Showing Good Faith (Your Crotch, My Nose)

Upon hearing about my idea for a Dog Record, my good friend and consigliere, Marty, called and offered to help me bring this baby into the world... a curator-meets-midwife kind of role. Sometimes, all you need is a little faith and encouragement from a friend to get the creative ball rolling on a new record...

Here is the email I wrote him about an hour after our lively discussion about the record:

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Marty,

To show good faith, when we got off the phone, I started work on a couple of songs for my forthcoming Dog Opus... One song, still in progress, is tentatively titled "Stray". That song tries to capture the serendipitous-and-deliciously-complex moment when a lonely wandering man and a lonely wandering dog finally find each other. Think Brokeback Mountain meets Lassie.

I just finished the second song (below). It is most definitely titled, "Your Crotch, My Nose". It's a jangly folk number with a rural heart and big city dreams. The song descends into an introspective outro... that will leave you pondering the imponderable, questioning the unanswerable, fathoming the... well you get the point.

Yours,

John

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Your Crotch, My Nose
may 12, 2008

intro

I don't know why I do it
it's buried deep inside my genes
but when your friends and family visit
I always make a scene

it's not about affection
or these feelings that we've felt
it's merely an inspection
of that mystery below your belt

your crotch, my nose
your crotch, my nose
I don't know why…
I don't know why…
but they go together

intro

I don't know why you're squirming
breaking out into a sweat
you act like I'm a stranger
like we've never even met

you're blushing and you're cussing
trying to push me away
but you know I'm not a quitter
you didn't raise me that way

your crotch, my nose
your crotch, my nose
I don't know why…
I don't know why…

instrumental bridge

your crotch, my nose
your crotch, my nose
I don't know why…
I don't know why…
but they go together
they go together
they go together
they go together