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Studio CD: Just A Spark - Episode 12
Just A Spark - Episode 12

Lyrics

[Hi everybody
Jonathan Richman here
Out in the sun
Here in Northern California
Where I've been real happy with what we've done
Over the last several months
With
Just a Spark, on journey from the dark

I'm recording what's going to be for the July issue
Which will be the last one for a while
Cause we're making a record
And we're going to be thinking about that
We're gonna have the same crew that we used on the album SA
With Jerry Harrison, and Nicole ??? and my drummer Tommy
And if we can get hold of the fabulous guitar player, Eric ???
One again we might, we'll see, but anyway
And so I'll be thinking about that

And then we're going on the road again
In October it looks like
It looks like it's going to happen
Throughout the midwest
Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee
And a lot of those dates will be with the wonderful Bonny Prince Billy
Who we worked with last year
Right before the last shows we played right before everything shut down
We were with Bonny Prince Billy and Emmet Kelley on guitar
And we're gonna have that happen again
So that will take up all my thoughts
And we'll be travelling
And so

This has been cool
Before I leave here
For a while
I want to reflect on something with you
I can't stand waste
On things like that
Sometimes, I'm always saving boxes
Saving things
Just cause I hate to waste them
Clothes, I hate to waste those
I'm always giving away
Things like that
And, anyway
Now's an interesting time for recycling stuff
Cause I just found out that the book industry
Is having a difficult time of it right now
Because some big electronic delivery firms are using a lot of the cardboard in this world
Well that sounds like a tragedy
So now in bookstores, now they'll just have three or four copies of a new book
But they won't be able to order twenty back up copies
Because of this cardboard shortage
Well to folks listening to a show like this
There might be someone out there
People out there in different things like
Cloth, bamboo, hemp, and kenaf
This might be the time for all those things
Like people who make things out of recycled cotton
This might be the time
To get together with the book industry
Talk to big publishers
And stuff
This might be the time when
People will be interested
Like for example, we're using kenaf paper
Sort of like a bamboo product
A plant
To print all the stuff on the mailing lists
That we used to have
That we still I think have
You know for tours
Things come in the mail
Postcards
You know like cardboard postcards
With like the tour schedules
We used to do with kenaf paper
But then that wasn't happening because of pricing
And this and that
Maybe it's time for that again
Maybe this
Maybe all kinds of interesting doors will open
As other doors close
So people in the book industry
Don't despair
Maybe all kinds of cool stuff are about to happen

And for this last episode
I'd figured we'd sing a little Italian, and maybe do some French stuff
I talk about the poet Pasolini
Who I love
You know like the guy
Who lived from about 1920 to about 1975
And died in Rome in 75]

[[Something in Italian]]

[The party's over folks]

[[Something in Italian]]

[In a Rome that's deaf to any innocent expectation]

[[Something in Italian]]

[Yeah, holiday's over, the party's over]

[[Something in Italian]]

[Just like trash in the wind]

[[Something in Italian]]

[A little Pasolini for you]

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