Downloads, Lyrics & Liner Notes
from "...digital retro..."

Songs:

1) Watching Rainbows - click here for a Real Audio sample or download an MP3
2) Mr. Destiny - download an MP3
3) Guthrie Palace - click here for a Real Audio sample or download an MP3
4) No Matter - download an MP3
5) Comes A Broken Heart - download an MP3
6) Soulmate Everyday - download an MP3
7) Love Is Gone - download an MP3
8) My Dolly - download an MP3
9) What I Want - download an MP3
10) Unfinished Business - download an MP3

Produced by Jeff Slate with Jon Spurney, Christopher Ruth and Alex Alexander.

Engineered by Jeff Slate, Scott Anthony, Jon Spurney and Christopher Ruth.
Additional engineering by Bob Stander and Julian Harris.

Recorded on 4 tracks at ...digital retro... studios (nyc).
Additional recording at Dessau Recording Studio (nyc),
SpurnSound (nyc), Treehouse Recording (nyc), World Studio (nyc),
Avalon (douglaston, ny) and Chris's home studio (new london, ct).

"My Dolly" from tracks originally produced by Simon Townshend.
Executive producer Pete Townshend in association with Kardana
Productions. Additional backing vocals and rhythm guitar by
Simon Townshend. Hammond organ by Josh Phillips-Gorse.

"Watching Rainbows" contains a sample of "Happy Together"
by The Jam. "Love Is Gone" contains a sample of "Dance To
The Music" by Sly & the Family Stone.

Mastered at World Studio (nyc) by Mark Dann.

Cover/sleeve design by Rich Martin.
All songs copyright 1998 Jeff Slate/GSP, Ltd.
Except "Soulmate Everyday" copyright Jeff Slate/GSP, Ltd.
and Christopher Ruth/Isaan Music and "My Dolly" copyright
Jeff Slate/GSP, Ltd. and Simon Townshend/Stir Music, Inc.
"No Matter" by Pete Ham, copyright 1970 Apple Publishing.
All rights reserved.


Watching Rainbows (Slate)
Sitting in the garden waiting for the Summer sun to take me away
Reflecting colors, my eyes can't believe the beauty of the day.

I'm watching rainbows and your love light takes me there
I'm watching rainbows waiting for a sign that everything's okay.

We laid so many times in paradise without a single care
Took it all for granted now I'd give everything I have to take me there.

Na na na...
Yeah, I'm watching rainbows waiting for a sign that everything's okay.

Now since you've gone, well I've gone on and I've gone on and on and on
Still nothing makes me feel like watching rainbows with you in the sun.


Mr. Destiny (Slate)

It's been ten years since he disappeared
And in that time you an I have made a world
And then he calls and he says that he is sorry
And he wants to see you and I don't know why I worry.

In lucid moments I don't feel the pain
But all this alcohol has made me reel
And though you plead with me and tell me that he means nothing
Nothing is hard to believe when I look in your eyes.

It's not the things you say or do
That keeps me here despising you
There's nothing to forgive or forget
'Cause my imagination rules the day.

And so I kill myself with fantasy
Believing I deserve all that's been done to me
Matchbooks and table napkins spread out to map my decadence
Numbers and notes in lipstick remind me of what I've done.


Guthrie Palace (Slate)

Guthrie palace takes me there.

Let me take you to a place you've never been
Where a winedark sea meets all the colors of the sky
Where life is everything
Where life is nothing
It's where I go when I'm alone.

Where to begin to tell you all that's gone before
All those I've loved and lost who've made me who I am
And how much do I say?
And what will scare you?
Do we go where I go when I'm alone?

Guthrie palace takes me there
Guthrie palace saves me every time.

Please take me to a secret place I've never been
Show me the colors of your world
Where life is everything
Where life is nothing
Where you go when you're alone.


No Matter (Ham)

Comes A Broken Heart (Slate)

Comes a broken heart
So far away from yesterday, now
All the things we said
Are long forgotten and left beside our bed.

Comes a broken heart
Torn in pieces that don't quite fit right
Memories I've had
Of things that never mattered to us then.

I don't know why I can't let go
But I keep on trying to break your hold
And I know that you've moved on
Though my head listens it comes a broken heart.

Comes a broken heart
While friends plead that I face the future
But you haunt me still
And I believe that you'll still be there.


Soulmate Everyday (Ruth/Slate)

When darkness comes I will be waiting there for you
And in the crush I will dream hazy dreams it's true.

If given a choice I will shape images of you with clouds
And given a voice I will honor your soul with songs that would make you proud.

But it's only a dream I want to keep it that way
And if it ends suddenly
I'll still be your soulmate everyday.

And if I get wings I'd be your guardian in the sky
And perhaps one day
You'll catch a glimpse of me in the corner of your eye.

And if I came back I'd make a deal and find you again
And if I can't
I'll never forget I won't give up.


Love Is Gone (Slate)

This will fade
At least that's what they say
But it doesn't change today
No apology will bring you back to me
Everything's changed, everything's changed.

I face the world all alone
All I had yesterday is gone.

Love is gone but I'll have to carry on
And face the day without you
Memories well they bring back all the pain
Love is gone
Love is gone.

All of those love pictures are neatly packed away
But it doesn't change today
Flowers and love letters won't make you change your mind
There's nothing left to say.

Love is gone but I'll have to carry on
And face the day without you
Memories won't bring you back to me
Love is gone
Love is gone.


My Dolly (Slate/Townshend)

She's a girl that is kind of something special
When I'm with her I feel great, hey, and that's all
And I know that she's mine all mine
And she'll be with me all the time
She'll never leave me and that's the way I like it
She never gets in the way
She doesn't have much to say
She's a good girl and so uncomplicated.

And I know that she's my dolly
I want her and she wants me
And I know that she's my dolly, now.

She's a girl that is best to keep a secret
In the closet she stays but hey she's easy
And when my baby comes out to play
She never asks for a break
She ain't shy and that's just the way it should be

And though she's hard to talk to
I don't really mind
She won't miss me when I'm gone
That's the way it is with her kind.

She's a heavenly nobody
But I want her and she wants me
And I know that she's my dolly, now.


What I Want (Slate)

You hold the key to the place that unlocks all mystery
And you are the one who will find all the good inside of me.

I was the one who went wrong and took pride in what I did
And I know that now I will pay and it will never be the same.

You've got what I want
You've got what I want
You've got what I want and it's no mystery
No, it's no mystery.

And it's all laid bare
Yeah, I've spelled it out to you
Yeah, you've got what I want
And now it's up to you.


Unfinished Business (Slate)

I see the roses that you left upon the table
I see the writing that you left upon the wall
The unwashed dishes and the untouched table setting
The full wine glasses the momentoes of the fall.

And it's so predictable
Some things so immeasurable.

The way the sheets are only tossled on one side now
The way there's too much time to think when I'm alone
I want to call you want to touch you want to hear you
But all that's left are the momentoes of the fall.

And it was inevitable
Some things so predictable.

Unfinished business, things unsaid before you left me
Unfinished business, unresolved and unsolved mystery
Unfinished business, things unsaid before you left me
Unfinished business and it's tearing me apart.

And I'm so miserable being without you
And what did I do to make you go?
Sleepless nights I spend tossing and turning
And inmy mind and in my heart Paris is burning.

I see the roses that you left upon the table
I see the writing that you left upon the wall
And that's the price I pay for trying to seduce you
The broken heart that I deserve for loving you.

I see the roses that you left upon the table
I see the writing that you left upon the wall.