9. It All Just Slips Away
(McGowan)

One of my drumbeat experiments. A song about death. (It's being so cheerful that keeps me going.) This one struck me as being kind of Arabic. I didn't have an oud but my guitar sufficed for the solo runs. Near the end I sampled a scary Abdelkadir Zefzaf from the Dissedenten 'Live At The Pyramids' album. --Davy


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It's a series of ordeals
Some on tracks, some with wheels
It's the Titanic crew
Playing some ragtime just for you
But it all just slips away

It's a fork in the road
When you've no fixed abode
It's the time for the crime
When you ain't got a dime
But it all just slips away