Smokescreen Limousine Show
This features the band Inbetween People, with Abe Cloud on vocals, Rory Stalwick on lead guitar, Lee Walters on drums and Dan Ellis on Keys
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another successful breakfast
I wake up in a panic every morning
like there was something I forgot to do
something so important I start shaking
It takes a lot of coffee to calm me down
I'm living in an old abandoned drug store
probably couldn't compete with the CIA
I should've listened to Jim Morisson
Only lawyers survive the heat in L.A.
Another smoke, another drink,
another dirty magazine
Another slow suicide attempted
Another Successful Breakfast
There's somebody layin' in my doorway
they appear to be breathin' but who really cares ?
Summer sun can't cut the fog of air polution
We're all bein' cooked for breakfast today
Another smoke, another drink,
another dirty magazine
Another slow suicide attempted
Another Successful Breakfast
A dollar thirty-nine gets me three eggs,
potatoes,and time
Time to figure out a place to stay
A quarter buys a paper,
new statistics on the homeless
There's not a whole lot left to say
Another smoke, another drink,
another dirty magazine
Another slow suicide attempted
Another Successful Breakfast.
A quick trip through the dark streets of Los Angeles where the extremes of the night leave many wandering aimlessly in search of Another Successful Breakfast. Download this classic Abraham Cloud song and re-live LA the way the Doors saw it , Bleak, Beautiful. Promising and Devastating. Waiting patiently to confuse the pious and reward the lost angels; Johnny Cash fans get a free subway ride.
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Miracle Mile
For some reason this ancient song went running through my mind today. I think I was trying to be Springsteen at the time and write a triumphant story of desperate characters lost in a world they couldn't understand. But It came out all garbled and weird . Something about a "Portable Girl" and a "rabit vacation". Well I guess these are pretty cool images, especially the "rabit vacation". If there are any psychoanalysts in the readership , I'd love to get a rundown on this……
Miracle Mile
My portable girl took a rabit vacation
Borrowed someone's car and took off across the nation
Haven't heard from her in quite a long time
Dangerous Dad was dealing with the problem
Lost the only woman that had ever tried to love him
So he ran through the streets where the people don't smile
Searching for his daughter on a Miracle Mile
Portable Girl met a Dangerous Dad
They were having such a good time the waitress got mad
She'd been working all night to support her child
She never understood it was a Miracle Mile
Miricle mile is waiting down the road
Miracle Mile won't be there when you get old
The road is calling , The chips are falling , Its gonna be fine on a Miracle Mile
It don't call out to non-believers
You need a little faith if you're gonna be leaving
You look to the sky and step on the gas
You realize all those bad times are passed
Miracle Mile is waiting down the road
Miracle Mile won't be there when you get old.
Stuart Pearson is responsible for the arrangement on this , and he did an increbible job geting the "lost parade turned triumphant" sound. Rory Anton is doing a great job on guitar and his friend John from John's Guitar and drum shop is playing some fantastic drums. I think Rick Elias is in there somewhere, at least I remember him being there. And the funniest moment of all was in the middle of our drunken studio revelry Stu dumped a huge cup of coffee all over the board. Quite possibly why we could never work in San Diego again.
Company of Strangers
This song is real in every sense of the word. The working environment has always been strange and ominous to me. I always had to take part time jobs to support my Musical aspirations. These jobs usually revolved around one mans dream to get rich by employing a bunch of dispossessed dreamers to sell his garbage to someone. The lines were always pretty clearly drawn between the winners and the losers. The winners were always vacationing and the losers were doing all the work to buy the umbrella drinks for the bosses. An environment that by its very nature spawns truck-loads of resentment anger and ruined lives. I was always astounded how little I had in common with my co-workers, and even how little they had in common with each other. It was almost always as if we were all wandering through the desert looking for scraps of food and we happened upon an air-conditioned office with free snacks. The song is positive though. It calls for a joining together of the underdogs . Why don't we start our own company ? but unfortunately it realizes that this probably wouldn't work either , because it would have to be called , "The Company of Strangers," If you'd like to hear the original Symphonic version that appeared on "Another Successful Breakfast" click here . Below you'll find a live acoustic version.
Abe with Rory on guitar filmed by Randy Morgan. One of the most classic Cloud tunes , deep shades of Bowie and Pink Floyd with a haunting Lennon-esqe type theme
Company of Strangers
hi, how are you ?
how was your weekend ?
and what are we going to do. today ?
No. I'm OK. It's just that this office is starting to feel like a cage.
in the distance, it shines like a beakon. offering shelter to the lost and the weakened.
but here. in this room. I've whiled away hours and planted the flowers of doom, in my life.
smiles, like they say, can wipe away saddness, but this little game's here to stay.
FOR AN INSTANT I thought I knew you. That day you broke down and smashed up the cooler.
crystal cool water drencend all the carpet. wild nervous laughter filled out department.
as you screamed out,
" Hey what you say ? Why don't we start our own company, and we'll call it the Company of Strangers."
for twenty-five years I have sat by your side typing letters and memos for people who hide behind doorways with titles in hallways of horrible crime. we never had time for the things that we wanted to do when we saved up enough to be happy. it's true in the end all you have is a moment or two.
but, "Hey what you say ? Why don't we start our own company, and we'll call it the Company of Strangers."
