Naked

17 Jun

The eighteenth track on the album Imaginary Cube, this song was previously released under the same title on Imaginary Lines 33 in 2009. This final version of the song features new vocals and guitars by Ric Albano.

Listen to the Song:

Composed by Ric Albano on April 18, 2006
From the album Imaginary Cube by Sinclair Soul
Released on July 10, 2024

Musicians

Ric Albano – piano, guitars, bass, keys, vocals
Ron Simasek – drums

Lyrics

Sally, please give me one more chance, this time it will be OK
And I will quietly fade into oblivion
Once we’ve exhausted this one final day
We’ll play until dark in our amusement park
Sip from a final glass of fleeting youth
String together songs about our rights and our wrongs
And reinterpret them as the Gospel truth

To this no return, hence I continue to burn
Like a feeble fool at the public swimming pool
Who’d shown up naked
A barren fraud whose own intent is at odds, can no longer fake it
But she resolved to evade
With every second of silence she was slicing away
At my plastic shield on this tempered battlefield, humiliated

Sally, please you have got to believe I am legitimate
I’m not the type of lion
Who will resort to the roar just to intimidate
But I’d give it all up to drink from your happy soup cup
If that’s what you’ll serve me
So shoot me some vibes to let me know if I’ve arrived
And you’ll affirm me

But still no reply, no confirm, no deny
Like some pilgrim dolt, whose land is swallowed whole
Right after he’s staked it
I was peerless fool wearing non-matching shoes
But otherwise naked

As she continued to sing her song of silence was now deafening
To a pathetic pawn, evicted from her lawn
Right after he’s raked it

Yes, she continued to sing, this song of silence was so deafening
To this squalid joke, externally gone for broke, internally naked

Imaginary Cube