FEBRUARY 7

Kind of planned to take the weekend off, but not really.
Totally rewrote LAZY MAN’S LOAD, and I’m much happier with it now, and I reached out to some of the musicians I want to use on the recordings. With The Stools proper so busy trying to put together 30 odd songs for the live show, I’m not sure how much time they’ll all have for this project; plus there are various horns and woodwinds I’d like to use as well.

I was working on some of the new songs (15 of them) we’re introducing to the live set on February 11th, when I started fooling with this chord pattern. The new and improved LAZY MAN’S LOAD lyrics just seemed to follow:

LAZY MAN’S LOAD

IT CERTAINLY WASN’T MY INTENTION

FOR THINGS TO TURN OUT THIS WAY

MY NATURE CAN WORK AS BIRTH PREVENTION

I’M HALF AS BORING AS MODERN BALLET

THAT’S NOT TO SAY I DON’T DANCING

HELL, I USED TO TAP LIKE MARK MORSE CODE

BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW WHO YOU’RE ROMANCING

AND YOU’RE HOEING A LAZY MAN’S LOAD




I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU STAYED THROUGH INTERMISSION

EVEN THOUGH I’M REALLY JUST A ONE-ACT PLAY

AN APPREHENSIVE APPARITION

FADING LIKE A PASSIVE MATRIX DISPLAY

I DIDN’T THINK I’D HAVE A GHOST OF A CHANCE

OF SCARING UP YOUR SA NODE

I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW IN ADVANCE

THAT YOUR HOEING A LAZY MAN’S LOAD


PLEASE DON’T THINK I’M OVER-STATING

THE PROBLEMS WE ARE BOUND TO FACE

OVER TIME I’VE DEVELOPED AN AMOUR PLATING

TO DEAR JOHN’S IN THE POSSESSIVE CASE

I REALLY SHOULD, BUT I WON’T BOTHER

JUST LIKE THE NINE DIGIT ZIP CODE

WE ALL HAVE OUR SUNDRIES WE’D PREFER

BUT YOU’RE HOEING A LAZY MAN’S LOAD

Written by Lance Norris @2010 Dutchco Music (BMI)

A definite improvement over what I had and I still have about three weeks to tighten them up, but more importantly; salads and pizza for lunch today.


Also, my old friend Sally Sisson said she would lend her flute to the project, which is really cool because she doesn’t know this, but over 30 years ago I wrote a song for her to play on with my band at the time, loosely based on Henry Mancini’s FLUTERS’ BALL, but never got around to asking her to do it. There are a couple of songs in this batch that lend themselves to the flute, so this will be some kind of nice closure for me… Or maybe I’ve just been stalking Sally for 30 years and I’ll end up in jail. But hey, that’s art.