“What’s the alternative to working perma-press?” The first, true TB/DR studio track, created as soundtrack for a TB Telecom video project, but recorded at the early (Terrace Beach, Ravenswood, Indianapolis) Hit City. TB on drums, acoustic/electric guitars, vox (is there a bass in there?). Written by Tim Brickley and David Rheins. Recorded by Tim Brickley and Dave Langfitt. Produced by Tim Brickley.
Lyrics
NO ESCAPE
(Timothy Brickley & David Rheins)
By the end of your life you have seen every evil.
Been involved in great struggles, grown weary of the trouble.
Some people get to anxious to seek fame and fortune,
taste all the free samples, for those there is darkness.
Darkness, Mother Darkness
and no escape.
Darkness, just darkness
and no escape.
What’s the alternative to working perma-press?
That is surely (that is surely) early death.
Ah, the good life,
to be your own boss.
Ah, the good life.
Own all your vices,
sell off your losses.
But in the end, it’s all a vicious cycle
from which there is no escape, only
Darkness, Mother Darkness
and no escape.
Darkness, just darkness
and no escape.
But you try anyway.
Copyright 1979, Timothy Brickley & David Rheins.
