Notes
Well here we go peoples, let the games begin. This is the first installment of my compilation CD's. This is Volume 155 (named after my old street address in Nutley, NJ).....the next one will be volume 138, then 121, then 104 etc going down 17 until I get to 4 then they go up 13. Don't ask because I don't know. I figure if I release one a month I have enough here in this room to go 8 years and 3 months until I start saying 'did I put this on anything yet?' They're basically everything I've recorded that never landed on anything for sale. I hope someday for every single song to be a big huge enormous hit so that the title will be a big fat lie. Let's reach in the bag and see what surfaces....oh, ok.... Here's one from the EMI years. I think the idea was to finish the lyrics, since at the time 'lean over I can't hear you' and 'let me count the lies I've heard' didn't make any freakin' sense but I thought 'hey, when I finish it'. Plus I think the expression was BEND over I can't hear you, implying that the other person was talking out their butts, so right off the bat? Yeah well this is as far as it got. I think I was trying to be 10cc in the beginning, and recording engineer David Dale's authentic English accent helped bring out the effect. And we had fun making backwards snare drum sounds. EMI was a cool job, I had it for about 8 years. My job was to go into New York once a week, get drunk on Heinekens all day and make up songs and then we'd all try and figure out who could sing them. Then I'd have to pee like a yak on the busride back home. Which is when I wrote the song 'Please Hurry Now'. LEAN OVER Mark Radice 1990something. These people all look like they're from some other planet And then they talk and my suspicions are confirmed I feel like asking everybody when they landed I feel like just another bridge they haven't burned I met a girl last night who said her name was Wanda yeah I was so positive that she would treat me right Took off so fast she almost killed me with her Honda yeah I knew right then and there that it was not my night. .... It's still so early that my hair's not making sense yet Another day ahead it's been this way since birth I haven't found a way to put up my defense yet I have a toohbrush that has disappeared from Earth. If you leave it up to me I get myself nowhere slow And I don't know who'll I'll be When the World gets through with me And I'm sure that I don't wanna know Lean Over I Can't Hear You Speak UP or I won't hear a word Lean Over I Can't Hear You Let me count the lies I've heard Who's on the subway with me today Hundreds of people running away..... I wouldn't put a dime on anything you tell me Your eyes are straight up and your bird is flying south I try to be polite and ask you to speak louder yeah Cause where you're talking from is surely not your mouth If I leave it up to you I get myself nowhere slow And I don't know what to do when the World gets through And I'm sure that I don't wanna know Lean Over I Can't Hear You Speak UP or I won't hear a word Lean Over I Can't Hear You Let me count the lies I've heard Who's in the mirror that isn't me Where did my life go how can this be? @DisenchantedCottage2008 #2- Well, I did it. I wrote a song that the bass only plays two notes the whole song. Yay for me. One summer I rented a house on Evergreen Avenue in Bayville New Jersey. It was really cool and was on one of those boat slip things and ducks use to wander into my kitchen. I wrote about 8 really cool songs there, I was in the zone. I was missing Suzanne alot. So yeah, another one about you, baby. This feels like it fell off an early Beatles Record until it turns into Yes in the hook. THE ONE YOU'LL LEAVE BEHIND Radice 2002. Maybe. Probably. Around then. Here I am A voice inside the wind reaching out for something That I can always call my very own Would they ever let me be Would the World even bother.... So where were you? I stood there on a hill and asked if you would join me I
