All content (C) 2025, TK Major unless otherwise noted
The tall gray man in the Blue Sedan
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Notes:
Trying to trace this song as it develops – if it develops.
Right off the top I can tell I’m going to need to work to steer this clear of some sort of pulp conspiracy thriller pseudo drama.
I’m only just starting to dream (I just started to dream)
The devil is a matchmaker
The devil’s Matchmaker?
Red River Valley
public domain
From this valley they say you are goin’
I will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile
For they say you are takin’ the sunshine
That has brightened our pathway a while
For a long time my darlin’, I’m waiting
For the words that you never would say
And Alas my poor heart you’re breakin’
For they tell me you’re goin’ away
As you go to your home by the ocean
May you never forget those sweet hours
That we spent in the Red River Valley
And the love we exchanged mid the flowers
Come and sit by my side if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
Just remember the Red River Valley
And the one that has loved you so true
They will bury me where we did wander
Near the hills where the daffodils grow.
For they say that you’re leaving our Valley,
and I can’t live without you I know.
[Do you think of the valley you’re leavin’
Oh, how lonely and dreary it will be
Do you think of the fond heart you’re breakin’
And the sadness you’ve cast over me]
Kitten, Kitten
I don’t understand
why you go cattin’ ’round
with some other man
scram ma’am jam lamb cram slam tam bam wham sham flam blam ram
[say… wait a sec… those are all ‘-an’ rhymes!]
[Perry Mason, TCoT Careless Kitten, ~43’50” – cfr my son, “Weavin’ and Wobblin'” – inspired by phrase earlier in the same episode approximately 33 minutes]
(recreate construction of an old song which isn’t in the song database yet and I don’t want to completely lose so here are reconstruction notes I suppose you might say)
I live my life
I fulfill my Dharma
that doesn’t mean my love isn’t true
I don’t mind being stuck in samsara
At least not as long
as I’m stuck here with you
6m 2m 4/5⁷ 6m \ 6m 2m 4⁷/3⁷ 6m
Weavin’ and wobblin’
‘tween demons and goblins
Havin’ problems walkin’ the line
Dizzy and fallin’
Up ‘gainst the wall and
Stallin’ for a little more time
2m 6m 2m 3⁷ \ 6m 2m 4⁷/3⁷ 6m
Rolling toward trouble
In a champagne bubble
Swimming through shimmering wine
Standing in the starlight
Dizzy as a bar fight
Spinning like a shiny new dime
Trying to bargain
Choices are stark and
Forever is a mighty long time
But where do you go
When there’s just nothing more
And you can’t tell yourself no more lies?
Ch…
Heads or tails –
How could it not fail
To land on its edge this one time?
Inside or out
Indecision or doubt
Frozen in this moment of time
Ch…
(Frozen in an instant of time)
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Title phrase inspired by a line of dialogue in Perry Mason the case of the careless kitten approximately 33 minutes in.
(Some other possible inspirations in the case of the prudent prosecutor in the first 12 minutes or so including a reference to a female figure skater spinning around in lights as well as an earlier reference to swimming in champagne – so it kind of hooks up.)
My other song, “Kitten, Kitten, I Don’t Understand,” was also inspired by TCOT Careless Kitten, aprx 43′
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Weavin’ and wobblin’
‘tween the demons and goblins
Havin’ problems walkin’ the line
Dizzy and fallin’
Up against the wall and
Stallin’ for a little more time
Rolling toward trouble
In a champagne bubble
Swimming through shimmering wine
Standing in the starlight
Dizzy as a bar fight
Spinning on a shiny new dime
Trying to bargain
Choices are stark and
Forever is a mighty long time
But where do you go
When there’s just nothing mo’
And you can’t tell yourself no more lies?
Someone
but not Simone
some place where I’ve never been
Someone
but not Simone
some time when I can breathe again
somewhere where I’ve never been
some breeze will carry me away, my friend
some beach where the dream never has to end
someone will help me fall in love again
(Someone
but not Simone
someday I will exist again
Someone
but not Simone)
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Someone
but not Simone
some day I will exist again
some beach where the sand never ends
some dream where the dream never ends
some beach where the dream never ends
[inspired by Ravi Bhatia typo correction on FB of same construction, ie, ‘someone not simone’]
Don’t Ask a Fool (Why He Falls in Love)
Don’t ask the sun
why the sky is blue
Don’t ask the river
where it’s flowing to
don’t ask the stars
why they shine up above
and don’t ask a fool
why he falls in love
Don’t ask me
why I love you
don’t ask your slave
what he wants to do
don’t ask a dead man
what he’s dreaming of
and don’t ask a fool
why he falls in love
ch:
don’t ask tomorrow
when there’s no today
don’t ask forever
if you’ve gone away
don’t ask for more
when there’s never enough
ah — but don’t ask a fool
why he falls in love
Don’t Ask a Fool – TEMP [midi]
From the very first zero
to the very last one
I can see what has happened
I can see what will come
Like a train in a tunnel
like a mole in a hole
like a bullet in a barrel
I know where to go
From the very first day
to the very last night
I’ve been through the darkness
but I’m scared of the light
From the very first zero
to the very last one
I can see what has happened
and I see what must come
From the very first day
to the very last night
I’ve been through the darkness
but I’m scared of the light
(C)2010, 2013, TK Major
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Scared of the Light
From the [6m] very first zero [–]
to the [2m] very last one [–]
I can [5] see what has happened
[4] – I can see what will [6m] come [–]
Like a [6m] train in a tunnel [–]
like a [2m] mole in a hole [–]
like a [5] bullet in a barrel
I [4] know where to [6m] go [–]
From the [7b] very first day
[1] — to the very last [6m] night [–]
[7b] I’ve been through the darkness
[1] — but I’m scared of the [6m] light [–]
[repeat 1st verse]
From the very first zero
to the very last one
I can see what has happened
and I see what must come
From the very first day
to the very last night
I’ve been through the darkness
but I’m scared of the light
(C)2013, TK Major
[each bracketed Nashville number indicates a new chord; dashes indicate repeat from previous bar]
first two quatrains written in 2010, not recorded; chorus written 2-23/24 of 2013 for the 2013 RPM Album Challenge
Sad that it’s so dead in here
sad to see the flocks have fled
sad to say its inevitable
but some things must be said
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
the reasons are many
excuses are few
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead
We were so cool
so beautiful
so free so hip
the people to be
What we had is gone, what we did is done
the songs we sang as good as never sung
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead
Came back to see what had become
of the place where so much was said and done
footprints in the dust
shadows in a mirror
was it yesterday
or a thousand years
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
the reasons are many
excuses are few
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead
this scene is dead
The scene is dead
ooohoooh oohoooh
oohooh oohooh
this scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead
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[6m] Sad that it’s so [3] dead in here
[37] sad to see the flocks have [6m] fled
[6m] sad to say its inevita-[3]-ble
but [37] some things must be [6m] said
[2m] This scene is dead
[6m] the scene is dead
[37] the reasons are many
[6m] excuses are few
[2m] this scene is dead
[6m] the scene is dead
[47] God knows the [37] scene is [6m] dead
We were so cool
so beautiful
so free so hip
the people to be
What we had is gone, what we did is done
the songs we sang as good as never sung
this scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead
Came back to see what had become
of the place where so much was said and done
footprints in the dust
shadows in a mirror
was it yesterday
or a thousand years
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
the reasons are many
excuses are few
This scene is dead
the scene is dead
God knows the scene is dead…