Dysfunctional Family Blues
From Woozalia
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Specs
- Type: song with words
- Version: 1.0 (recorded c.1993) (written 1992 or 1993)
- Download: (MoG) MP3
- Video: YouTube - me performing this on the piano at Smith Family Reunion talent show, 2010-07-10 (vocals barely audible)
Lyrics
- A thousand tiny airplanes wander through your mother's garden
- As she paints a golden picture of the way it used to be
- I listen as you whistle all of Mozart's major pieces
- And you're breaking all my records but it doesn't bother me
- So you've taken all your medals and you're using them as doorstops
- And you've sold your family diamonds to the madman down the street
- Well listen here my darling -- you've got to take it slowly
- They will put you in a fishtank very philosophically
- Alas I spoke too quickly, I'll rephrase that faulty stanza
- While you're busy hunting shadows in your castle by the sea
- So now I'm standing in the alley and you're drawing little circles
- And you always pay attention to everyone but me
MoG version
The download is Mother of God's version of this, which I'm not 100% happy with; I will eventually copy the 8-track master into the digital domain and see if I can fix it.
Credits:
- Dan Dudley: bass, group vocals, equipment
- Brian Morris: lead guitar
- Tim Kunkle: rhythm guitar, group vocals
- Dave Keating: drums
- me: piano, lead vocal
- Livia Wade: operatic solo vocal, group vocals
Notes
I wrote this for Jenny.
Some of the lyric lines could use a bit of rework*, but overall it says what I want it to.
(*everyone sees "family diamonds" and thinks it's a reference to gonads or something, which it isn't; also "madman down the street" doesn't quite fit. "pawnshop down the street"? I wanted to convey the idea of carelessly abandoning something very precious. A bit like this BF5 lyric from "Where's Summer B?": "I tried to tell you, tried to tell you, took a little bit too long / And now your phone is disconnected and your shit's out on the lawn.")
