit the birth of my son was the best single moment of my life, but I find myself thinking about those times in my youth an awfull lot. Natalie was hostess babe! Jen had a mohawk, Styn was smart, and good at Penichole, Mike was chofaure, Rick had physics books, Jim belched, Alan was so very gay before it was in, Phil was violent, Kevin was moody, Steve was Steave, Shelly was mostly innocent, George was single, Sue was from another planet, no...really! And I was in the middle of it all.
VERSE 1:
Nightmare last night shook me up.
Opened my eyes.
Started with me waking up.
Ended all in lies
CHORUS:
And in the blink of an eye.
We could all go blind.
And would it be so bad not to see the faces of my adoring public?
The mask I have hidden behind.
The wall I have built.
The shinning I have dulled.
The shinning I have dulled. And she said...
You don’t love people, you use them.
And we need this time.
We need this time.
VERSE 2:
There’s a presence in my heart.
And it’s not you.
Running away from the wreckage of another broken heart.
Caused by you.
CHORUS:
I humble myself in a million miles.
On the other hand just don’t let me go.
Don’t let me see. I don’t want to love you.
The result is, that in the end.
Maybe dreams come true, for you.
My dreams come true, for you.
And every now and then.
I dream of better times.
But your nightmares seem to bleed through.
And they never come true.
Created: 1987
Performers: Two versions, one acustic, one heavy electronic
Information: Written in November of 87 after waking up from a nightmare. One of those ones where you wake up in it. I walked downstairs and the answering machine light was blinking. I ended up listening to my girlfriend break up with me on an answering machine. Just pre-recorded earlier. Nothing I could say cos it had already been recorded. No statments I could make to a machine simply doing it duty. Then I woke up. And later that night she did break up with me. Coincidence? You decide.
VERSE 1:
We used to stand together from the same point of view
But now we hold no common ground
And I wish I could just forget you and get on with my life
But it seems that without you I have none
CHORUS:
And If we had some common ground to cling to
You wouldn’t be slipping away
And if we had some common bond to hold us together
You wouldn’t have to go
I wouldn’t have to stay
VERSE 2:
And he will walk back though the minefields of attraction
To retrieve her cold lifeless body
But she shed it a husk as she now floats towards the future
Leaving him behind with her shroud
CHORUS:
And the game never ends until you put it to one
So you turn round and you walk away
No winners, no losers, no common ground to go to
Instead a land of in-between, where we found one another,
and lost ourselves
CHORUS:
And we never really saw the world
Through similar sets of eyes
And though she never said the words
It came as no surprise, when she betrayed her disguise
When she betrayed me
VERSE 3:
And the love that was to last forever
Will run dry sometime next year (or so I thought)
We once stood together from the same point of view
But now we hold no common ground
Created: 1989
Performers: Somewhere in Dino's basement,
Information: First song I ever wrote on my keyboard. It comes from a piece of paper I left on top of the tv set for my girlfriend to read, I still have it I think. We tried recording this down in New Jersy, but it just wasn't ment to be. Some of the second verse lines come out of a poem that was part two of Phantoms of the past. The original Phantoms is not even listed cos we don't even TRY to play that monster anymore. But I will often turn up the monitors and put on the 'sound' that made me by a keyboard instead of a livingroom group and play this song.
VERSE:
And the world will watch us fall
Watch us fall away
And we will stand and watch
As everything falls away
People that I never know
Walk the streets at night
And I don't think I will ever know
What is wrong, from right
VERSE:
And I know, that trouble is on her way
And I know she'll knock on my door
Someday
Don't you knock on my door
Don't stop by this day
Troubles calling and I don't know what to say
VERSE:
And the world will watch us fall today
Watch us fall today
But you know the way we can hope to live
And you know there's nothing left to give
VERSE:
Low, far away right next door
And when you look back and see the way things turned out you wonder
Could it have been any different
And you know it could have been different
But there’s no such thing as time travel
VERSE:
Time will tell everything that you never wanted to know
Time will show you all the places your supposed to go, but didn’t
VERSE:
There’s no such thing. There’s no such thing
There’s no way back through this way
There’s no way back through the door
ENDING:
I just wanted to be with you again
But I know that there’s know way back
Created: 1990
Performers: Demo version, recently destroyed (major bummer)
Information: Above are the lyrics for No Way Back parts 1, 2 & 3. The first is acustic only, the second acustic & electronic, and the last almost total paino. Never really got the sound out of it that was first recorded all those years ago by chance. Use to loan the tape out for people to listen to and over time it got weaker and weaker and broke earlier this year which is a shame cos it has the only versions of 'River outside my door' and 'And you know' on it, plus a lot of other keen stuff. But know way back is my artsy-fartsy side. Kind of an up tempo Phantom, almost.
Created: 1993
Performers: Demo version,
Information: Stuff