Written by Trevor Daly & Theo ten Brummelaar © Pineapple Doughnut 2024
Trevor Daly: Vocals & Bass.
Jim Franklin: Keyboards.
To hide behind the smiles, find the touchstone.
To gaze into a fire and not return the stare.
To find the one I need still hiding somewhere.
Sometimes all the questions have no answers,
And boredom spreads now while I take no chances.
Still I wonder when I'll get to fly.
Still I wonder how long I can try.
So let me see the colours that I've never seen before.
Midnight thoughts just wonder until I can't think no more.
While lovers argue, and honest people cheat
I'll close the blinds on all of you and in darkness fall asleep.
Musicians:
Theo ten Brummelaar: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Drums.Trevor Daly: Vocals & Bass.
Jim Franklin: Keyboards.
Lyrics:
Sometimes I feel the need to be aloneTo hide behind the smiles, find the touchstone.
To gaze into a fire and not return the stare.
To find the one I need still hiding somewhere.
Sometimes all the questions have no answers,
And boredom spreads now while I take no chances.
Still I wonder when I'll get to fly.
Still I wonder how long I can try.
So let me see the colours that I've never seen before.
Midnight thoughts just wonder until I can't think no more.
While lovers argue, and honest people cheat
I'll close the blinds on all of you and in darkness fall asleep.
Technical Notes:
This song was written sometime in the late 1970s while we were still in high-school. It was recorded using bounces between two cassette machines and then in 1988 we re-recorded it in a studio that belonged to a radio station we had access to on 1 inch 16 track analogue tape. It was largely left at that until in 2022 Trevor found the tape in his basement cupboard looking rather sad and mouldy (the tape.... not Trevor). We sent it to a company called Deep Signal Studios (whom we highly recommend) in LA who managed to clean it, bake it, and digitize it giving us 16 wavefiles to play with that sounded like they were recorded a week ago. Like the song Continue, the words were de-naffed as much as possible and resung using the AKG-C414. The bass was a Rickenbacker 4001 and the acoustic guitar a Yamaha of some kind. The drums, a Pearl rosewood kit with Zildjian and Paiste cymbals, were recorded using the microphones available in the studio at the time (SM58 and 57s, a Sennheiser 441, and some condenser mics of some kind) and enhanced a little this time around by adding some kick and snare samples with Studio Logic. Otherwise all the instruments are as they were recorded at the time with Sallie doing the engineering. The long fade out and dreamy KB stuff was Jim's idea and we were all very excited about the Yamaha-DX7 he had at that time, which he still has and which is still in complete working order.