I Think They Want Me

In an alternate timeline this is the song that became a hit, got used in a car commercial, and eventually became a profitable load-stone we could never remove from the set. Like many missed opportunities in my life I am keenly aware of the nightmare possibility of the path not taken.

It’s not like we didn’t try to push this song. It’s the only one from these sessions that would end up on the “Porch Music” CD, most likely because it was such a raucous and popular closing song in our set and, as with “The Wrong Side Of Town”, because it was easy.

I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Mostly embarrassed.

It’s ostensibly a song about buying a car, something I did with a big chunk of the money I made from “A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master” but looking back now it’s actually about the baffled arrogance that would eventually sink me in so many ways.

I was loving the attention AND it made me suspicious of those who were giving it to me. In retrospect I may have been better off if I was more suspicious of my own self-sabotaging motivations but that takes time and I was 21 years old with a whole lotta mistakes yet to make.

Written by Andras Jones

Andras Jones – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Trumpet
Billy Lincoln – Lead Guitar
Clay Goldstein – Harmonica
John K. Hench – Bass Guitar
Michael G. Silvester – Drums

Produced & Engineered by Billy Lincoln