This is an updated version where I got Dee Dee Butter's from the PepTides in to sing the vocal parts I had originally used a sampler on.
By then I had also done a version with Kenny Kanwisher and Denis Clement (see City Lights Trio). Never one to throw something away I like I used their parts in addition to the ones I had already recorded in the original version. They are both stellar players so they were able to play along to a clik track seamlessly, so I was able to mix and match freely. You can hear Denis right from the beginning (and my drum part fades in and out) and then Kenny takes over the bass line for verse 2.
lyrics
She could not believe
all the things she lost in the time she was
looking for something else,
and in the end, when it all became too much to bear
she gave up.
Walking down the city streets in her little red tattered dress
smiling at the strangers who didn't even look in her eyes,
she was something special then,
and now she realized she's not that anymore.
I can see the city lights,
like a beacon in the night
I can see my life lies there
she won't wait for me.
And all the time she thought
it was going to change for her one day,
voices from the angels came down,
and there in her basement,
in front of her dirty stove and
the pots and pans that hadn't been cleaned for days,
and the grimy window and the sink full of dirt,
a feeling of joy and epiphany filled her,
swept over her and she felt her,
feet raising from the ground,
and a shaft of sunlight beamed down upon her head
and she raised slowly into the air,
and she said good-bye to everything she never liked,
and all the things that had abandoned her.
I can see the city lights,
like a beacon in the night
I can see my life lies there
she won't wait for me.
credits
from The Rapids Demos,
track released August 31, 2011
Dee Dee-vocals
Denis Clement-drums
Kenny Kanwisher-bass
David-guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, vocals