Getting band members is proving more difficult than I thought. I’ve had one response from someone who sounded like a serial killer! He said something about having plenty of “free time” and that he liked ‘earth music’. Actually, he said he was from Chorlton too so he was probably just an unemployed hippy. Either way – no dice, pal!
I’m gonna look at putting some of my music online. I’ve got plenty of sound recording equipment and also my Polycom Soundstation 2 should I want to transmit it over the web. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll use it and set up a webcam and do a stream on the internet??
So I’ve been just letting the music flow from me. Trying some stuff, stroking a few chords off, whatever. I’ve come up with a ballad about a man who had a nervous breakdown last year which ended his marriage…
“Hard Pill To Swallow” (Words and music by M. Barker)
They found me in a skip,
I thought it was a house.
I hung on to a mouse.
I said it was my sister.
The doctor told me: “Steve,
This isn’t all a lark,
You’ve took your leave from Sanity Park,
And your heard is in the dark.”
Chorus:
It was a hard pill to swallow,
When you told me to go.
Without saying goodbye to the kids.
And I had to move to Chorlton.
My job was now in flames,
But I said that I’d be back,
I said I’d start a band,
And we’d be on the Top of the Pops.
Chorus x2
Bridge:
WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?
WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?
WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?
WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?
Bridge 2:
I’M FINE NOW
I’M FINE NOW
I’M FINE NOW
I’M FINE… NOWWWWWWWWWWW
Chorus x3
It’s about my friend.
[...] had her post-shower nap I approached her with some of my lyrics, namely Love on an Aeroplane and Hard Pill to Swallow. Both classic Barker tracks, and I was curious to see if we could add a bit of post-Kim-Cairnes [...]