I’ll never figure out why I loved you so.
I took my life and dreams and gave it up for you but you didn’t know.
The sound of your voice, like a warm summer kiss.
I sacrificed my self-respect and dove headfirst into the abyss.
To tell you the truth I just don’t care anymore.
I jumped in thinking love is God, I came out knowing God is war.
If there’s a way to fight back—well, I ain’t found it yet.
But time has made me blind, it works like magic so I always forget
why I did the same thing that always turned out so bad
and tried to satisfy you but the more I gave the more you got mad.
To tell you the truth I just don’t care anymore.
I still can’t understand why I didn’t resist until the road rose up to
meet my face and felt just like a concrete fist.
You told me the truth and made it perfectly clear: the day would come
when everyone would watch me crawl away in fear.
To tell you the truth I just don’t care anymore.
God is war.
credits
from Saint Ain't,
released March 17, 2014
Matt Malley: bass
Chris Arduser: drums
RF: everything else.
XTC had their moment in time...this recording extends it...Full of small, tight , quirky songs it juz rolls along. Recommended but maybe only for XTC fans.. cwhitney
Psychedelia of a darker shade than usual, Francie Moon eschew kaleidoscopic colors for a slow, sludgey trek through the sonic badlands. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 16, 2019
John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP. yellowcakeuf6