Potion


Taken from the RYKO release "Like Swimming"

Potion Cover - Like Swimming Cover

All songs written by Mark Sandman except "Kerouac"; words by Mark Sandman, music by Mark Sandman & Billy Conway, and published by Festival Music (Aust. & New Zealand)

The Compact Disc actually plays Kerouac as the third song and Eleven O'Clock as the second song. Probably some sort of manfacturing mistake.


1) Potion
Time: 3:53
Sandman
From the Album "Like Swimming" D31648
Produced by Mark Sandman and Paul Q.Kolderie
Mixed by Mark Sandman
Xtra Engineering: Jon Williams, Carl Plaster, Matthew Ellard
Mastered by Greg Calbi/Masterdisk

2) Kerouac
Time: 2:55
Sandman
From the Album "Kerouác: kicks joy darkness" (a spoken work tribute with music) D42717
Engineered and mixed by Mark Sandman at Hi-N-Dry, Cambridge, MA. USA

3) Eleven O'Clock (Hi-N-Dry Version)
Time: 3:31
Sandman
Produced by Mark Sandman at Hi-N-Dry

4) Virgin Bride
Time: 3:30
Sandman
Recorded at Fort Apache by Paul Q. Kolderie
Mixed at the Outpost by Mark Sandman

5) Anita
Time: 3:18
Sandman
Recorded at Fort Apache and mixed by Mark Sandman at The Outpost
Xtra Engineering: Jon Williams at Fort Apache and Jim Siegel at The Outpost
Special Guest: Russ Gershon - Tenor Sax


1) Potion
Time: 3:53
Sandman
Studio Version

Give me a potion to make me love you
Give me a potion to make me care
Give me a potion to make me love you
Make it a double make it a double
Below the ocean I make my bed down there
Below the ocean I got to live somewhere
Maybe the graveyard and maybe I don't care
Why can't love be blind
Instead it's just a blind man crying
Why can't love be why can't love be blind
Thanks for the potion to make me love you
Thanks for the potion to make me care
Your charms are working on me
Your charms are working hard
Your charms are working on me
Your charms are working hard
Thanks for the potion to make me love you
Make it a double make it a double


2) Kerouac
Time: 2:55
Sandman, Conway

Kerouac yea Kerouac
His words the words so many words just
All brothers of the same horn sisters the saxophone
Notes music words a melody a quote a figure eight a figure
If you listen close to the drummer
It's like a mirror and your invisible
Like your in a backseat
No handles on the doors just a beautiful driver up front
She knows where she's going
Kerouac the observation machine
Caressing the most passing of scenes with photographic love
Passionate photographic love
venerable as anyone knew
His memories pull shades up and down
Doors are not done telegrams arrive
Every morning something extra ???
Remembering everything like a snatch of melody
A drumbeat remembering mythologing
So fast all the time moving
The words the words are drumsticks pounding out drum beats
Like a monk like a monk melody
With mistakes yea mistakes and sudden inspirations
Edges corners explosions convections
All fast through a slow motion landscape
Yea fast through a slow motion landscape


3) Eleven O'Clock (Hi-N-Dry Version)
Time: 3:31
Sandman

Every night (x2)
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
Every night (x2)
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
Every night uh huh every night
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
Every night (x2)
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
I go out (x6)
I'm looking at my watch and it's almost time
Not quite yea it's 10:59
I say i'm looking at the clock
If the clock could talk yea
The clock says it's 10:59
It's not quite there (x2)
You know it every night about Eleven
Every night about Eleven
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
Oh Uh...
Every night (x2)
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
Every night (x2)
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
Oh
Every night about Eleven O'Clock
Eleven O'Clock


4) Virgin Bride
Time: 3:30
Sandman

It was just a couple of summers ago
Annie met Gary they moved to each other so in love
The future was their canvas and life was their paint
But Annie she wanted Gary to wait
To do it until their wedding day Gary said
Ok Annie that's allright I can wait but lets get married right away
Soon enough that wedding day rolled around
And it was a very very beautiful wedding you know the kind
After the weeding everybody went back to a big reception
At Annie's mother's house and it was a great party
There was a band and there was food
there was so much love in the air
And Annie grabbed a bottle of champaine
And she grabbed Gary by the hand and they snuck away from the party
They went downstairs down to the laundry room down in the basement
Down to the laundry room
Soon they were rolling around in the laundry
Down to the laundry room
Rolling around (x4)
Rolling around in the laundry
Down to the laundry room
Rolling around (x4)
And Gary hit his head on the dryer he hit it pretty hard
In fact Gary is dead oh Gary's dead oh
If she hadn't waited they they couldn't say
The Virgin Bride is a virgin widow today
If she hadn't waited they they couldn't say
The Virgin Bride is a virgin widow today


5) Anita
Time: 3:18
Sandman

Mumbo just for you hey come-on yea hey hey
Anita oh fit the music to your form hey hey
Listen listen oh yea oh yea listen to my heart cry out
Anita I need you to remember me
I need to leave you more then memories
I Mumbo just for you for you I Mumbo just for you ah oh
Hey oh hey hey woh
Take it Anita let it oh be my gift to you
Anita it's the best that I can do oh Anita
I Mumbo just for you (x2)
Mumbo just for you
Anita Anita listen to my heart cry out
Anita I fit the music to your form
Anita 'querida' Anita Anita
I need you to remember me to leave you more then memories
I need to immortalize you Anita


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