I wrote the song ‘I'LL GO MY OWN WAY on my nightly ‘lockdown walks’ around NW5 this autumn.
This ‘excursion’ song has a ‘stream of consciousness’ lyric about these unaligned, and sometimes quite deranged, times.
Animation is by the director CHRIS GAVIN.
I recorded it at SNAP STUDIOS, London, this time playing all the instruments myself due to COVID-19 restrictions. Recorded by Marco Pasquariello at SNAP, mixed by Robbie Nelson.
It’s the last of four LTD EDITION vinyl 7” singles exclusive to ROUGH TRADE - each in the form of a letter.
- The first YOKO, OH is a love-letter - to my favourite Beatle - Yoko Ono.
- The second single FEATURETTE - another letter, to my teenage self.
- The third, BABY, I MISS THE INTERNET, is a letter of intent, to Donald Trump. - And I'LL GO MY OWN WAY is a ‘sick note’
lyrics
I'LL GO MY OWN WAY
(the ‘I Like You’ song)
I’ll go my own way
I’ll do what I say
I’ll say what I like
I’ll like what I play
I’ll look under stones
Find a world of my own
Sow a seed that isn’t sown
Gonna get myself a-goinn…’
Can’t - do - everything - alone
I’ll seek and I’ll find -
I’ll find a new love
I love what I do
I do what I (can)
And if you want to kick aroun’
Get your feet up off-fa the groun’
We’ll make our way back uptown
No one up there to put us down
Make us lose the love we found
Oh - make us lose the love we found…
We’ll never lose the - love - we - found…
Never lose the love - we - found
Let me tell you today -
Gonna be real OK
There ain’t a thing that you can say
We’ll take a ride in my coupé
Make a new song from the blues
Walk a mile in my shoes
Gonna take you on a cruise
Try it out you just can’t lose
That’s why I’m a gonna do-oo-oo-oo’s
Take a walk upon the lake
Better be good, for goodness sake
I cannot give if I do not take
Just trying to keep myself awake
No one left for me to forsake
All I need’s another break
I hit the dirt - but I’m still awake…
I sing the song of the rattlesnake
I sing the song of the rattlesnake
Sing the song of the ra-TT-lesnake…
Oh… - I sing the Song of the rattlesnake
“Oh, Yeah?” “Really…” “No!!”…
I like you- oo- oo-
I like you-
I like you-
I like you-
I like you-
I like you- oo- oo-
I like you- oo- oo-
I like you- oo- oooo-
I like you- oo- ooo-
I like you… (whisper)
Do you like me too??
Hmmm - I like you- oo- oo-
I like you- oo- oo-
I like you
I like you- oo- oo-
I like you- oo- oo-
Yeah - I like you- oo- oo-
I like you- - listen to hmmm…hmmm notes
I like you-
I like you- oo- oo-
Do you like me too?
Do you like me too-oo-oo-oo - oo-oo-oo-oo
C’mon, c’mon…
Do you like me too?? (oo-oo-oo). Hmmnn…
C’mon, c’mon, now…
Do you like me too?
I’ll go my own way
I’ll do what I say
I’ll say what I like
I’ll like what I play
I’ll look under stones -
Find a world of my own
Sow a seed that isn’t sown
Gonna make myself a-goin…’
Gonna get my-Self a-goin…’
Gonna get myself a-goin…’ (whisper - )
Who-oo-oo- yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oo…oo…
Who-oo-oo- yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…
I’m gonna get myself a-goin’
Tot Taylor is a left-handed singer-songwriter who also works in record-production and art curating. He was born in the
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