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This song consists of a few minutes of noodling on a loop pedal with an electric guitar to make noises and swells while a piano song entitled "Your Mother Dresses You Funny" is played in the background. I always felt the piano track had sort of a haunted saloon-ish quality to it, and I would always end up playing parts of it when I would sit down at a piano. All of this happens before the substantial section of the actual "Careful" song starts; it was a fleeting habit of mine to do some sort of wanky noise at the start of a track and have the song come in later (like in the original demo recording of "Gibberish" or the recurring instrumental sections of "Passing It Off as Art"). For the sake of continuity, though, I'll probably end up doing it the same when I record the third phase of these songs in the future.

There is also an a capella arrangement of parts of this song I've had lying around for years that I still may end up using, but I'm not sure whether or not that will actually happen.

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Turn your head this way to see a sore sight again. Turn your eyes around into the back of your head until I am dead or underground

Because your looks could kill
And your smile could drown
Anyone in this town
That tries to play dead

And manage to say you'll be around some day if we're letting you in,
You're cold, you're pale, your brittle bones are frail
You poor thing, you'll catch a cold if you're not careful.

I'll sneak behind you and breathe down your neck. Be calm, it's just the wind whispering your name. You'll be so famous around here.

One day at a time,
I'll be reeling you in
You can squirm all you want,
But I've got you by the scales

And I will say that I'll visit today, if you're shutting me out
And shutting your mouth. Well mine is glued, so now we'll see who really has the nerves to leave lips loose
The temerity to choose
What can and can't we do
Don't leave things up to me
We'll never see it through

credits

from The Waterworks (demo), released January 1, 2004
P Davis: Electric guitar
Acoustic guitar
Piano
Accordion
Cello
Bass
Drums
Glockenspiel
Synth arrangements
Vocals

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