The response to my call to help my new album via various “packages” of contribution has been terrific. I can’t thank you all enough. The songs are sounding amazing with David Briggs at the mixing helm. In the lead up to my preview gig in Perth I thought I would post the lyrics of a song or two each week with a sample of the amazing visual input from my artist collaborators. First up is Know What I Feel, a song I wrote in 1976 on returning from the UK where I’d been for 15 months. We played this song in the early Suburbs with @Haydn Pickergsill and Stuart Davis-Slate holding together a reggae kind of feel around John Dennison’s keyboard pattern. The only recording of it was on the live tapes (now Suburbs in the 70s) and as the venues got harsher and louder it was edged out of the set but I always liked it and added it to the set again more recently. The new version is a little different to the old and features a super lap steel solo from Tony. Yvonne Cilia has done this evocative image to go with the mood of the song.
KNOW WHAT I FEEL
(Warner) Image: Yvonne Cilia
I come home what do I find? My house is empty and my friends have all gone
All alone but I’m able to see The path they took when they left without me
Married to the enemy, married to the enemy
They say I need stock, grain to sow The nomad he has no place to go
Come and join us they say Why do you behave in this way?
I can only look at them and tell them and beseech them and say darling
Lord I do not know what I feel I only feel what I know
Lord I do not know what I feel I only feel what I know
Oh No I remember now Bridges that we built
They burned them when they left
Because the enemy said it was necessary
And now we wave sometimes from opposite sides And we cast our words to the wind
But our language has changed with the times And I can only stand there and grin
I can only look at them and tell them and beseech them and say
Lord I do not know what I feel I only feel what I know
Lord I do not know what I feel I only feel what I know
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