WALK THRU WALLS
Detroit 1984
It was thirty years ago today
Mr. Orwell taught our band to play
With prophecies in most every song
And they didn't turn out very far from wrong
Now digitized straight from the vaults
The tapes that almost disappeared...
80s New Wave, Detroit's WALK THRU WALLS
Patrick Grant - synthesizer & vocals
Eric Iverson - guitar & vocals
Chris Garrison - bass & vocals
John Figley - drums & vocals
Produced by Patrick Grant & Eric Iverson
Recorded in Detroit 1983/4, edited & remastered NYC 2014
1. FEAR OF MACHINES - (2:40)
Words & Music by Patrick Grant (c) 1983
MP3 - http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/FOM.mp3
Performed by WALK THRU WALLS
Patrick Grant - lead vocals & synthesizer
Eric Iverson - guitar & vocals
Chris Garrison - bass & vocals
John Figley - drums & vocals
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These insects: men
Have reached a stage
They've come of age
They're asking:
"Oh, what are gonna do now?
Oh, what are we gonna do now?"
Fear of Machines (Machines)
Fear of Machines (Machines)
Fear of Machines (Machines)
Sex Technology
Count off robots:
One-two-three!
Servitude
will set you free
We made the bomb
And we made you
We wear the boots
Stop asking:
"Oh, what are gonna do now?
Oh, what are we gonna do now?"
Fear of Machines (Machines)
Fear of Machines (Machines)
Fear of Machines (Machines)
New Biology
Count off robots:
Four-Five-Six!
Kill the dogs that
Won't learn tricks
"Hook him up to the Thought Converter!"
WE LOVE MACHINES (MACHINES)
WE LOVE MACHINES (MACHINES)
WE LOVE MACHINES (MACHINES)
Produced by Patrick Grant & Eric Iverson
Recorded in Detroit 1983/4, edited & remastered NYC 2014
2. COMPUTE THE FUTURE - (3:29)
Words & Music by Eric Iverson (c) 1982
MP3 - http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/CTF.mp3
Performed by WALK THRU WALLS
Eric Iverson - lead vocals & guitar
Patrick Grant - synthesizer & vocals
Chris Garrison - bass
John Figley - drums
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COMPUTE THE FUTURE
To find out what is there
I am the king of this man-made
Castle in the air
Last year's loser financially
Is going out the door
This year's mover in industry
Is who you see before
We are moving into the future
From the present and the past
Bring yourself into the future
From the present then go back
We are moving into the future
Correct the future, redeem the past
Bring yourself into the future
From the present then go back again
Fute the future
Abbreviate the past
Beware of pirates
They'll tie you to the mast
I know where you're going to
Because I sent you there
I know where she's going now
I know what she's wearing now
I know what she's doing now
We are moving into the future
A Second Coming, a second past,
Bring yourself into the future
Through the present and go back
We are cleaning furniture
Mop with Future® - "Shine, no wax"℠
Beam us up into the future
From the present then go back again
Produced by Patrick Grant & Eric Iverson
Recorded in Detroit 1983/4, edited & remastered NYC 2014
3. CAUGHT BETWEEN TOMORROW AND YESTERDAY - (4:30)
Words & Music by Patrick Grant (1983)
MP3 - http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/CBTY.mp3
Performed by WALK THRU WALLS
Patrick Grant - lead vocals & synthesizer
Eric Iverson - guitar & vocals
Chris Garrison - bass & vocals
John Figley - drums & vocals
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Neon lights shining so bright
Illuminate the darkness of my night
Shadows of red (shadows of red)
Dance to mock the day to come instead
Chronic insomnia, hopeless for sure
Hope that someone finds a cure
One, two, three, four,
Five in the morning I'm still wake
Lying here thinking for thinking's sake
Trying to figure why we always stay
Caught between tomorrow and yesterday
Say! Hey! Say!
Think of the past while the memories last
How I've changed and evils I've surpassed
Looking ahead (looking ahead)
Will I be the man that lies in bed?
Always unknowing but that's half the fun
Wait for the daylight to come
One, two, three, four,
Five in the morning I'm still wake
Lying here thinking for thinking's sake
Trying to figure why we always stay
Caught between tomorrow and yesterday
Say! Hey! Say! Hey!
Sometimes I don't know what to do
If what I feel isn't true
But when these feelings get too deep
I find it's not so hard to sleep
HEY!
