The Bargain Basement
Thought you complain about it you like the open road
You love the pain about it all those goodbyes again
All those forgotten faces from the bargain basement
Diamonds everyone I follow them away oh yeah
If ever love is made to measure I'd take you by the lake
A tune to sing your pleasure played by a minstrel boy
But something satisfies me from the bargain basement
Sit with me a while before I fly away oh yeah
The most that I can offer is less than you can take
Go and find another from down the highway
I'll sit and count my jewels from the bargain basement
This band of fools carries me away oh yeah
| RG thoughts: | The oldest song on the album, this was written in 1979, when I first came to America to stay for a while, not knowing that I would end up living here. It has existed as a neglected relic all these years, but it wasn't forgotten, it was always there in my mind waiting for the right singer. My daughter Gillian, after graduating from NYU in 1998, spent some time travelling the world. She stayed in Dahab, Egypt for almost a year, working as a divemaster. One day on the phone she informed me that she'd joined a band. When she was tweve or thirteen I had recorded a couple of songs with her in my home studio, but I had no idea of the potential of her voice until hearing her sing at a gig in Dahab in 1999, when Les, my wife, and I were there visiting with my step-son Paul. On her return home I asked her to try singing 'The Bargain Basement' and the song sprang to life. |