"Big Car - No Shoes"

With Peter Reid, Ken Vatcher and Jem Savage.

"Big Car - No Shoes" is an oblquely political song, aimed at the paucity of informed comment in the Australian press and parliament these days.  

Boy Wonder Jem Savage lifted the whole thing well beyond what we had envisaged with his soprano sax and Rhodes piano.

Recorded at The Shed and mixed/mastered at Jiguma Studio in Pambula Beach, NSW Australia.

lyrics

Big Car – No Shoes 

©2012 Neil Porter 

Big hat – no cattle
Big sky – but no rain
Nice horse – no saddle
Got a ticket – no plane
Nice wedding – wrong person
Cool Gibson – no blues
Best schools – no learning
Big car – no shoes

Bad war – losing battle
Big smile – you’re in pain
Big bucks – big hassle
Nice tune – but no fame
Nice wedding – wrong person
Cool Gibson – no blues
Best schools – no learning 
Big car – no shoes
Big car – no shoes
Big car – no shoes

Good minders – bad manners
Fast rail – slow train
Low bar – flame fanners
Big head – no brain
Nice wedding – wrong person
Cool Gibson – no blues
Best schools – no learning
Big car – no shoes

Big car – no shoes
Big car – no shoes

credits

"Talk To Myself" - posted this week

I'm finding it harder and harder to finish songs off these days, and I'm not really sure this is finished either. 

Lyrics are maybe self-explanatory (maybe not). Music is all me.

Hope you enjoy it.

lyrics

Talk To Myself 
©2012 Neil Porter 

Talk to myself just a little too much these days
I’m just trying to find what’s going on
I still get puzzled by this crazy haze
It’s been in my head for way too long

I’m gonna rock with it
Gotta roll with it
I’m gonna get back in control
Then I’m gonna go with it
I’m gonna ease my mind
Goin back in time
I’m gonna get back in control
Then I’m gonna grow with it

Wind myself up just a little too tight these days
Just trying to stop things going wrong
Wish I could get back to my easy ways
Go back, get back, go back home

I’m gonna rock with it
Gotta roll with it
I’m gonna get back in control
Then I’m gonna go with it
I’m gonna ease my mind
Goin back in time
I’m gonna get back in control
Then I’m gonna grow with it

Flying just a little too close to the sun some days
Maybe I’ll fall but that doesn’t seem quite right
There’s no escaping from this crazy maze
Fall down, drop down, shut down

I’m gonna rock with it
Gotta roll with it
I’m gonna get back in control
Then I’m gonna go with it
I’m gonna ease my mind
Goin back in time
I’m gonna get back in control
Then I’m gonna grow with it

London/New York/Pambula Beach ;)

Neil featured as "Guest Expert" on MSI's regular weekly show this morning (5:00 start!).  Scrubbed up OK for  a PB boy ;)