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Song “Mr. Radio Man”

The tenth and final song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Mr. Radio Man”.  It was written when I was about 19 years old.  Have you ever noticed that if you listen to a classic rock station for more than an hour your chances of not hearing Steve Miller are pretty nil.  He’s everywhere on the radio!  He’s Mr. Radio Man!

Here’s the scene that goes with the first part of the song… Imagine a 1970’s suburban house with the garage door open.  Complete with oil stains on the cement floor and old camping gear hanging from the ceiling.  A middle aged man (probably a Vietnam vet) tinkers about the garage fixing something.  And a transistor radio sits on his work bench.  The volume is low and it sounds like an AM station is playing “Fly Like an Eagle”.

The second part of the song is me waking up from this daydream.

Note: If you read each line from the right to the left it makes more sense.

Garage the in music his plays he
There happens everything ’cause
Garage the in
Mr. Radio Man

Flowers pick to likes he
Clowns you all at laughs he
At stare don’t
Mr. Radio Man

Child a like dances he
Things simple in believing
Man simple a
Mr. Radio Man

She pressed stop listening to the birds outside
Then realized she was focusing on the cars going by

She thinks and all she wants is not to

Song “Just Passing Through”

The ninth song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Just Passing Through”.  Casey has a wonderful ability to create the soundscape effect.  When I hear this song it makes me wish I was driving and old van out on the open California desert highway, with the windows rolled down and it being over 100 degrees.  To some it may seem like misery, but to me there’s freedom in that.

All he wanted to be
Climbing up a tree to see when
All he had to do was fall
In Love

They will go gray
Asking what they said today but
You and me will be
In Love

Freedom mother me
Freedom smother me

And if all is lost on my search for truth
Then so be it ’cause I’ll be
In Love

Because I want nothing else but God itself
All of this and living
In Love

Freedom’s no luxury
Freedom’s necessity
Can’t you see?

Song “Stone”

The eighth song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Stone”.  Casey wrote the music and the lyrics which go like this…

Stone has no name
Remaining doesn’t stay the same
Stone won’t complain
You can’t move them and remain the same

If you like I’ll drive a spike
The kind that you used to like
If you like the day is night
The taste is bitter like delight

Stone can start the day
Never moving what a price to pay
Stone is not alone
Every wise dog is looking for a throne

Don’t tell me about no guru
Don’t talk about no God at all
Don’t give me no solutions
Don’t tell me about a way to be
Just change the subject talk about me

Song “La Noche”

The seventh song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “La Noche”.  One of our only songs that uses a drum machine…. a nice simple groove with an open guitar sound.  Here are the lyrics…

I see my ma crying
I see a child laughing
I see the sky in all it’s glory

I see you and me lost in a world of reality
Lost in a world of reality
Lost in a world of reality

En la noche esta una lamara

I was going to scrap this poem after I wrote it because of the way it starts… “I see”.  So many poems start with “I see”, and all kinds of different variations of “I see”.  But the words fit the music so I kept it.  I also realized that “reality” seems to have so much more love in it than what I’d previously thought.   I was always trying to escape it rather than go into it and accept it.  It’s like going into the night at first but there’s always a lamp to light the way, and it seems as though it gets brighter the deeper we go.

Song “Velosity”

The sixth song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Velosity”.  Yup it’s spelled wrong on purpose.  Don’t know why we did that but we did.  Here are the lyrics…

Pray for velocity, pray for velocity
I don’t want anything from you, I’m digging up my own
Wish you could be here now, digging up your own
No one can see you now, rate you on how deep you go
I don’t want anything from you, I’m digging up my own
And I pray for velocity, pray for velocity

In this song, Casey again wrote the beautiful soundscape groove.  He also plays the hypnotic lead in the middle of the song and at the end.  I wrote the simple, concise lyrics.  It’s about “digging in the dirt” as Peter Gabriel would say.  The dirt being a traumatizing past.  Also the lyrics reflect the old saying “If you’re busy minding my business, you ain’t minding your own”.  When I was digging up my own dirt and working through my own stuff, I learned to mind my own business and not to judge others (a lesson that goes on and on).  It’s also how I wish more people would dig up their own dirt and start minding their own business.

