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3 Solid Blows to the Head

from 3 Solid Blows to the Head by Adam Stemple

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This may have been my first song matching vernacular more suited to crime novels with metaphors and images from religion and ancient history, a thing I've done a lot of since.

Vocal treatment on this was pure tube mic distortion. More EBow, analog synth and backwards guitar at the very end. I even played some congas. Listen for the hidden verse included in the lyrics.

Play through to the very end and get the secret track which is the title theme I wrote for an independently produced gay soap opera called "We-Ho Stories" set in West Hollywood.

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I wish my blood was ice and my skin was bone
and my eyes were daggers of steel
I wish I'd cut you up; I wish I'd sent you down
before you could make your deal.
But if I'm the fall guy for certain, let's draw the final curtain
on Hamlet and his crazy facade,
and I'll meet you in the lobby where the players take their bows
and the crowd can't do nothing but applaud.

Now, if my mind was sound and my hearing straight,
I might forgive what I can't forget.
But it seems to me when the devil runs,
he needs a fast horse more than a pet.
So when the time comes for dreaming, I'll be real to your seeming
and we'll see who the pundits choose:
the prince or the pauper or the pretty young thing
or just the guy with nothing to lose.

If my time was my own, if my seeds had been sown,
if my hand didn't tremble at all,
then the end would be different but beginning the same
when Goliath wouldn't take his fall.
So, if I'm betting the under, I'll take the pints and the thunder,
and we'll see if you can cover the spread.
'Cause it's one for the money,
and two to let go,
and 3 Solid Blows to the Head.

I never thought it wasn't true
but I thought it wasn't you.
You wouldn't' have planned it that way
By the time I knew the truth,
all I'd given was my youth
and lost my only chance to make a play.

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from 3 Solid Blows to the Head, released May 18, 2021
Music and lyrics by Adam Stemple

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Adam Stemple Minneapolis, Minnesota

Adam has played so much guitar it'd make your ass hurt. Road dog for 20 years, in town Irish bars for another 20. Played everything from metal to folk to ethno-gothic-sludge-jazz. Winner of two Minnesota Music Awards.

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