This is the final version of a lyric I wrote in Mid 2007. I sent it over to Brian at the end of that year and its gone thru many revisions since including a great acoustic electric version (posted here) and finally this rocked up version
Brian has cut it on his Cd Hard Light of which you can hear samples, some of which were recorded at Neil Finns studio in Auckland, at http://www.brianbaker.com.au
Interesting reading about his musical background is also on that site.
Tainted Alibi © Baker /Westwood
A shallow Smile She casts no shadow
Is it a trick of the light?
Or do I see her hesitate and break her stride
When I call she cannot speak
Is there someplace she’d rather be ?
Its hard to play the second string
Give it all and not gain a thing
Tainted alibi is there something she has a reason to hide
Tainted alibi I never know if she means hello or goodbye
And there’s a certain kind of distance between her and the truth
and the words she uses taste like some tainted alibi
She does this little one act show
where the characters come and go
no flowers no applause silence as the curtains fall
the sharpest blade cannot cuts as deepthe way her words slice into me
serve me up baby I’m your lie give me up your
tainted alibi is there something she has a reason to hide
tainted alibi I never know if she means hello or goodbye
And there’s a certain kind of distance between her and the truth
and the words she uses taste
like some tainted alibi
Connect the dots its obvious
That nothing seems to fit
A bitter taste to sweet to swallow
and that's the end of it
Its tainted
Solo
there’s a certain kind of distance
between her and the truth and the words
she uses taste like some kind of tainted alibi
tainted alibi
tainted alibi
bye bye bye
She does this little one act show
where the characters come and go
no flowers no applause
just silence