Song Foundry 3-Pack #006
by Jed Davis
Brett Rodgers
Brett Rodgers
I choose this to avoid a beating of my face. COLLIDER.
Favorite track: Traffic (Pop Will Eat Itself remix).
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You're Making Me Nervous
04:28
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Glass one:
The future's begun over cheap wine
You're busting out all of your best lines
I don't think you're funny
But I'll squeeze out some laughter
To hold off disaster
Glass two:
Don't ask what I do in my spare time
I know you don't care about my spare time
Uncomfortable silence
Did you kick me on purpose?
You're making me nervous
You're making me nervous
Trying to get to know me from the inside out
Stop groping me with questions
Picking at my doubts
Oh my God, you're making me nervous
You're making me nervous, yeah
Glass three:
Don't get up to pee
I won't be here when you reappear
You're not special enough for the special
You ordered too much now
We're going it dutch now
And don't ask if this was a date
And please don't ask me if I would rate the experience
A budding romance
Or at least more fun than cancer
You won't like my answer
You're making me nervous
Trying to get to know me from the inside out
Stop groping me with questions
Picking at my doubts
Oh my God, you're making me nervous
You're making me nervous, yeah
You're making me nervous
Staring at me sideways with your shifty eyes
Why can't we cut our losses
Skip right to goodbyes
Oh my God, you're making me nervous
You're making me nervous, yeah
You, me
And issues for three
Now it's clear you're
The key to the lock on the door of
My 7-11
Like Woody and Previn
A match made in Heaven
You're making me nervous
You're making me nervous
You're making me nervous
You're making me nervous
You're making me nervous
Trying to get to know me from the inside out
Stop groping me with questions
Picking at my doubts
Oh my God, you're making me nervous
You're making me nervous, yeah
You're making me nervous
Staring at me sideways with your shifty eyes
Why can't we cut our losses
Skip right to goodbyes
Oh my God, you're making me nervous
You're making me nervous, yeah
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Puffy-chested law-abiders
Old people and Volvo drivers
Go as slow as you want, but don't waste my time -
Just keep to the right
'Cause the left is mine!
On the highways and the thruways and the byways
There's a hundred-million Mack trucks, and they're all going my way
I guess in trucker school they didn't explain:
If you're gonna do the speed limit, get ou of the fast lane
Old ladies in their blue and grey Mercedes
Rich girls hopping bars in their daddies' new cars
Rock stars, war heroes, presidents and priests:
Everyone's an asshole when they cut in front of me, buddy!
Green means go
Green means go
Green means go go go go go GO!
Fighting is useless, baby
Just play along
Open the window, turn the radio on
There are too many of you
For anyone's good
Hope you brought a nice book 'cause
We're stuck in traffic just like Stevie Winwood.
Puffy-chested law abiders
Old people and Volvo drivers
You're not the only motherfucker on the road
I am!
Brake light, brake light, 1-2-3
The only thing between my home and me
Is a quarter-mile stretch of road
Blocked off by a trailer with an oversized load
Rubbernecker rubbernecker 1-2-3
"The cop is pulled over, but he might catch me"
And all the other Good Samaritans whose lives won't be complete
Unless they see blood splashed on the cold concrete
Fighting is useless, baby
Just play along
Open the window, turn the radio on
There are too many of you
For anyone's good
Hope you packed a nice dinner 'cause
We're stuck in traffic just like Stevie Winwood.
Puffy-chested law abiders
Old people and Volvo drivers
School buses and daydreamers
Truckers, college kids and Beamers
Green means go
Green means go
Green means go go go go go so GO!
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3. |
The Breeze (acoustic)
02:58
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The breeze picked up and pushed a can
The can rolled down a hill
A bird took wing to dodge the can
And perched on my windowsill.
The windowsill was old and worn
And suddenly gave way
It fell two stories to the ground
On which three kittens lay
The smallest one jumped up and ran
And scared a butterfly
Which left the flower it was on
Just as a bee passed by
The bee lit on the flower
And soon I came along
I didn't see, stepped on the bee
And sure enough was stung ...
I went into convulsions, all my allergies engaged
The neighbors heard me screaming, and an ambulance was paged.
