The PINK ONE

Lyrics enclosed

Features fourteen songs, recorded in spring of 2003. Eleven PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED songs plus three re-recordings of faves from the vinyl years.

THE SONGS

1. After Life Goes By A song about hopes in conflict with beliefs.
2. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Humans have always had an odd effect on the planet. The Noahs are no exception.
3. Let Me Know This is about the unspoken agreement to allow certain things to remain unspoken.
4. Bird Bird Bird A drive through town, inspired by the rhythm of telephone wires and birds going by.
5. Forsythia A love song written in 7/4 time, being sung alternately by a baker and a gardener.
6. Family Car First recorded in 1988, about one facet of being broke in America.
7. Metropolitan Scruples First recorded in 1986, about the difficult task of drawing ethical lines.
8. Ralph to Rose This is for the dogs in Peter's Fidocentric history, particularly Izzie and Rosie.
9. How Do You Know Critics are strange, which makes the world peculiar because everybody's a critic.
10. Insomnia This is an anthem for those of us who are regularly ignored by the sandman.
11. Winter Winter would be a whole lot nicer if it weren't so miserable, but we don't mind.
12. Alphabet Polka First recorded in 1988. Tho sung by Lou, the theme is biographically closer to Peter.
13. Million Years If a million years were equal to a mile, then a year would be one sixteenth of an inch.
14. Amalgamated Gigawatt McGoo Our anti-deregulation song, commissioned by Wisconsin Public Power Inc. in 1999.