| Buy My Big Package: 26 songs for $20 bit.ly Buy this song on iTunes: tinyurl.com or Bandcamp (in any digital format you like): jackconte.bandcamp.com or Order the CD on Amazon: tinyurl.com Orchestration Book on Amazon: tinyurl.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: www.twitter.com "Long Long Time Ago" is aVideoSong, a new medium with 2 rules: 1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice). 2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds). Long Long Time Ago, by Jack Conte Lyrics: He lived down by the farmhouse where the stray cats sleep at night, just a deck of cards, two fold out chairs, and the ghost of his wife. And the devil lived in his doorway, kept out the love and hope. He lived a long, long, long time, a long time ago. He lost one yellow Sunday, when he reached into his throat and pulled out all the people that he had been and tried to choke. But together they overwhelmed him, and he couldn't help but explode. He lost a long, long, long time, a long time ago. Asked a man in town, and they said he's lawless. Said he was strange, and he was all alone. No place to go, he went up in smoke. Well he left in a hurry when the cops kicked in his door. He jumped out the second story, limped down the road and hijacked a car. He stuck his head out the broken window, and he howled like the devil's own. He left a long, long, long time, a long time ago. Asked a man in town, and they said he's lawless. Said he was strange, and he was ... |