I sat there in emergency, all miserable and sick
Then I saw her across the room - my heart was pumping quick -
I waved for her attention, and she stiffly raised her head
I asked her what the problem was, and this is what she said:
The breeze blew leaves from an old oak tree
And new light from the sun
Shone through the spot the leaves had been
And startled mice to run
The mice ran down the sidewalk
And they hid inside a tree
Bothering a young raccoon
And angering a bee
Which flew out in a rage and stung
The first thing that it found
And there I was, out walking
I crumpled to the ground ...
Her allergies, the same as mine, had left her in this place
Oh, just think - if not for this Spring wind, I'd have never seen her face
That was so many years ago, the day we fell in love
But we don't credit allergies, or providence above
Not rolling cans or frightened mice or angry buzzing bees -
We're just two people swept together by the gently blowing breeze.
And perhaps we're all just brought together by the gently blowing breeze.
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about
2020 wasn’t good for much, but being homebound did allow me to sort through 30 years of old recordings, and unarchive tons of shelved and incomplete material.
And then finish that shit!
I am not really interested in doing “albums” anymore… holding music back until a dozen arbitrarily-linked songs are mixed and mastered and the stars and planets align. But at the same time, “singles” are kind of boring and “EPs” demand some degree of cohesion, and I don’t want to be boxed in like that. So here is what I offer you: THREE-PACKS
Remember those randomly-bagged multipacks of comic books they used to sell in toy and drug stores? You wouldn’t be able to see what was inside until you tore open the plastic, and the comics might be brand new or fifteen years old… it was just whatever happened to be laying around when they bundled it up. There was no thematic connection, no rhyme or reason to the collection, and one bag could even contain books from both Marvel AND DC. I was introduced to so many fun stories that way, and that is how I am going to introduce (or reintroduce) you to all of these songs.
This three-pack includes “You're Making Me Nervous” (2007), an acoustic take on Skyscape's “The Breeze” (2008) and Pop Will Eat Itself's 2014 remix of “Traffic” - all recently completed using a combination of the original recordings and new material. You can read more about each track if you click through to its page.
I’m not promising these three-packs in any regularly-scheduled fashion… and I’m not going to tell you about them in advance. When I feel like one is ready, it will just appear. They may have Skyscape/Hanslick Rebellion/Collider songs on them. All of my records from the past that are not currently available digitally will be represented, as well as material you have never heard, including brand-new stuff. But as far as I’m concerned, all of this music is new to most of the universe - and these are fresh versions of everything anyway, so I hope that in a way it will also be new to you.
Let’s have some fun <3
And then finish that shit!
I am not really interested in doing “albums” anymore… holding music back until a dozen arbitrarily-linked songs are mixed and mastered and the stars and planets align. But at the same time, “singles” are kind of boring and “EPs” demand some degree of cohesion, and I don’t want to be boxed in like that. So here is what I offer you: THREE-PACKS
Remember those randomly-bagged multipacks of comic books they used to sell in toy and drug stores? You wouldn’t be able to see what was inside until you tore open the plastic, and the comics might be brand new or fifteen years old… it was just whatever happened to be laying around when they bundled it up. There was no thematic connection, no rhyme or reason to the collection, and one bag could even contain books from both Marvel AND DC. I was introduced to so many fun stories that way, and that is how I am going to introduce (or reintroduce) you to all of these songs.
This three-pack includes “You're Making Me Nervous” (2007), an acoustic take on Skyscape's “The Breeze” (2008) and Pop Will Eat Itself's 2014 remix of “Traffic” - all recently completed using a combination of the original recordings and new material. You can read more about each track if you click through to its page.
I’m not promising these three-packs in any regularly-scheduled fashion… and I’m not going to tell you about them in advance. When I feel like one is ready, it will just appear. They may have Skyscape/Hanslick Rebellion/Collider songs on them. All of my records from the past that are not currently available digitally will be represented, as well as material you have never heard, including brand-new stuff. But as far as I’m concerned, all of this music is new to most of the universe - and these are fresh versions of everything anyway, so I hope that in a way it will also be new to you.
Let’s have some fun <3
credits
released August 3, 2021
© Jed Davis, all rights reserved.
© Jed Davis, all rights reserved.
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Jed Davis Syracuse, New York
Song designer; founding member of The Hanslick Rebellion, Skyscape, Collider; oblivious to genre, trends and the passage of time.
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