Created: 1995
Performers: Demo version,
Information: This is an instrumental I wrote in the Summer of 95. Nothing fancy, no capo for a change, just a neat little tune that needed a title. So when Kim's friend Frank (a.k.a. Sal Paradise) stopped by to eat, play with Eddie, watch some tv, eat, play some tunes and eat well I found my name. I'm not sure if this tune will make it onto the next album, (cos I've got so much cool stuff you know, thank you...ahem) but I would like to get to see it get on something so people can hear it.
VERSE 1:
I'm not used to playing second fiddle
But I guess I'll have to, if I want to fiddle around with you
Just another member, in your elaborate orchestra
Just another musician in your directoral debut
BRIDGE:
Suddenly the music it goes off key
So you look to me... and I'm on the wrong line
You decide to despence of me right there
Appluse hit the air. He thinks of better times, and wonders..
CHORUS:
What kind of fool am I, what kind of fool am I
Every day I ask and I get no reply
What kind of fool am I
VERSE 2:
There's a boy by the river
And as he looks into the water he makes the connection
He's a drowning man
No one ever taught him, how to swim to stay afloat
So he flounders in the surf
As he quickly drowns
BRIDGE:
And when they found his body on the beach the next day dead
He had a crushed violin in his right hand,
and a note in his left that read
'To whom it may, don't ever learn to play, Second Fiddle'
VERSE 3:
I often think of the tourchered fiddle player
And the undertow of saddness that finially drug him down
I sometimes wonder, if we all don't play second fiddle
And what songs would we perform, as we all drown
Something like...
Created: 1988
Performers: Demo version
Information: This was one that may have actually been written a bit later but I can't seem to remember the exact date for it. It's a bit on the over-dramatic side as an old girlfriend once told me, and ever since I can't quite stand it. This is a typical Knewfoulke song to the point where the main character gets really messed up by the end of it. Or to quote my big brother..'Man, I sure wouldn't want to be one of the characters in your tunes dude.'
VERSE 1:
A man, merely a man on his throne
A man, though hardly a man, a bunker below his home
Dictates to his secretaries of war, and of fear
The order was once again dispatched,
And met by no counter attack
VERSE:
And the clouds rose into the sky
A sandstorm that governmentally blinded our eyes
So we mounted for foreign lands
Under one final crusade
The hornets rose off, the floor
To dance around God's livingroom
And fight amongst themselves
Over territorial claim of lost Eden
BRIDGE:
Where do you go when your home is gone
And the ghost that once haunt it now fights by your side
You feel betrayed and yet still afraid
Of the coward beneath the sands
CHORUS:
Today we cheer now that the storm has passed
And the parades will parade, even though we outclassed
The farmers turned soldiers for one brief moment
And fell on the sandy land
VERSE 3:
To hold a land for half a year
A victory for the mouse that roared
And though we thought he could be ignored
He is not alone I fear
BRIDGE:
And the order remained the same
And the word 'surrender' never really came
Instead an uneasy truce along hostile borderlines
Between untrusting warlords
VERSE 4:
And the man who lead them all astray
That man still rules, still smiles this day
Has lost nothing but his men and equipment
And they were always expendable
I know, there must be another way
Created: 1991
Performers: Ned: lead guitar, Carl: everything else including some nifty rythm guitar
Information: This is track 5 side one of our first album. It hopefully should be obvious that it's about the Gulf War. I wrote this while my mom was in knee surgery and I had lots of time to kill. I wrote 3 pages of lyrics for this tune and ended up cutting most of it out. Always thought I was really clever with the lyrics of this tune, makes a better poem than a song I think though. Or perhaps I'm just suffering from my, I want to do it over again, syndrome that plagues me on virtually every track off that tape. This is my friend's Steve Cermanski's favorite tune on the album
VERSE 1:
Somewhere, anywhere beyond these housetops
Somewhere mildly green, and bright blue
I would sleep under the stars and bask in the sun
Somewhere, someday, maybe with you
Take me there love, please lead me away
Hold my hand and lead me on
Take me away, take me beyond, leave it all beyond
Don't look back, don't look back
CHORUS:
So here inside my head, he wonders does he care for anybody
He makes a fist and crushes the delicate beauty that you could almost love
You once loved
VERSE 2:
Somewhere alone the borderline between romantic murders and casual secrets
Somewhere just off stage silent in the wings with his knife in hand
Somewhere under gray skies, the marquee letters fly away in the wind
Somewhere so far away that you can't get back once you have got there
ENDING:
You tried so hard, for so long, but what did it get you
I don't know
Tried so hard to get somewhere, you ended up nowhere
Created: 1989
Performers: Demo version,
Information: This is the first song in the Somewhere-Knowhere tune. I was told that I was listening to too much Marillion when I wrote the second verse which may or may not be true. But it's still cool dammit! I love the image of the marquee letters flying off into the distance under a stormy sky, I can SEE IT! It was only half finished for years until I figured out to put both songs together with that little bridge there in the ending. It's one of our older tunes that we still play on occasion. Somewhere so very far away that you can't get back once you've got there. That, friends and neighbors, is time itself. A single moment that you cannot get back to.
Created: 1991
Performers: Demo version,
Information: This is the orchestral tune of about 2 and a half minutes that fits between Rescue and Release. I had written it originally for a movie score. The producer liked it but not for that project and never heard from him again. So I used it cos it sounds so cool, to me at least. The only reason it's called stay is because I was listening to it one say and sang out the words 'Why don't you stay, stay'