Name: Nose to Tail (ReUnion)
Duration: 5 min 30 s
Channel: Tim de Ferrars
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. Thanks to Trace the Bass, Dick Langford and Steve Nylander for their unflagging (tee hee) help on this.

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The MisKicks

Alternative Brit Rock

The MisKicks comprises a core of three performers, one based in France and two in the UK. We are spending 2007 writing, recording and generally courting disaster on a number of fronts. We plan to release an album in early 2008 - if Dick's dog doesn't eat it first. Again.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Alternative General

Charts

Peak #46

Peak in subgenre #12

Author

Tim de Ferrars

Rights

Tim de Ferrars 2009

Uploaded

July 18, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.0 MB • 128 kbps • 5:30

Story behind the song

Trace the Bass and Steve Nylander performed with Tim de Ferrars on vocals, keys, drums & guitars.  Dick Langford turned up on a very big motorbike, helped with the drums a bit, and mixed it.
Thanks guys.

Lyrics

Nose to Tail (ReUnion)

Welcome to this place called Haight Ashbury.
We're not seriously going to have a fight over this.  Are we?

VERSE 1
Picking over last month's mail,
Messages stacked nose to tail.
The more the text, the less effect.
But who am I to tell?

VERSE 2
I open doors to dusty rooms,
Each one a scene from yesterday.
Windows let the air come in,
But  memories won't blow away.

This day a powder keg has been ignited.

VERSE 3
You wrote a letter every day
I read them all and burned in hell.
The less the text, the more effect.
But who am I to tell?

VERSE 4
I turn the pages day by day
Flicking backwards through our lives.
Twenty years ago this day,
And still that precious memory survives.

BRIDGE
That night I tried to sleep under a tree,
But sleep would not come.
The Confederate forces were massed on the other side of the orchard.
But when I rose before dawn, they were gone.
Their fear was greater than mine.
I learned a lesson.

CHORUS
I'm back from my travels 
And the voyage was just inside my head.
This is where the plot unravels,
Can't I join the grateful dead? 
I'm riding wild emotions,
Like running  horses nose to tail.
It's all there written in your hand,
A thousand words that said....we failed.