Hear that Fender echo across the room
Feel that guitar grind as the drums go boom
The band is getting so hot that the whole room is steaming
The whole city can get its power from the heat
Rock into the night from the earth to the moon
I get lost, in the music
I get lost, in the music
There’s another whole world between the power chords
And the beat
Once there was a nice Jewish girl in this town
Put a band together and really got around
She was on the way to becoming this country’s Great Pretender
To the throne of the new wave of rock’n’roll
But her star went supernova and then came crashing down
She got lost, in the music
She got lost, in the music
She couldn’t find her way out of the mess she made
Now she’s a lost soul
Young kid turns on the radio late at night
Hours after his mama turned out the light
Teacher’s gonna get mad ‘cause he didn’t do his homework
Mama’s gonna ground him ‘cause he didn’t do his chores
But when the music plays he feels all right
He’s lost, in the music
He’s lost, in the music
He finally found his route to escape
Away from his everyday bores
©2023 The Hesh Inc.
I wrote this in the thick of my army service in 1986 or so, when I was thinking back to my earlier club gigging days from before I got drafted. The first two verses are scenes from those days. The first verse is a scene from the first REALITY SHOCK era ... before I discovered the Hammond organ, my first love in the world of electrified keyboard instruments was the Fender Rhodes piano, especially when run through a flanger effect. "My sound" with the first REALITY SHOCK band was based on that, and we played some kickass gigs with it. The second verse is about a certain singer who was popular on the Jerusalem scene ... but of course, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is strictly coincidental ;) The third verse goes back even further, to my days as a kid growing up in Long Beach, NY, when I would tune in to the music after I had ostensibly gone to bed. Musically, this is a cross between Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp," Lou Reed's "Vicious," and After the Fire's version of "Der Kommissar." Never recorded or performed.