Story behind "Furniture"

This song I just named Furniture because its a song written to a girl with the last name being Sofa and thought it was a clever way to allude to who it's for while keeping her identity under wraps. It's a more straight forward and romantic song than Joint chiefs of staff but like the latter was embarking on new territorty for me. the song doesn't repeat lyrics at all untill the end but the music is always repeating.... In the past I'd always relied on chourses and bridges to keep things interesting but here the lyrics entertain enough. I met up with this girl at the taste of chicago that I hadn't seen in years and I fell head over heels, the song really speaks for itself. one of my favorite parts is singing" blackbird singing in the dead of night..."which I've yet to find out how much if any will have to be paid to Paul McCartney for that line. Ashley (who 's the muse for this song) and I did get engaged (even with full knowledge of her medical predicimant )after her return from Japan( I whooed her one evening on the piano playing this song). It was short lived, her battle with cysctic fiybrosis came to a head and she passed away roughly a month and a half ago. She will be missed by friends and family alike.
Ashley this ones for you

The story behind "Joint Chiefs of Staff"

I think this is by far the most cracked out lyrics I've written to date. written almost in entirety around january or feb of 08. There was a period of time around there I had taken a sebatical from work, lived off my savings and wrote, wrote, wrote, smoked a carton, and wrote more. I was really excited about the music already, with it's coldplay clocks like feel and repetiotion, but felt that the lyrics needed to be both profound and mysterious. I had been listening to dylans 1966 albums " highway 61 revisted" and "bringing it all back home" albums and was blown away by his lyrics. I went to the library and engossed myself in those lyrics, I studied his petamiter, and rhyme schmees and was inspired. I used an average american dictionary and fell in love with words all over again. I don't smoke pot but for some reason was compelled to use the word Joint in a song. It's like the words gay or ass which are both taboo but used in ano0ther context mean something completely different, happy and donkeys YEAH. I wanted the words Joint Chiefs of staff to be for me in this song like the words" like a rolling stone" was for him in his. words to hook you and be there for you every twist and turn in an otherwise wild surreal song. It was around this time I had decided to change my stage name from Jeremee Lee to Jeremee Lee Ecko to just Red Ecko. thus the chourus about changing names. Billianaire Marc Ecko ,Axl Rose, Elton John, Tori Amos, Jacob (in bible)Israel, Alice Cooper, Bob Dylan, Emminem, and the list goes on; were all people who had done it. Much like Jacob I felt as if I was wrestling with an angel and had overcome... I felt like a part of me had died but that I had gained so much more. Whats in a name...? I used to get called Red because of my hair color and Ecko, well Ecko just was so close to Eckhoff, but so much shorter and so cool sounding like Echo. plus 7 years prior I had remembered the first Ecko clothing shipmant I recieved while working at the Buckle in the mall and not thinking of taking it for my own was glad to see the words ECK on clothing. enough about names...... the line about money has some ideas stolen from Jesus about giving Casear whats Casears andGod what is his. U.S. Sr. isthe old soviet Union. the president changes his name every 4 years or so and damn it the diamonds are forever. part 1

Take My Hand

From all to choose from I ask that you'd choose me
what i lack in being handsome I make up for in personality
Just give me a shot you're one I'd love to care for
If you knew my heart, you're own would rest assurred

cause my river it flows
forever it goes
it's undying
it's strong and it's true
amoung the meadows
the hills and shadows
my bones burn to be with you

please be mine and i'd be your man
and we'd be king and queen of this land
Lady, please take, my hand

take my hand and make me one with you
understand the depth of my love too
I'll give you all just tell me what you need
anything for a flower, beaming with bright beauty

cause my river.........

copyright 2008
Red Ecko

(aka jeremee)

Furniture

We met up at the taste
you were hanging with your best friend Liz
and you snuck up from behind me
as I was talking to some socialists

I turned around when you called my name
nothing had changed the same freckled face
the same *** hair and brown eyes
the same lips for a smile on a head held high

you always had you're head held high
and I smiled

where you working
where you going
where you been
whats up?
you know the stuff you ask people you knew once
but kinda lost track of keeping in touch well
you said you'd been to Africa
and you were leaving for Japan
which didn't surprise me to much
you'd always been the kind of girl who loved the travelin

do you remember Austria?
Innsbruck,Salzberg, and graz?
at least remember vienna
blackbird singing in the dead of night...

well I ain't be to Africa
and I ain't leaving for Japan
I'm hanging out in Illinois,playing heart and soul
looking for a lover to play the right hand

and you'd become a buddist
and wanted to be a nun in the pillars of faith
well let me save you girl from a sweet bitter future
convent life gets stale soon enough anyway

are you concerned about the future
still worried about the fate of sun, moon and stars
well let me tell you girl it's not worth the headache
you have to let mystery have its' charm

but I can tell you the good news
it's only telephone lines on the cross that Christ beared
and the wire that I am choose n is the one that ain't losin
and will ring your telephone to let you know that I still care

I'm not afraid of you cold dispostion
I got powers in the spooning postion
give me an hour of quality kissin
I'd have you melt in my arms

I want more than what money
I said I want more than what money
I want more than what money can buy...
I want your love

copyright 2008
Red Ecko

(aka Jeremee Eckhoff)

JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

Joint Chiefs Of Staff

A battering rame brakes down the door

an infinate chalace and a grim reaper

are jettisoned on to a meteor

by the joint chiefs of staff

Lettuce Man with his leprosy

rotting away in the infermory

seen by doctor DeGaulle, the Oxford degrees

and the joint chiefs of staff

the moneys gone

the moneys spent

you know exactley where it went

the moneys gone

but its ok

whose portraits on there anyway

and my lady friend that i used to date

said you're just another who name got changed,

agree its better miss vader

I do testify

remember jacobs on my side

so is the president

the queen of hearts

and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (yeah, yeah, yeah)

U. S. SR. has broken up

U.S. Jr talks to Sofia

stouthearted boys out in topeka

know the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Pawnbroker pavlov is sick again

Remembrandt and Mozart are drinking Gin

and all of the girls out in finland

Love the Joint Chiefs of Staff

The moneys gone

the moneys spent

you know exactley where it went

the moneys gone

but it's ok

whose portraits on there anyway?

and that girl friend that I used to date

said you're just another poet looking for fame

agree it's better miss vader I do testify

it's not fame I'm after I just don't want to ever die

like the universe

the queen of Diamonds

and the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( yeah ,Yeah, Yeah!)

a table for two in the heart of moscow

the poets and painters are taking a bow

in mexico there proud to anounce

the Joint Chiefs of Staff