Vultures

Here's another from the "Twist" session in Stowe, VT in May 1997. Vultures was Trey's from the start -- he asked me to push the buttons on the tape deck while he composed the intro on piano...which I remember being very excited about. His jazzy drum beat made me realize he had a vision and was on auto-pilot. Then he added guitar and vocals. Scott Herman helped me write the lyrics. When I think about it, I didn't do a whole lot on this song!! :) In any case, I love this original version (from Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove). A couple things -- no one has ever gotten all these lyrics right:
"Timing is everything
that much I know
Sometimes I'm faster
and sometimes I'm slow
I exceed expectations
but sometimes I'm told
To go to the end of the line
But when I don't meet
what's expected of me
they look at their clocks
and they say "this can't be"
Watching it pass
without reason or rhyme
I find myself drifting in time"
Also...Why did they occasionally say "Potato to the throat" instead of "razor to the throat"? -- I don't know how that originated. I asked Trey, he doesn't remember exactly but says "a razor is so violent" -- so that's the official answer to that mystery.
As I write this I'm reminded that we constructed the intro to Walls of the Cave in a very similar fashion -- Trey on piano with me engineering. I see the vultures moving in!
Enjoy. (ps -- Trey's hiccup at 51 seconds!)