Bone Orchard - I Can't Talk To You (Redux) - 1988/2023

ⒸCorcoran 1988 Ⓟ Corcoran BMI 1990

Part of a redo on the entire 1990 Bonafide EP. Another song about my departure from my previous band. Despite the aging of the skills and the voice, THIS is what it was always supposed to sound like 33 years ago. While the original recording got the job done in some ways, it was too "poppy" in the end, and too muddy, especially the bass because of all the pick scratching on the strings by the guilty party.

All instruments and vocals (this time) courtesy of M. Corcoran (the "last man standing"). Sometimes when you want something done right....

Lyrics:

I try to tell you what I'm thinking, I try to make it all so clear.
But you're too busy blinking and clarity's the thing you fear.
When black and white stares you in the face, you paint your world as some
some gray place,
Where there is no right or wrong and we can't survive like this too long.

I can't talk to you; no, I can't talk to you

You tell me that you need me and all those lines you feed me
Blur into a wall of sound that I can't get around.
And now I find no pleasure in the things we used to treasure,
And you just laugh it off, so now I'm jumping off.

I can't talk to you; no, I can't talk to you.

And now you're free to sit and whine about how life's so unkind,
And nothing you can do will change it
So why bother to rearrange it
When you can just sit there and fade away.

You say there is no reason, you say there is no sense,
And babble on and on about how life's coincidence.
And you believe everything you read but don't believe in what you say.
And you make plans for your tomorrows, but you're already history.

I can't talk to you; no, I can't talk to you.