Recently discovered live stage recording (on cassette, unfortunately) of a song I thought was lost forever. DOWAN, circa 1977 ... Pete Dowan, Pat Gamble and Jay Butler.
EARTH SONGS album available. Separate songs 50 cents. Canadian. Medically disabled. Battling Myeloma. Record in my Basement, playing and singing all parts.
Story behind the song
Compressed Description of an Alien Abduction. Made these kind of recordings so we, as a band, could check what we needed to correct. There were a few obvious "flubs" ... seems I momentarily forgot the start of the second verse. Listen for the "Alien Voice" by Jay Butler, by way of a guitar voice box. Pete Dowan (Lead vocal, guitar, keyboard, bass pedals), Jay Butler (Lead Guitar), Pat Gamble (vocal harmony, Drums).
Lyrics
Lyrics & Music © By Pete Dowan
ARE YOU MAN
1st VERSE:
I was standing on the watershed, Looking out into the night.
As I turned to go home and to bed,
there was a blinding light above my head.
I Don't know how I got to where I was.
Don't know where it was I got.
My Head was ringing like a payphone does.
Smothered in questioned thought, a steady buzz.
CHORUS: ( ARE YOU HUMAN...... ARE YOU MAN ?)
ARE YOU WHAT IS KNOWN AS MAN?
SOMEONE ANSWERED "YES I AM"
WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MAN?
ARE YOU WHAT IS KNOWN AS MAN?
DO YOU HAVE A COMMON PLAN?
DO ALL OF YOUR SPECIES STAND?
ARE YOU MAN?
2ND VERSE:
Felt like I was in a crystal ball, that would best describe my cell
I Pressed my face against the prism wall,
but it was dark as hell around it all.
I Felt a nauseating kind of pain, and then I saw myself below
Like a puzzle, a sadistic game,
how will I ever go to sleep again ?
CHORUS: ( ARE YOU HUMAN...... ARE YOU MAN ?)
ARE YOU WHAT IS KNOWN AS MAN?
SOMEONE ANSWERED "YES I AM"
WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MAN?
ARE YOU WHAT IS KNOWN AS MAN?
WHAT IS THIS YOU CALL A HAND?
TELL US HOW YOUR LIFE BEGAN.
ARE YOU MAN?
INSTRUMENTAL FILL:
I THOUGHT MY LIFE WAS DONE,
BUT THEY WERE MOST EFFICIENT
THEY HAD ME BACK ON EARTH AGAIN.
3rd VERSE:
I often hear the questions in my mind
I must have answered them somehow
But they still echo there from time to time
but they are faded now they're all behind.
CHORUS: ( ARE YOU HUMAN...... ARE YOU MAN ?)
ARE YOU WHAT IS KNOWN AS MAN?
SOMEONE ANSWERED "YES I AM"
WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MAN?
ARE YOU WHAT IS KNOWN AS MAN?
SOMEONE ANSWERED "YES I AM"
WE ARE HERE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MAN?
