I’ve been working on this ska/punk manifesto for a month or so. Earl correctly suggested that it should be the soundtrack to the promo video we’re gonna make. Here’s my second draft of two verses and the chorus (45 secs for the video).
No more sitting in my cube beneath the zombie lights
Where the light is too white and the walls are too tight
I need to go outside and a get big fresh breath of air
But I can’t escape the screen and my butt’s glued to the chair
No more standing on a stage beneath a TV screen
No more trying to sing over the coffee steam machine
No more waiting hours just wait for hours more
In some far off remote hope that my foot gets in a door
No more shitty gigs I’ve played enough for one life
No more shitty years it’s high time I decided
Let’s go for a walk, I’m gonna take show outside
‘Cause it’s my show and I decide where it will go
‘Cause it’s my show and I decide where it will go
One of Anais’s classmate’s moms works at the Blanton. She just sent us this wonderful photo, taken a few months ago when we took Anais and their photographer was snapping pics.
Maile, Anais and I went home to DC for Presidents’ Day Weekend. As you’ll see here, Anais and Casey made pancakes, played upstairs with the door closed, did backflips, rode the subway, played ball, and went to the Museum of Natural History and saw the giant squid, among other things.
Maile asked me to write a Valentine’s day song for Anais this year and here’s what I came up with.
You see a star out of the car as we’re driving by
You yell out star and point out where each one you find
Stars adorn your avenues and so now mine
My oh my, Anais Sky how your bright eyes shine!
You’re my little fox, peeking at the possums
You’re my little bear, heeding where the honey’s hid
You’re my little mouse underneath the table
You’re my little fish doing backflips
You always say, Daddy an A! and I see the sign
You see the tower every time it’s on the skyline
You spy with your little eye some tricky little find
My oh my, Anais Sky how your bright eyes shine!
Have you never seen a dog wearing pajamas?
Have you never seen a giant squid wearing a bib?
Have you never seen a baby with an umbrella
holding a frog like a little kid?
The world is new and new again for you my friend
And so for me it’s new again and again and again
Thank god for what you see in me, through Maile’s eyes and mine
My oh my, Anais Sky how your bright eyes shine!
I'm j and I play: musician, web guy, dad.
I write songs about love and wisdom, reggae songs for gorgeous outdoor gigs.
Email j@jasonmolin.net or find me on...
Next Gig
Fri. May 3, 12:15 PM, lunchtime concert on the UT campus in Calhoun courtyard on the 6-pack. Facebook event.Google map.
Sat. May 11 7PM, Concert by Blunn Creek and House Party at J's with the FOK DUB house band. Facebook event.Google map.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not. — Van Morrison
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