Nobody, Nobody Knows

A song from the CD "There For The Taking". Available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/johntabacco5

Words and Music © 2014 by John Tabacco
Published by It Iz What It Iz Music (SESAC)

The chorus melody of this tune stems back to the early 90's and was eventually incorporated into a Gearhead Freaks song called "Ya Gotta Re-Type It". You can hear this melody played on the trumpet at the end of that tune. I always liked the idea but Gian DiMauro and I never bothered to develop it. Two decades later the musical seeds have grown into a full fledged song. But I kind of saw that happening in the future so...

NOBODY, NOBODY KNOWS

Rivers - taxi cabs for flowing life forms and emulsions
Rivers - taxi cabs for flowing garbage to the oceans
The seagull and all it’s mates
They come to gather by the dumpster crates
If a pizza box shows up, great
They’ll have more plastic cheese to munch on
But is this something they should count on?

Well, Nobody, nobody knows
What the future has in store tomorrow
Nobody, nobody knows
Would you care to speculate?
Nobody, nobody knows
But fate

Sunshine – reveals the floating "pesticidal pollen"
I’ve been coughin’
Sunshine - reveals the radiated skin cells on a dolphin
While a satellite watches you
We’re nothing more than human cellular phones
The mystery of what we do no longer hidden like a dog bone
Could be your name is on the next drone

Well, Nobody, nobody knows
What the future has in store tomorrow
Nobody, nobody knows would you care to flip a dime?
Nobody, nobody knows what the future has in store tomorrow
Nobody, nobody knows
Not I

Suspended belief - like the childhood stories of yesterday
No kind of relief sittin shiva when love ones pass away
The man behind the curtain was gone
The day his guessing games were sold to gypsy queens
The gypsy queens….

Look into my crystal balls.
YOU FOOLS!

Wave goodbye to the honey bee
Welcome the Fukushima folly parade
A world of absurdities to feed creations endless wedding
I wonder where the whole thing’s heading…
Well, Nobody, nobody knows
What the future has in store tomorrow
Nobody, nobody knows would you care to speculate?
Nobody, nobody knows what the future has in store tomorrow
Nobody, nobody knows
But fate

FATE!

Nobody, nobody knows
Nobody, nobody knows
Nobody, nobody knows
Nobody, nobody knows
Nobody, nobody knows
Nobody, nobody knows
Nobody, nobody knows

JT : Vocals, Acousitc guitar, Programming
Patricia Amendolia : Harmonies
Barry Hartglass : Bass
Vinnie Zummo : All electric guitars

Recorded + Mixed by JT at Suburban Hermit Studios II, Stony Brook, NY
Miniatures : "The Time Machine" and "The Seance" by Catherine Tabacco