The Truth Is

This is probably the most produced piece in my back catalog and it has an interesting history. Originally I wrote the bass & drums and made a stab at some lyrics, probably 1987 or thereabouts. And there it languished.

I was in Austin, TX at the time and at the Zilker Park Xmas tree every 8th of December there was a "John Lennon Memorial Sing-Along" which lasted into the wee hours. One year an absolutely amazing musician showed up and I say that person was amazing as he knew and could play every single Beatles song and I do mean every single one. He needed a ride home that night, I offered, and that's how I came to meet Roland St Germain. Later among other accomplishments he became the core of the "new music" version of the Grandmothers but back then that was well in the future. (& now it's 'years ago' ...)

Anyway, sometime later he was over and I played this for him and he took a copy and overdubbed all the additional material you here then brought me the results - I was (and still am) astonished. He used an analog four-track, a Fender Strat & a Casio CZ-101, nothing more. Except, of course, his amazing talents for arranging & production. Thanks again, sir, I will be forever grateful.

Lyric snippets -
"I don't need your religion
To tell me where I'll go when I die.
You've told me lots of things before, too
And all of them were lies."
[chorus]
"You know that most of of the wars in this world
Were started by religion.
How can we depend on you now
To tell us what the truth is (or should be)..."


The Truth Is