MUSIC and the SOUL

music of rick calderone, steve parrish, michele statt

deep end

it looks like rain

black packages with no silver lines

where is my brain?

i lost my soul but what’s to find?

 

deep end

 

a car pulls up the door flies open

white coat man steps up to me

behind me two more men approaching

do they think that i don’t see?

 

they want to know how i feel

want to know if i still steal

they want to know how i deal

with their real and the unreal

 

defend it’s insanity that’s on the mend

why don’t we pretend this fantasy has a happy end

 

i think i answered all their questions

some were less some more of me

i think they thought them more suggestion

of how i ought to be

 

i don’t think they know how i feel 

it’s my soul they want to steal 

don’t think I’m up to their ideal

this is pantomime creel

 

deep end

I’m falling in and I’m falling off again

in between friends

on who now can i ever depend?

I’m off the deep end

 

lightning and rain

electric jolts to right my mind

crystal my veins

this jacket straight is warm inside

 

thoughts

this one obviously goes into my unstable being and the tormented mind of a sociopath...at least some comfort is found within at the end...

this song has some very vague allusions to some books i read as a kid (i would hide in some of that sci-fi fantasy stuff, Tolkien, Brooks) ...i'll give anyone a dollar if they can connect those dots...the not-so-vague references to the weather made for cool production adds

there may be some Tull nods in here as well