THE PLAYERS
The Leeg:
Michael F Gould — keyboards, vocals
Peter Harris — guitars
Jim McManus — bass, vocals
Mark Von Lehr — drums, vocals
THE COMMENTARY
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LYRICS
stay away
stay away, we've got nothing to say
please stay way away from me
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i'm rundown
weary
shaken from my dreams
it's sundown
sunday
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stay away
stay away, we've got nothing to say
please stay way away from me
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i'm broken
leery
shaken in my dreams
unspoken
hearsay
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stay away
stay away, we've got nothing to say
please stay way away from me
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it's a lie
and it's dangerous
lurking, patient, wrong
like a time bomb
is it true? it's a sorry scene
but I can see you
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stay away
stay away, we've got nothing to say
please stay way away from me
Behind
the Song
I wrote the first draft of this song as a slow dirge. It was very depressed. Then I decided...
...to record it, and when I did, I completely rewrote it, using the same lyric, but a completely different piece of music, kind of an ‘80s Thomas Dolby vibe. The meaning stands on its own.
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In the final recording I had the idea to put the chorus up front a cappella. The musical idea was to have this really awful message… please stay way away from me … and an indication of very bad behavior on the partner’s part, but to couch it all in beautiful consonant harmony, a sort of consonant dissonance.
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Thank you to the Leeg for working with me on this one.
