Friday, February 3, 2023

Prove It

More sad news for the guitar players of the world: Tom Verlaine is gone. He passed away on Saturday in Manhattan after a short illness.

Here's another brilliant track from Television's debut album, Marquee Moon (1977).

Tom Verlaine : guitar and vocal
Richard Lloyd : guitar
Fred Smith : bass
Billy Ficca : drums


Left to right: Fred, Tom, Richard, Billy.
The docks
The clocks
A whisper woke him up
The smell of water
Would resume
The cave
The waves
Of light the unreal night
That flat curving
Of a room

Prove it, just the facts, the confidential
This case, this case, this case that I
I've been workin' on so long

First you creep
Then you leap
Up about a hundred feet
Yet you're in so deep
You could write the Book.
Chirpchirp
The birds
They're giving you the words
The world is just a feeling, you undertook

Prove it, just the facts, the confidential
This case, this case, this case that I
I've been workin' on so long, so long

Now the rose
How it slows
You in such colorless clothes
Fantastic! You lose your sense of humour
Project
Protect
It's warm and it's calm and it's perfect
It's too "too too"
To put a finger on

Prove it, just the facts, the confidential
This case, this case, this case that I
I've been workin' on so long, so long

This case is closed