This is another one of those songs that was written on the piano and never played until it was recorded in the 90s, when I didn't have a very good piano.
Written: Monterey
Street, Farmington NM, 1974
Knees was thinking
about Diane, the singer in the band Country, when he wrote this song, but as
usual, the plot didn’t necessarily follow real life. If a line rhymed, and had a
good sound to it, Knees would use it even if it suddenly changed the thrust of
the song.
The last thing on my
mind
Was to bring you down
with me
What started out as a
partnership
Soon had us on our
knees
I thought that we would
find
A way to make it last
But we were thinkin
like we used to
We were livin in the
past
Such a sad sad feelin,
To know the one you
love
Is the one you got to
leave
To be free, to be free,
to be free.
There’s so much to do
An so little time to
live
We thought we’d take
the world apart
We had so much to give
So remember me this way
As your partner and
your friend
An remember all the
times we had
And maybe have again
Smiling Buddha
