BE SURE TO SLIP ON THE OL' HEADPHONES!! Matthew Scott--String arrangement for "On the Heights", music/lyrics for sample of "Torture", piano doctor, aural springboard; John Pfeifer--Music/lyrics, vocal, synthesizer, guitar synthesizer.

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The "opening" track (HA!) for what was to be (or might still be, who knows) our first "concept album." But that's been the idea for three years... hey, Floyd took years! (yeh, yeh; "You're not Floyd."). Basically we've several things happening, trying to set the stage for "motifs" that run-through/entertwine/connect throughout this fabled LP: "opening..." is mostly sound FX, but the low strings hint at "Mark the Ham Sandwich" (the ellipses after the word are joined sometime on this non-existent album by "...reMark," a mellow re-arrangement of that tune's melody -- which can also be heard in a fashion in the guitar in "Without"). Then "On the Heights" uses a theme in 4/4 at 41 BPM that is later used as the melody for "Down from..." at 100 BPM in 6/4 (that tune's actually getting close to done after 3 years!). "Main St." is the mellow, differently arranged/keyed/tempoed precursor, then, to "Main St. (reprise)" (which we have before Pt. 1 on the page for some reason). The "Main St." parts are a dream-filtered paean to our college days (the school fronted Main St.).
Eh, whatever; enjoy. And remember -- PUT YOUR DARN HEADPHONES ON, FOR CRYIN'...!!

...Back in the land of birthday parties,
and girls you know well that you've never met
before...

Back to the unfamiliar house where you live,
and your room where anyone can just walk
right in the door...

Where you're seeing your world from an impossible
point of view, and Main Street's rather sunny
and warm all year

'round...