HOLE IN THE GROUND

(4/20/02 NYC)

There’s a hole in the ground where my foot fell in.

Hit the blacktop hard in the intersection.

Trash piled high on Mulberry Street.

The sightseeing bus got a laugh on me.

Hole. Hole in the ground.

There’s a hole in the ground. Cab ran the light.

Landed on my back when I side-stepped right.

With my knee banged up. Crawling to the beat

of the horns and the screams in the Soho heat.

Bring a shovel. Bag of sand.

Bucket of tar and a strong pair of hands.

Won’t take much in the sweat and the din.

Fill the damn thing in. Fill the damn thing in.

There’s a hole in the ground where the words all fail.

When the dust settles down on a thousand tales.

Spoken in the past into plastic ears

of the girls behind glass, frozen all these years.

PLAYERS

MICHELE VAN KLEEF - Lead Vocal, Harmony Vocal

ALBERT REDA - Bass, Hammond Organ, Background Vocals

JIM WALKER - Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars and Solo, Electric Guitars and Solos, Background Vocals, SFX, Samples.

Recorded and mixed by JIM WALKER at Studio515. Portland, OR

Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering

@fostermastering

All Rights Reserved.

All material written by James Stanley

C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)