Distortion

Release date: 1984

The band: Scott Miller, Nancy Becker, Fred Juhos, Dave Gill

Guest musicians: Michael Quercio, Ernie Smith, Gordon Beadle, Michael Stoaks

Producer: Michael Quercio

Shark Pretty
Nine Lives to Rigel Five
The Red Baron
Kid Convenience
Too Late For Tears

Shark Pretty

"Crows" line by Nancy Becker and Dr. George Becker

Close out sound and sight
Crows are on the moon tonight
I am nearly beaten down
In cold water nearly drowned
Nearly told the way I do is wrong
My eyes deceiving all along
My my my honey hug me, hug me like you know
Like you know, 'cause they say we don't know
My my my baby pet me, pet me like you know
Like you know, 'cause they say we don't know
And I say we do so I say we do so
Blue and green the light
Sharks are in the sea tonight
Oh such pretty saboteurs
Say you'll never know for sure
But when I say I'm in love with you
I mean that's something always true

Nine Lives To Rigel Five

Side by side slide by space and time
The Neil Armstrong telecasts of Nineteen Sixty-Nine
Proportion distortion I saw in those shoes
And I learned a kind of ego that I doubt I'll ever lose
It's nine lives to Rigel Five, nine lives to Rigel Five
And I've waited nine lives for Rigel Five
With nothing to say when I arrive
Joan Jones proposed that we leave our homes
Like runaway gnomes in the twilight zone
They said, baby, when you're grown it all means more
I said, let's get out the twister game and get down on all fours
It's nine lives to Rigel Five...
Well I know a problem that physics can't resolve
A cover that acid won't dissolve
A place that's just too far, I think, for us to go
Now is right to have a hope so strong
For real-time answers to real-world wrongs
Oh Susanna if you've got to cry for me
Send me back to Alabama with a banjo on my knee
And nine lives to Rigel Five, nine lives to Rigel Five
And I've waited nine lives for Rigel Five
With nothing to say but goodbye

The Red Baron

Oh, wish I knew where you'll go
Oh, you're making plans, I know
So do just as you have to do
But ask when you get there
Would I have pledged my life? I do
Who's going to drive away the loneliness?
Who's going to justify the ugliness?
Who's going to give us our inheritance?
Who's going to say we once were innocent?
Oh, decisions made too fast
Seem to be the ones that last
So tell me life is short
And don't explain a thing
I will never ask you more
Now my friends are asking if I got what I was wanting
Such a high ranked jerk since moving out of town
Handing down the sky when what they wanted was my shoulder
No one's got that kind of patience when you're down
One day you 'll ask me why I hang around
Oh please, stay the way I hate you, stay the way I hate you, can't you?
Who's going to drive away the loneliness?
Who's going to justify the ugliness?
Who's going to give us our inheritance?
Who's going to say we once were innocent?
Who's going to nullify the carelessness?
Who's going to finance our deliverance?
Who's going to have a little sympathy?
Who's going to say you can't do this to me?

Too Late For Tears

Doing the slant step in El Paso this year last
Girl don't the short of breath go out of business fast?
And from the letters that I send, you count the days
And never get past one
'cause time is something in the past
And you can blame your friends
Break like china plates, or maybe change your name again
No one stops here when they're this far
Don't lock up the breaks don't strip all the gears
Too late for tears baby, too late for tears
Don't say it's not up there written in stars
I don't want to hear
Too late for tears baby, too late for tears
Is this the voice that used to scare me when I'd call
Saying it ends in resignation after all?
And having fought so many wars
A thousand victories on the floor
Did you think there'd be a prize for thinking small?
Hiding from the man
But is he real or just a scrape with truth you didn't plan ?
Get in the car, you don't belong
Winning the hours and losing the years
Too late for tears baby, too late for tears
Don't say it's not up there written in stars
I don't want to hear