Hi All,
It's been a while since I posted anything here. We've been travelling quite a bit and I've been teaching in-between and what with one thing and another...well you know how it is.

Anyway, this is a strange offering which doesn't seem to fit into any particular genre, so it may not appeal to everyone. (Or anyone for that matter.) It's a metaphorical song about how we don't always make connections between actions and consequences, even though they can appear obvious to others, and how we can be oblivious to well intentioned warnings.

It was all tracked-up in Realband and is mainly just me singing and playing guitar and bass with sampled drums. There is an intermittent girl backing vocal which is an RT and a synth bass RT on the ending. For those who are interested in such things, the guitar is a Tele, the bass is a Jazz and the drums were sampled from a 1960's Premier kit (in aquamarine sparkle) with a chrome 2000 snare and 22in kick drum. The sample player was Speed-drum. As ever, I'm always grateful to anyone who is kind enough to give it a listen.

TELL THE CHILDREN
She took a wrong turn and hit the twilight zone
And Henrietta, she's not going home
She's walking down the wrong path but she don't seem to care
She's heading down a one way street that's going nowhere

Well Billy's up there and he's not coming down
He wasn't on the A-List, but he turned it all around
He's climbed the ladder and he's nearly at the top
But he hasn't seen the snake that's lurking in the grass

Lightning Pete he used to be a star
Well he could sing like an angel and he played guitar
But now he's getting older and he's lost his way
'Cause if you live in the past you can forget to live today

Sometimes you see it and sometimes you don't
But it don't make no difference 'cause it's too late to turn around
You run through the red light, it was dark on the stop sign
And a man on the radio was singing 'bout the good times
Tell the children, but they won't listen.

All the best to my old friends here.
ROG

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