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(music – Kaiser, Keneally, Prince; lyrics – Prince)
I’d asked all the guys in the band to contribute a haiku for the album. Andy and I stuck to the grade-school rigid haiku formula (5 – 7 – 5); Henry, of course, researched the matter thoroughly and found that haiku could accomodate a number of different syllabic schemes, and submitted about ten different examples from which I chose the “wet fox” entry (which adheres to the unorthodox 3 – 4 – 7 syllable scheme); Prairie ignored my guidelines entirely and came up with this poem, having nothing whatsoever to do with haiku. Rather than stifle the lad’s creativity, I went with it – besides it was fun to recite, even with a cold. Prairie said he was shocked the first time he listened to it – my voice sounded exactly like his to him. Again, this started life as a Henry/Prairie six-string bass/drum duet; I overdubbed the voice, the weird stereo harmony guitars during the spoken parts, and the harmonics in harmony in the middle section. The three synth chords at the end are finally, after four appearances, heard in unfettered clarity.

HK – six-string bass
MK – spoken word, guitars, synth at end
PP – drums

lyrics

Grunts to the left of us
Grunts to the right of us
120 feet of people shifting and making mistakes together
Beneath we can hear and feel
The primal beat of its massive engines

We're sailing on an upcurrent
Making mistakes on the way

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from The Mistakes, released December 19, 1995

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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