The Schramms "One Hundred Questions" All songs by D.Schramm, Hot Stove Music, BMI except for Mary Come Lately which was written by George Usher and Dave Schramm, Great Noon Music, BMI / Hot Stove Music, BMI. 300 Answers (Schramm) A twist in the wind blew through me and cut the cord that bound me home. Cold as an old December cold as in air that ice had known. Then the moon fell sudden and accident'ly with shattered sight it shot the sea. And now I have a hundred questions you think the night might answer me? Andy - Leslie accordion JO - walco Oave - baritone guitar ------------------------------------------ Torn In Two (Schramm) When you change sides you will be alone and I won't mind seeing that you're gone. Except in the morning and evening til the night when I fall in my bed. I've been awake for far too long been awake and I am torn. Where life is fair all is as it seems. My hope lives there only as a dream. I walk through this world just waiting and hear a lullaby in every song. Been awake for far too long been awake and I am torn. Find me sleep mg so serenely. Pull the blanket tight around me and call the angels to my slumber (land) at least there life ain't so cruel at least there I'm not torn in two. Jon & Andy - backing cocels Jon - acoustic guitar, big Gretsch sound ------------------------------------- Deny You (Schramm) And when you walk through that broken door there'll be a cloud that'll wear my name and I won't look, I won't see I'll be silent willingly And in the midst of this friendly fog will be a book just a little less long and you won't be written yet never talked to, never met Forgive the lack of a sullen stare a curse or a look to kill there's no one left to say your name nothing ventured, nothing gained nothing but the sound of rain Will I deny you? The winter or the spring could I deny you anything? It gets a little bit darker just a little bit darker and a little bit sad sad so sad No one left to say your name nothing'll ever be the same nothing but the sound of rain Will I deny you? The winter or the spring could I deny you anything? Andy - mellotron, organ. sad vocal JD - crickets Dave - piano, quitars --------------------------------- I'll Believe (Schramm) What rumour's reached you now to take a hold and take you down room it looks like hell but it's home to me - I'll believe Darling don't be cross just wrap up what we've already lost and give it like a gift to loneliness - I'll believe And still it's all the same if lightnin were to strike again - I'll believe so dream of Joe or John while I go put the coffee on and you might wake up glad to see this world again - I'll believe lschramm) Richard Beckner spooky vocal Dave - piano. octave drop gaitar JC Smith - street Jon - backing vocal Simple Arithmetic (Schramm) Used to think I knew the sound a bomb would blast and rip the ground for each of us a star would fall life has never seemed so real. And there it stood exposed to air the light behind the sky laid bare look too close there's nothing there life has never seemed so real. What do you want from me? I've forgotten all my one plus two makes three While I'm fast asleep I'm dreaming I am dreaming of waking All night long my hands are shaking how long? Jon - backing vocal --------------------------------- Mary Come Lately (George Usher - Dave Schramm) Mary puts on evening clothes when her haunted uncle goes coastal for the night stumbling down a winding hill where the wind is keeping still waiting for an eye to close Mary come lately is frightened by morning Mary wanders to the street where the worried lovers meet and she's less than lost She hears in the mother tongue every shanty ever sung on the old stone bridge Mary come lately is frightened by morning Whispers of the only world she knows Mary's taking off her rags the uncle unpacks his bags lamplight burns below Syd Straw - backing vocal Jon backwards guitar solo Dave - frontwards guitar solo Ron - groovy shakers Don & Andy - backing vocals ------------------------------- She Says (Schramm) (she says) I'm no angel, I'm no saint this may be the news that saves you all your roses, they're so sweet though incomplete the love I gave you. (she says) Throw the roses in the sea Just like me they grow so fragile damage done by second hand it's proper and not supernatural. She says nothing can redeem her I say different my dear She sees nothing, sees her future faint I see a brighter day (she says) I'm no angel, I'm no saint turns her face away so I say You're my angel I have no saint better late than never called at all Jeb Loy Nichols - second vocal John Harborne - trombone Al - doghouse bass Andy - farfisa Jon - big Gretsch sound Dave - dobro, baritone guitar -------------------------------------- Three Trips to Heaven and Back (Schramm) First one came to me (I never wanted company) staring hollow-eyed, carrying a bible dissolution was tattooed on his perfect brow, said the mystery will confuse you even more (and more) Second followed me. writing down my history filling notebooks and rehearsing his denial his solution was pull it down, Just pull it down said the mystery will begin where began (began) Third one was the worst cause when I returned everything was as it should be but there's no siren singing here by the open door JD - shakers, spoodge Andy - piano. hammond organ, backing vocals Jon - Magnatone chorus bits and fills Ron - bongos ----------------------------------- Yesterday Falls Away (Schramm) Train your heart to walk with the wind and shadows pointing the way and call it an adventure. The hardest part - it's not the future that you see through your glass all you see is yesterday today. Say my name and I'll be your saint and sinner keep me in a yault locked up tight and lonely. It's not the same - it's not what you're thinkin. I remember it right. You want yesterday today - today. But yesterday falls away. my sister taught me how to play - we laughed a lot but she eventually went away so I forgot and all this time I've longed to see what It meant to me. who wants yesterday today - yesterday Andy - piano, hammond organ Jon - that Supro sound JD - bongo chino, bells, casio bits Dave - harmonium Jon & Andy - backing vocals -------------------------------------- I Know It's Mine (Schramm) There is a word that she tries on and no ordinary purpose underneath it lies And there is a word that I will hear with a bright and shiny surface to my untrained eye "always" sounds so sweet "forever" has that same beat And there is word that she tries on with a bright and shiny surface and I know it's mine. Richard Buckner - harmony vocal Jon - gut-string guitar solo ---------------------------------- Mailbox (Schramm) There's a letter sitting in my mailbox unopened and unread. It says, I know, says you're gonna go, I have fallen out of your favor. I might as well be dead. The things I've known I no longer know. And the view from here comes in loud and clearing now. There's a letter sitting in my mailbox unopened and unread. It says I know... And the view from here comes in loud and clearing now. And the dress she wore made of red and yellow... Jon - acoustic guitar