UP: SAD PROFESSOR

  I'm having a strange experience with this album. The more I dive into the chords and lyrics, the more respect I have for the songwriters these three musicians have become. They are certainly in shaky re-inventive ground, but their craft is still there behind the electronic flourishes. I've always enjoyed this song, but like the apologist it's a character I can't really relate to. Sort of a love song for George in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' It's a musty song, filled with a stodgy old character. Now that I've known some sad professors ... yikes, it's pretty much spot on. 'Late afternoon, the house is hot' is one of my favorite lines in the Michael-verse. How about, 'A lazy eye metaphor on the rocks.' Great examples of how he can evoke so many feelings in a short stab of words. There is something he's yelling at the end of the song that sounds like 'feel free' but it's so distant I'm just gonna let it mellow there for eternity.



SAD PROFESSOR

If we're talking about love
Then I have to tell you
Dear readers, I'm not sure where I'm headed
I've gotten lost before
I've woke up stone drunk face down in the floor

Late afternoon the house is hot
I started I jumped up
Everyone hates a bore
Everybody hates a drunk

This may be a lit invention
Professors muddled in their intent
To try to rope in followers
To float their malcontent
As for this reader I'm already spent

Late afternoon the house is hot
I started I jumped up
Everyone hates a sad professor
I hate where I wound up

Dear readers, my apologies
I'm drifting in and out of sleep
Long silence presents the tragedies of love

Note the age, get afraid, the surface hazy with attendant thoughts

A lazy eye metaphor on the rocks

Late afternoon the house is hot
I started I jumped up

Everyone hates a bore

Everybody hates a drunk
Everyone hates a sad professor

I hate where I wound up

I hate where I wound up

   Tune those guitars down! As you can see in the clip posted above, Mike is on guitar for this one and he's dropped that tuning. Which makes this an awesome song to play. The ingenuity of these musicians is first rate and I can't help but wonder what this album is with Bill on board. It's taking pieces from their entire catalog and mixing it up for a new sound. This song has an AFTP vibe with the lyrical personalization of NAIHF.

SAD PROFESSOR

Verse (Dropped D)

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A |-0---4---5---0---4---7---|

F#|-0---3---5---0---3---7---|

D |-0---0---5---0---0---7---|

A |-0---0---0---0---0---0---|

D |-0---0---0---0---0---0---|

Bridge to Chorus

d |-5---7---3---|

A |-5---7---3---|

F#|-5---7---3---|

D |-5---7---3---|

A |-0---0---0---|

D |-0---0---0---|

Chorus

d |----------------0---|

A |----------------0---|

F#|-5>7---5-5------3---|

D |-5>7---5-5-4-5h-4---|

A |-0-0---0-0-0-0--5---|

D |-0-0---0-0-0-0--0---|