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Darryl Sweet played guitar and sang lead
Thomas Csicsman played bass and sang back up
John Collins played drums
Recorded in Santa Barbara 1991
...at Rolling Thunder Studios--which was horrible...they actually cut us a break after we complained...the engineer was lousy, and the final product was lousy. The guys who did our previous recordings were busy around this time and we could not use them. In retrospect, we should have waited...but that is another issue.
Dave Sommers at Sommers Studio, Santa Barbara, saved this recording and we actually went to him again. He was open-minded and listened to our needs.
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Lyrics
Gangly Man
The gangly man
he shakes head
to a beautiful you
whoa!
and then occurs
a hesitant blur
and you realize
you're lively!
Chorus:
I want to be the gangly man
and wear his colorful band
the life the times the nobody
are realized inside of me
He brought it about
with a heart-filled shout
the gangly man
The gangly man
he shakes head
to a beautiful you
whoa!
Chorus
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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See Me Flying By
It's not up to me x2
what if everything's okay
it's not up to me
tell me how you feel
what if it is really real
tell me how you feel
I don't want to think about it
right now x2
I don't want to I don't want to
oh
see me flying by
what if I should hit the ground
see me flying by
Caught between your eyes x2
what if you should blink or cry
caught between your eyes
I don't want to think about it
right now x2
I don't want to I don't want to
oh
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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Hand
It’s on my wet brow
I feel the pulse and
the loveline’s long
push down and out
I know this hand
Your hand is soft too
swinging at hipside
when you is walking
and now inside of mine
I know this hand
with shiny knuckles, and all
I know this hand
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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The Way Out
When it happened we both cried and cried
Now you and I we have to split the dough
Chorus
Now it's a problem
we need a way out
It’s us a talking
It’s us a walking
Away from here, to somewhere else
Astray from alone we pray to someone else
Play the song as loud as fast as you want
But don’t delay at all
Chorus
music Darryl Sweet/BMI & Thomas Csicsman
lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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Radiate
How's about a lot of talk
and then bottle of wine
and after that a sky view
and through the air I’ll guide you
Break
Don't touch that or this
we'll radiate anyway
and now we need a flame
Chorus
Do you have a fire
What are you in your walk
do you ever think of time
and what of dancing on the moon
and what of Bea all turning blue
Break
Chorus
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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Cheesecake
Another night of cheesecake and coffee is what I want it to be
I sit alone at a table
All the berets and beatle boots, they surround me
it's another orange night, another orange night
Cheesecake
Am I alone or by myself can you see me flying
I see hair and incomplete pies
as I'm bouncing off the ceiling look for the door
it's another orange night, another orange night
Cheesecake
I'm spinning, spinning around in the air
and the wind and the rain is soaking my hair
while I'm away please eat my cheesecake and finish-finish
finish my café
another orange night, it's another orange night
Cheesecake
FAST!
Cheesecake, etc....
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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Pray
I've got something to say
Whoa ho ho
I've got something to play
here we go
Chorus:
Talking to you's bringing me back up
You're the only one to make me pray
Thinking strong and thinking up and up
You're the only one to make me stay
I think that I’m your friend
like the sky is blue
but you can rip me, you can
I've got something to say
Whoa ho ho
I've got something to play
here we go
Chorus
I got no idear
‘s’not what i want to hear.....
misc. noises
music Darryl Sweet/BMI & Thomas Csicsman
words Darryl Sweet/BMI
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My Time
All my time, all my time
All my friends telling on you
All my time, all my time
All my friends telling on you
All my time in your room
and my friends are walking on top of us
and they say where you going to
and I say I dont even know
music Darryl Sweet/BMI &Thomas Csicsman
words Darryl Sweet/BMI
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Wonderin'
Wonderin', wonderin', wonderin', wonderin'...
what to do with my time now that
you are in the stars and floating
off and off and over over
tune into me
Repeat
I've been wonderin'
Wonderin'..........
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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On Me
I go out to sea
to breathe in morning air
a cloud appears and says
to get out of there
on me, on you
I go out for a sight
and wind up in the air
the ground from far below
it echoes in the sky
on me, on you
on me...
music and lyrics Darryl Sweet/BMI
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Turn On Me
even I can hear you
calling out the names
told to you in stories
nothing is the same
thinking about nothing
nothing else to do
put on someone’s habit
someone else’s shoes
never without party
not without a toy
sonny’s flying southern
sonny’s one,
a boy
(and we go
and we see
here we go
turn on me)
words* and music Darryl Sweet/BMI
*this was written as an instrumental but
everybody kept telling me, "People like words,
people like words!" So I wrote the damn words.
-DS
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