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Wash The Blood With The Rain

from 8 Trackology by John Tabacco

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Words and Music © 1988 by John Tabacco
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC)

Every eight or nine months I would read about some rich kids who tried have sex blindfolded or whatever on the train tracks (probably on a dare) and of course they bit the big one. This tune documents such an event as well as reasoning it away. It was originally intended for the "Creatures" suite on the Akai Years but it found a home on 8 tracks. The drum sound is actually my beat up old drum stool, equalized for maximum slickness. If you listen carefully you can hear a "Wizzard" (a vicious toy top that spins at high cheetah chased speed) whirling around. I got one stuck in my sister's hair once. Boy was she pissed (good scream).

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WASH THE BLOOD WITH THE RAIN

Renda felt empty
Renda felt worse than her shoes
Renda remembers
The day when she heard the sad news

They had to play over it
They had to play "chicken-shit"
Now all that's left is on the train

Wash the blood with the rain

Just like the movies
Renda and I saw the change
Matching the photographs
Everyone looked rather strange

They had to play over it
They couldn't re-write the script
So young, so cold, so free of pain

Wash the blood with the rain

Now doncha know ya sucha winner when you play those baby games?
You can mollify regrets about the future and get your name....
Your name, in the papers where the general population will skim you by
Nothing new about some drunken kinda fools who now reside
On the other side...
On the other side!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We all play over it
There is no benefit but a life (a long and fruitful game)

Wash the blood with the rain

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from 8 Trackology, released September 22, 2014
JT : Vocals, Drum Seat, Guitar, FX

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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.

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