a Free For All!! (original album)
a Free for All!! (original album)
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tedgiffin
Artist and Musician
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue live (for Todd)
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (cover). (lyrics) You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast Yonder stands your orphan with his gun Crying like a fire in the sun Look out the saints are comin’ through And it’s all over now, Baby Blue. The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense Take what you have gathered from coincidence The empty handed painter from your streets […]
Rid of Me (PJ HARVEY COVER)
Rid of Me. (lyrics, changed a bit to fit my gender) Tie yourself to me No one else No, you’re not rid of me Hmm you’re not rid of me Night and day I breathe Hot hot air Hey, you’re not rid of me Yeah, you’re not rid of me Yeah, you’re not rid of me Yeah, you’re not rid of me I beg you, my darling Don’t leave me, I’m hurting Lick her legs I’m on fire Lick her legs of […]
Journal Entry (circa 1995)
The family thinks that I’ll ‘go’ insane. I read to many biographies of Dylan. Acquaintances treat me like a defective toy that they loved when they were four years old. Rimbaud- “I was damned by a rainbow.” I think he was speaking for all defectives when he said that. Prison Shelters for youths. Asylums and correctional facilities for adults. All inmates. The outcasts. When I am sane, I’m treated like a Madman. When I am a Madman, everyone ‘knows’ […]
It’s My Funeral!
Walking my 77 year old dog (in human years) thru the foggy, pre-dawn hours. Giving her relief. She is coated in the rain drenched grass, six inches high. She is slick, black, like my shiny soaked shoes. Looking down, I realize that I feel as if I am wearing ENORMOUS RED CLOWN BOOTS. We sit. I begin to laugh, “It’s my funeral! I want dancing clowns blowing horns as they lay me to rest into my grave!” I blurt, “It’s MY FUNERAL! […]
Moment of Dark Humor (circa 1996)
Chicken Little was right- the sky is falling. THE SKY!!! Want to go to a Hotel? Cuz you are a roach. The restaurant business- you go in, and you NEVER GO OUT. Isn’t it neat? They blew the president’s head clean off and it fell right into the first lady’s lap. No conspiracy. Good shot. Skeet shooting by Oswald. Too bad we did not get to see Lee Harvey hanged like Mussolini and dragged thru the streets. I lie like a 5 […]
Talk to a Stranger (original song)
Talk to a Stranger. (lyrics) Don’t know where to go, How to act. What I say is Too Revealing or Concealing Lies I Couldn’t Cover for if I tried. Long Calls at Night said, “Everything will be alright, Some of my thinking is not so real and I don’t know how to deal.” Talked to a stranger who was there. He said, “What happened? and Why Should I Care?” Long calls at night you told me that Everything’s alright. Ya know, my […]
Artist- Ted Giffin - Musician 