Produced by Patrick Grant & Eric Iverson
Recorded in Detroit 1983/4, edited & remastered NYC 2014
4. BEACH BALL - (3:29)
Words & Music by by Eric Iverson (1981)
MP3 - http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/BB.mp3
Performed by WALK THRU WALLS
Eric Iverson - lead vocals & guitar
Patrick Grant - synthesizer & vocals
Chris Garrison - bass & vocals
John Figley - drums
* * * * * * * * * * *
Playing volleyball down on the beach
He threw the ball, went way out of reach
He kicked sand back, he didn't kick back
It's gonna be the insult made a man outta Mac
He's gonna put him in his place
"Listen here, Mister, I'd smash your face
Only you'd might dry up and blow away"
"That Big Bully, I'll get even some day!"
Beach Ball - I'm so colorful
Beach Ball - Got personality
Beach Ball - I'm a plastic ball
Beach Ball - Play with me
A nudist colony's the place to be
With fences all around no one can see
But up above that volleyball net
"Up in the air I'll have the best view yet!"
Pull out my nozzle, give me a blow
When I get big and round I'm ready to go
I might blow away but I won't dry up
And we'll have a ball when you blow me up
Beach Ball - I watch over you
Beach Ball - It's all the same
Beach Ball - An innocent instrument
Beach Ball - It's fun and games
Beach Ball - I'm so colorful
Beach Ball - Got personality
Beach Ball - Meaty beaty big and bouncy
Beach Ball - Play with me
Produced by Patrick Grant & Eric Iverson
Recorded in Detroit 1983/4, edited & remastered NYC 2014
5. IT FEELS GREAT! - (3:31)
Words & Music by Patrick Grant (1982)
MP3 - http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/IFG.mp3
Performed by WALK THRU WALLS
Patrick Grant - lead vocals & synthesizer
Eric Iverson - guitar & vocals
Chris Garrison - bass & vocals
John Figley - drums & vocals
Background vocals: Heidi Meissner, Theresa Morabito, & Alan Oldham
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Being pulled to an adult world
Where girls hate men and men are girls
I don't know what could be worse but I'll know
By the time that I turn eighteen
When it's not mean to be mean to the mean
A cloud of darkness starts to fall
It's time to answer nature's call
Why not grow up and see how childish they all are?
My cloud of decadence falls right on time
If the media wants to keep 'em that way - fine!
I feel that rotting
I feel that rotting
I feel that rotting and it feels great
(it feels great, it feels great, it feels great)
It Feels Great! (4x)
M-u-t-a-n-t-s (mutants)
Another word to frighten us
You'll never know if you keep standing right in place
It only means that you are that that's changed
Who is who who is to say who is deranged?
I feel that rotting
I feel that rotting
I feel that rotting and it feels great
(it feels great, it feels great, it feels great)
It Feels Great! (4x)
I feel that rotting
I feel that rotting
I feel that rotting and it feels great
(it feels great, it feels great, it feels great)
It Feels Great! (4x)
IT FEELS GREAT!
Produced by Patrick Grant & Eric Iverson
Recorded in Detroit 1983/4, edited & remastered NYC 2014
6. HAPPY ENDINGS - (4:57)
Words & Music by Patrick Grant (c) 1983
MP3 - http://www.peppergreenmedia.com/HE.mp3
Performed by WALK THRU WALLS
Patrick Grant - lead vocals & synthesizer
Eric Iverson - guitar & vocals
Chris Garrison - bass
John Figley - drums
* * * * * * * * * * *
In the vast continuum
Of every thing that man has done
Through scores of wars and passion plays
The births and deaths of greater days
We're waiting here yet
to those who inflect
the cause and effect
of the future
And while we're waiting on that brink
did anybody stop to think:
How temporary things can be
without concern for history?
Well, if time's to be spent
in a world without end
it's not our intent
to stagnate
Happy Endings aren't real
It all depends on where you feel
You want to end
You want to end
On where you want to end
The story…
In a world of symmetry
what's good for you is bad for me
And as the present turns to past
we find the future is doomed to last
Until we learn
to wait our turn
and not to spurn
the moment
Happy Endings aren't real
It all depends on where you feel
You want to end
You want to end
On where you want to end
The story…
Produced by Patrick Grant & Eric Iverson
Recorded in Detroit 1983/4, edited & remastered NYC 2014