To and Fro
Billy Lincoln’s guitar playing is once-again stellar on this and it makes me wonder why he left the band, even though I’m pretty sure it was me who initiated the change. I was so hot in pursuit of the artistic vision that would define The Previous and he was far more professional than I was so it’s always possible he quit. All I remember now is the good stuff, like his playing on this track.
I mentioned when discussing “Down, Down, Down” how having a harmonica player in the band was comforting because my father played harmonica? There’s an even weirder synchronicity with Billy that relates to my mother. When I was growing up she told the story of how her brothers would tease her about her first grade school boyfriend, “Little Billy Lincoln! Little Billy Lincoln”.
This was an oft told story and the sing song taunt was as much a part of my childhood as any nursery rhyme.
It’s the kind of thing that can’t have the impact on anyone else that it still has on me, like something from a dream that walked into my reality. I’m not always great with names but one name I will never forget is Billy Lincoln.
Lyrics
Somewhere out there is a life
with your name on it
Your friends and your relatives
They say “shame” on it
They cannot tell you nothing
that you don’t already know
so I wonder why you wander
to and fro
Well you still believe in a paradise
and it haunts you
but you cannot believe that anyone
really wants you
but I cannot tell you nothin’
that you don’t already know
but I wonder why you wander
to and fro
Well, I wonder ’bout the same things too
but why am I so much better off than you
I wander bout the same things
to and fro
Well this life of complexity may be a trap
and maybe the reason that we are here
is to deal with that
No one can tell you nothin’
that you don’t already know
so I wonder why you wander
to and fro
Credits
Andras Jones – Vocals
Billy Lincoln – Lead Guitar
Clay Goldstein – Harmonica
John K. Hench – Bass Guitar
Michael G. Silvester – Drums
Produced & Engineered by Billy Lincoln
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