“House on the Hill”
Live Underground, 3.25.12
“Bring it Back”
Live Underground, 3.25.12
house must come from a wash, 2nd verse a collage from the traintrack woods
your words must have piano, think soul, motherfucker
don’t overthink that overthought
trumpet flute violin
floor tom
keys
it was an autumn night that i lost my coat
wandered stiffly down a village road
my one and only, had turned me away
set my gaze upon a crumbling arch
it wouldnt be something without someone
to be thinking bout folks who wasted away
i want to bring it back
this is the only way
but you can’t, you can’t
Lots of comedians seem to be wounded people. Is there a lot of truth to that?
“For the most part, yes, but in a great way. That’s true of all great artists, or at least any artist who has ever touched me. You can have someone who’s overly sensitive and doesn’t have an interesting life, and they’re not going to be interesting. And you can have someone who has terrible things happen to them, but they’re not sensitive enough to realize it. And then there’s the perfect storm, which is the over-sensitive idiot who has horrible things happen to them, and they get out of the fetal position — at least for some amount of time — and escape it by externalizing it. It happens in music, and it can happen in comedy. That escape is the art. Comedy does not come out of a wacky, fun childhood.”
- David Mirkin, executive producer & showrunner on The Simpsons
