Knees was sort of in a low point, musically, in 1974. For part of the year he wasn't in a band at all, and was just going to the community college in Farmington. Then he and Bill Smith and Johnny Harris started playing at Dizzies Bar and a semblance of normalcy returned. A year later he was off to Las Cruces and even more uncertainty.
Written: Monterey Street, Farmington NM, 1974
Our boy was feeling
uncreative one day and decided to dash off a song, just to see if he still
could. It was actually more pretentious than this, with a stupid verse about
fish and birds that Knees wisely left off the final version. No inspiration;
just a bunch of dark, whiny lyrics. Interesting chord pattern, though.
When a man has been
runnin
For as long as I have
He learns it’s easier
to accept than to refuse
So when I found the
perfect lady
An we lived the perfect
day
I knew I would someday
have to choose
Between my runnin days,
Borrowed nights and
you.
When you came into my
bedroom
On those cold winter
nights
With another man’s dust
on your skin
I thought about
sprinklin
Some salt into your
wounds
I was jealous of the
places you had been
But it’s all back to
dust in the end
Why must a man have
emotions
It’s like havin two
brains inside your head
One of them says you
want,
The other says you need
An neither one can help
you when you’re dead.
I kept myself from
screamin
For as long as I could
Thinkin bout the good
things we had done
But then last week’s
mania
Took us right up to the
edge
So I went out an bought
myself a gun
With a bullet I could
even dark the sun.
Why must a man have
emotions
It’s like havin two
brains inside your head
One of them says you
want,
The other says you need
An neither one can hurt
you when you’re dead.
Hoover Vac
