From the recording High Tea for Poets/Father Time (2CD-Pak)
Jeff Cannon: Vocals and acoustic guitar
Keith Skooglund: Electric guitar
Jamey Reid: Drums and percussion
Dan Dolan: Bass
Recorded 2001, Airtime Studio, Bloomington, IN.
JDC: This is about the drug epidemic reaching into our formerly idyllic spaces, and the need to not look away from it but instead to do something.
Lyrics
Needle
Rest stop, five a.m., I’m waking from another sleep,
A breeze is on the way, so say the autumn leaves,
I feel the breeze, a fine New England town.
Young girl in a car, she’s sinking in a pillow haze,
Needle in her arm, and this is all that I can take,
I lie awake, a fine New England town.
It’s a vandal on a Picasso,
It’s a needle breaking the skin,
But real life ain’t a Picasso,
And I gotta stop trying to make it so.
Rest stop, eight a.m., I was gonna see the autumn leaves,
Time is standing still, I guess I’m standing watch,
While a young girl sleeps in my New England town.
It’s a vandal on a Picasso,
It’s a needle breaking the skin,
But real life ain’t a Picasso,
And I gotta stop trying to make it so,
I think I’ll do something differently today,
I need to do something differently today,
Today, you can come along if you want to.
Rest stop, ten a.m…