Sunday Man

FinsburyParkCarrots

(It's a song)



Sunday Man, how goes your plan?
You said you were usurper, but in truth I stepped aside.
How's your fun, now? Guess who won?
When you recover from your stupor
You'll have nothing of your pride.

You can keep on demanding the limelight:
You can keep on controlling the lead.
You can make your encores after midnight:
But I know you're dead.

Sunday Man: Did you hear the one
About silence, cunning, exile
and the way to win a war?
So, has it been in the space between
my cameo appearances,
the Joy you'd thought in store?

When you took on the stage, did you feel loved?
Did you see the ghosts out in the wings?
Did you think that you once had the crowd moved?
Or were they moved by other things?

(Instrumental break)

You can keep on demanding the limelight:
You can keep on controlling the lead.
You can make your encores after midnight
But I know you're deaddeaddead.


You know you fail at all that you try to do
You know you fail at all that you try to do
You know you fail at all that you try to do
Yes, you know you fail at all that you try to do

Sunday Man
Sunday Man.....

anOmis

is it your song?

FinsburyParkCarrots

Damn right it is. Oh yes. Would you like me to put more in that vein? I'll oblige on request. There's a lot of them.

anOmis

so all the songs u post here , they are all yours??

fucking brilliant..you a genious on my eyes...

FinsburyParkCarrots

Here's the one card you can't return:
See me deal it just for you.
Throw it back again but you will learn:
You get this card and then you're through.
Nine of diamonds
Nine of diamonds
From the green
and to the blue

You saw the ethic of a sacred code
Then tried to break the good in two.
You have the card: you'd better pay it heed:
You've brought the death-hounds into view.
Nine of diamonds
Nine of diamonds
From the green man to the blue.

Hadn't you better run now?
Your face is too known to be loved.
And wouldn't you say you've been wrong now?
My curse writes, you'll never be saved...

as long as you're here.....

(instrumental break)

Can't you just sense the change now?
Each molecule starting to die?
Wouldn't you say you've been wrong, now?
The last retribution's in play.
So, what do you say?


NINE OF DIAMONDS FOR YOU
NINE OF DIAMONDS FOR YOU
NINE OF DIAMONDS FOR YOU
NINE OF DIAMONDS FOR YOU







(May 1998)

FinsburyParkCarrots

I got older and wiser....
Love is all you need.

phishgod

Nice lyrical flow there Fins,
its got' it's own music, & the
Nine of Diamonds
works for me too, but probably
for different feelings
than most--its got a nice almost
Robert Hunter quality to it,
I think I'd put it to maybe
New Riders of the Purple Sage,
band may be a little of topic for the PJ board,
but I bet if you added a peddle steel guitar to it,
maybe make you a big old star

FinsburyParkCarrots

Funny you should say that.
It's in DADGAD, with the capo on the 4th fret. There's a lot of picking and twiddling on it.
Haven't played it live since 1999, though. I was just going through a tape of songs, and when I got PM encouragement to put another couple of lyrics on the board, well, you know...

It's a bit angsty, undoubtedly. But I was still in my 20s when I wrote it.....!!!!!


Thanks.

anOmis

Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
I got older and wiser....
Love is all you need.

you dont get older..you just get better