Swallow Life
let’s riff jump and jive
chug experience feel alive
stay conscious be here now
swallow life
let’s blow beyond our minds
scratch and scribble outside the lines
stay conscious be here now
swallow life
let’s scat sweat and scream
spit in the wind let off steam
stay conscious be here now
swallow life
let’s split running wild
let’s lose the inner child
stay conscious be here now
swallow life
let’s squeeze between the cracks
kick the monkeys off our backs
stay conscious be here now
swallow life
let’s burn man really wail
send the needle right off the scale
stay conscious be here now
swallow life
let’s riff jump and jive
chug experience feel alive
stay conscious be here now
swallow life
wound down
in the mad sad paradise
drivin round in a beat up old black Biscayne
jammin on a james brown backbeat
clockin to the quarter tones
kickin licks around my brain
longin for the lost bohemia
i musta missed it
my appointment with reality
i’m inside on the outside
sitting on the shoulders of time
just ridin it out . . .
Swallow Life
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About This Song:
For the live video, we took Larry Mitchell’s original rhythm bed for the initial demo recording & played it on a Mac laptop – then projected the Itunes screen saver over the performance. Chancey & untried, but it seemed to work & under-scored the urgency of the music. That’s Steve Feierabend on the tenor & Dave Curtis bass.
Song Credits:
Larry Mitchell: guitar
Rob Whitlock: B3 organ/piano
Duncan Moore: drums/sound design
Dave Curtis: bass
Chuck Perrin: narration
