All works of art start as potential. Similarly, all relationships start as potential. When I meet a person I try and see not their mask, with it’s defenses, but what’s underneath. I get accused of refusing to acknowledge who a person is choosing to be right now. When that person is arrogant or rude or selfish then my friends say, “Clyde!!!!!! THIS is what this LOSER is about.” But I say, “Hold on people, this is only what this person THINKS they are about.” So this so called Loser person is confused. But if no one sees their potential then they may not ever see it themselves and that would be tragic.
LYRICS
BOUNCING OFF CLOUDS
Vocals: Clyde
Bösendorfer and Electric Piano: Tori Amos
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Bass: Jon Evans
Electric Guitar: Mac Aladdin
Bouncing off of Clouds we were
Is there a love Lost and Found
Make it easy
Make this easy
it’s not as heavy as it seems
Wrapped in metal
wrapped in ivy
paint it in mint ice cream
We could be Bouncing off the top of this Cloud
I’ll put on my silver
We could be Bouncing off the top of this Cloud
Failure to respond but
I did. but did you listen
Bouncing off the top of this Cloud
I’ll put on my silver
About what you said, has it come to this?
I’ll put on my silver
Bouncing off the top of this Cloud
Well you can stare all day at the sky
But that won’t bring her back
that won’t bring her back
You say you’re waiting on fate
But I think fate is now
I think fate is now
Waiting on us
Make it easy
easy easy
we could make this easy
easy love easy
we could make this easy
make this easy
it’s not as heavy as it seems
wrapped in metal
wrapped in ivy
blue umbrellas now smiling
We could be Bouncing off the top of this Cloud
I’ll put on my silver
About what you said, has it come to this?
I’ll put on my silver
Bouncing off the top of this Cloud
I’ll put on my silver
About what you said, has it come to this?
I’ll put on my silver
Bouncing off the top of this Cloud
Bouncing off of Clouds we were
GIRL DISAPPEARING
Vocals: Clyde
Bösendorfer: Tori Amos
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Bass: Jon Evans
Strings: Edward Bale, Matthew Elston, Holly Butler, Rosmary Bank
Strings arranged and conducted by John Philip Shenale
7 am
So it beings again
1-0 (zip) favoring familiar silhouettes
Left whips and chains
behind I’m boycotting trends
it’s my new look this season
Riding on backs of palominos
Primed for an attack
It’s as good
as good as it gets
With girl disappearing
What on earth’s occurring?
‘cause she’s right in front of me
a girl disappearing
to some secret prison
behind her eyes she whispers
"Big surprise there was
no protection by this urban light
so I’m running to
a constellation
where they can still see you"
Envy can spread
herself so thinly
She slipped in
before I could notice it
In my own war
Blood in the cherry zone
when they
Pit woman against feminist
Riding on backs of palominos
Ditching the blond shell
Working her hell
on that red carpet
With girl disappearing
What on earth’s occurring?
‘cause she’s right in front of me
a girl disappearing
to some secret prison
but she’s right in front of me
a girl disappearing
to some secret prison
behind her eyes she whispers
"Big surprise there was
no protection by this urban light
so I’m running to
a constellation
where they can still see you"
Then I’m running too
If that’s a consolation
‘cause I can still see you
ROOSTERSPUR BRIDGE
Vocals: Clyde
Bösendorfer: Tori Amos
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Bass: Jon Evans
Acoustic and Electric Guitar: Mac Aladdin
Somewhere down past Roosterspur bridge
Perhaps just a trick of the light
I thought I heard the sweetest guitar
Was It a rock and roll jesus
Sometimes I think
I think I understand
The fear in the boy
The fire in the man
Sometimes I watch
The wonder in your eyes
That and you leaving
I have memorized
That and you leaving
I have memorized
Drove all night through Sliding Rock Falls
Thinking I’d find something that we’d lost
Can’t remember when you stopped laughing
Or when I stopped wanting to win
Sometimes I think
I think I understand
The fear in the boy
The fire in the man
Sometimes I watch
The wonder in your eyes
That and you leaving
I have memorized
Do you even see me now
Do you think of us still
Do I always read things in
Before a day’s deliverance
On Roosterspur bridge
Sometimes I think
I think I understand
The fear in the boy
The fire in the man
Sometimes I watch
The wonder in your eyes
That and you leaving
I have memorized
That and you leaving
That and you leaving
I have memorized
BEAUTY OF SPEED
Vocals: Clyde
Dueling pianos: Bösendorfer and Piano upright: Tori Amos
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Bass: Jon Evans
Electric Guitar: Mac Aladdin
We climbed through the canopy
Only to find a crack in our gauge
The last thing a look you gave
and then we tumbled out of control
I tried to strike a deal with
the universe me and my
deals with the universe
Smacked up side of the head
with the harsh of daylight
So simple last evening
The beauty of speed
Afraid we’ve been changin’
in a way I wasn’t lovin’
Feel those colors changing
The beauty of speed
I’m comin’ back for more
out of a black and white world
Past a shooting star
The beauty of speed
See the colors changing
Even still I was built
to tolerate your temper-ature
It fluctuates so I must break
Through the bleak of winter
Through your latest barrier
Your latest barrier
Smacked up side of the head
with the harsh of daylight
So simple last evening
The beauty of speed
Afraid we’ve been changin’
in a way I wasn’t lovin’
Feel those colors changing
The beauty of speed
I’m comin’ back for more
out of my black and white world
Past a shooting star
The beauty of speed
See the colors changing
See the colors changing
See the colors changing
Baby changin’ I see
Afraid we’ve been changin’
in a way I wasn’t lovin’
Feel these colors changing
The beauty of speed