Song “Your Face is Your Butt”

This is the fifth song on the CD “God Has A Cadillac Too”.  I guess the title says it all for this one!  Well not really… it’s more about how people can’t sit still with themselves.  It’s harder than you think… to just sit down in a room for 20 minutes and just do nothing…. no meditating, no focusing on anything, just sitting.  The mind tends to wander and wander, thinking and thinking, daydreaming and daydreaming.  It’s extremely simple but harder than you think to sit and let yourself be.  Just be.

Here are the lyrics

With the lights down low
Sarah Vaughan on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

With the lights down low
Dark Side on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

With the lights down low
Santana on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

With the lights down low
Bob Marley on the radio
Little did you know
In the stillness your face will be revealed

There’s a lot of crap to wade through before the peace comes.

Song “Crown Ballet”

The fourth song on “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Crown Ballet”…

Sing backwards crown ballet
The back fall off the steep made

Me cry an ocean
Saltwater satisfaction hmm hmm

Subconsciousness of a Pepsi that just sat there

I wrote this song when I was about 17 years old.  There was a tremendous amount of emotional pain at the time, unaware of my behavior because I kept slipping in and out of reality.  Peers called me crazy and I guess I was.

Song “Job Rob”

The third song off of “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Job Rob”… and the lyrics go like this…

That’s the job Rob baby
That’s the job Rob baby
That’s the job Rob baby

Go ask God
Go do your job
It’s not your fault
Don’t feel guilty

That’s the job Rob baby

Go ask God
Remember your God
It’s gonna be hard
It’ll set you free

That’s the job Rob baby

Go ask God
Remember your God
The more you sleep
The deeper it digs

That’s the job Rob baby

Well… there is a story to this song, but it’s nothing that I want to write here publicly.  If you really want to know you’ll have to ask!

Casey wrote the groove and I just added the lyrics and melody.

Song “Reading Into Stuff”

The second song off “God Has a Cadillac Too” is “Reading Into Stuff”.  Here are the lyrics…

I’m at a stand still looking at my dark side
Now I’ll die my foundation is with the divine

(Chorus)
Was there something that your little girl wanted inside?
Was there something that your little boy needed inside?
Was there something that you didn’t get when you were a child?
Was there somewhere that you wanted to go before you died?
Die die die…

You say it’s alright then you turn into blasphamy
You say you’re my friend then you don’t even ask for me

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
Running through fields of indigo green
Down to the bottomless ocean
Into the trees then down on your knees
The desert calls for devotion

Running through fields of indigo green
Down to the bottomless ocean
Into the trees then down on your knees
Devotion

(Verse)
The knife cuts through the fog like a piece of cheesecake
All the feelings that I had or tried to shake
All the ones that built up in my tremendous lake
I can’t deal with it now I’m busy being fake

(Chorus)

Casey came up with the chord progression and the rhythm to this track.  I wrote the lyrics.   I’ll try to explain them as best I can.

When I first started going to deep feeling therapy I found it hard to keep my old friends.  We just couldn’t relate any longer.  The lyrics are about facing my demons (trauma, old neurotic patterns, etc.) and realizing that my friends, relatives, and just plain old acquaintances would not go there.  When I would start to talk about the truth I was discovering, their eyes would kind of glaze over, or they’d misinterpret what I was trying to say.  People just don’t want to be faced with their neurosis, no matter how insignificant.  The only thing I was doing to face them with it was only telling them of my own experience… nothing more.  Even this seemed to be too much.

This track was released without the bridge (which was written only recently).  If you’d like to hear the song with the bridge please email maheekat @ maheekatmusic.com and we’ll send you a copy.