From the recording Skyhouse & Scarlet - 2001
Certainly a contender for the most-Beatlesque song I've ever done. And, inexplicably, one of the best sounding. I somehow got the balance right when recording and mixing this one.
I like the vocals, the lyrics, and all the psychedelic sounds:
1) backwards sound effects
2) mellotron / harpsichord samples
3) phased / flanged vocals
4) heavy vibrato / chorus electric guitar
What would Lennon say, I wonder?
Lyrics
June cries
Holds her tongue and runs for cover
This world
Has stomped her toes again
She tries
One escape and then another
So sad
She takes it on the chin,
Tangled in the sin
She will
Rue all her indecisions
She casts
Her pearls before the swine
Truly
Sharp wit makes for swift incisions
And blood
Flows like dime store wine,
It happens all the time
Standing there, aglow in love's display
There's no way, life can snuff you out...
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I am yours and you are
Surely mine
She can't
Know the Skyhouse and the Scarlet
Until
She seeks out the Hand
That gives
Life to bones and love to harlot
Stay clear
Of the shifting sand,
Which swallows promised land
Standing there, aglow in love's display
There's no way, life can snuff you out...
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I am yours and you are
Surely mine