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It Don't Take A Genius

from Straight From The Truancy Genes by John Tabacco

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Words © 2001 by John Tabacco
Music © 1992 by John Tabacco and Marci Geller
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music / Paisley Saucers Music (SESAC)

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IT DON’T TAKE A GENIUS

No show
You’re not a social one
You walk the streets alone

In the night time
Wishing that long lost friends would take you home

The neighbors with their holiday families
you secretly wanted to join...
As moonlight bounces off their driveways
Lighting up a stage for every dead leaf to parade

Well it don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong
It don’t take a genius to connect all the dots
You were meant to suffer on your own

Death could provide a cure

“Cosmos” :
Here is the collage diner where the young bloods feast
In the corner that’s where sit and stab your salad beast


Then suddenly you wake up
And it’s in your face.
All this time recording (gone) see it laid to waste
And for a moment, man it hits you hard
You should have taken chances
Shoulda gone that extra yard

Well it don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong
It don’t take a genius to connect all the dots
You over stayed your welcome, now you’re old
It don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong

Death could provide a cure
In time you will know for sure...

( “Bluebird” paraphrased sax solo)

Suddenly you wake you and it’s seems so clear
The numbers for perfection are written everywhere
Do you enjoy it? And live in the now?
No. A blessed revelation you never could allow

Well it don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong
It don’t take a genius to connect all the dots
You over stayed your welcome, now you’re old
It don’t take a genius to figure it out
You made many choices that were wrong

Death could provide the cure

In time you will know for sure...
In time you will know for sure...
Maybe next time

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from Straight From The Truancy Genes, released September 9, 2014
JT : Vocals, Programming
Recorded and Mixed at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY

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John Tabacco Stony Brook, New York

John Tabacco is a composer, singer-songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and visual artist.

Like an unfolding musical diary / puzzle, Tabacco’s music and art are constantly being re-worked, juxtaposed and intertwined.

For more info : www.johntabacco.net
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