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TUNE RIDER

from Tune Rider by Gordon Michaels

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I wanted to have a title track so I worked this up based on the E to D progression...the theme is of course the unpredictability and sometimes fickleness of the "Muse"--the ancient Greek demi-goddesses in charge of inspiring artists...I started with the idea of "Tune Writer" but changed it to add some verbal playfulness and double entendre...now the focus is not on the writer but on the Muse as she "rides' in on another song inspiration...sometimes She is generous--sometimes not...although "muses" can mean to think or ponder I use it as the inspiration/influence of the Muse in inspiring a song...

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TUNE RIDER
Sometimes she muses me in the nighttime
Sometimes she muses me in the day
Sometimes abuses me and she flat out refuses me
And she loses me and she holds it back
And it all just fades away

Sometimes the music comes in the mornin’
Eyes closed and floating deep in a dream
Sometimes she teases me and then-- Then she releases me
When her old man Zeus really cuts her loose
And she really lets it play
Tune Rider—and she muses me
Tune Rider—and confuses me
Tune Rider—and abuses me—bring me a tune!
Oh! Bring me a tune!
Sometimes she brings me a tune at the right time
Sometimes it’s inconvenient as hell
Sometimes the melody’s sweet
But the tempo’s wrong for this kind of a song
And the metaphor is a dinosaur and really have to say
[Chorus]
Don’t you now that you’re messin’ with my mind
When you’re takin’ too much time
I need another rhyme and I gotta have it right away
I guess I’ll keep on strummin’ cause I feel a bridge is comin’
I need a clever change in the middle of the tune and I pray…
[Chorus]

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from Tune Rider, released October 8, 2020
Gordon Michaels: vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Ron Turner: guitar, drum programming
Paul Soroka: sax

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Gordon Michaels Baltimore, Maryland

Gordon Michaels is a singer songwriter living in Parkville, Maryland with his wife Mary Ann and his dog, Mazie. Jack of Hearts and Tune Rider are Gordon's first album releases since his debut Stargazer on A&M Horizon Records in 1979. Gordon splits his time between writing, recording and teaching at Towson University. ... more

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