Download: Go As A Child by Baby
Download: New York Song Cockroach by Baby
Artist: Baby
Album: Pourquoi Liquoi Sisz Boom Ba!
Track 17: Go As A Child 160 kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3, 2:15
Track 18: New York Song Cockroach 160 kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3, :33
In the days and weeks leading up to Bab and Jen's trip to NYC things got more intense. Bab was really freaking us out. He was convinced that he would not return. That something terrible would happen during their stay in NYC to prevent them from either returning or living. This meant that he had to finish the album before he left.
We had no idea what he was talking about. He would call Pat and Me and I'm sure others to prepare us for something awful. We thought he was on drugs. We thought he was suicidal. We couldn't understand why a simple trip to New York would cause such a panic. It was bizarre behavior to say the least. But he was Bab, and Bab is different. So we tried to console him as best we could, we even said that maybe he shouldn't go... but he had to go. I mean this was a vacation to the greatest city in the world. It will be fun. There's bands and bars and lights and touristy stuff and history, what could go wrong?
On the day before he left, he had a listening party. He had never done that before. He had just finished the album a few hours earlier and he invited all of the friends over to hear it. It felt like a goodbye party. Everyone was a little uneasy because of what Bab had been saying. But we tried to enjoy ourselves and it was clear just by listening to it, that it was his greatest work to date. That was also frightening to me. I mean what a way to go out! Flame on! I can't express the tension and apprehension that was in the air. I'm sure lots of people were thinking of Dale that night as well. Is this what Bab was planning? Some kind of suicide?
He kept saying that he had no intention of doing that, but he wasn't coming back. He wasn't moving there either. He didn't know what was going to happen, but it probably meant his death.
At the end of the party, Bab gave me a box. It was filled with the master tapes of every album he ever recorded plus instructions on what to do with Pourquoi. He told me where to take a photo for the cover, what to say in the liner notes, how to release it, etc. It was crazy. I kept trying to reassure him. He said that it was probably something to do with a plane. I said that people fly in and out of New York everyday. Nothing happens. Nothing will happen...
He said he knew, and we said goodbye.
On the morning of 9/11 when I heard about what happened. My first thought was of Bab. This is what he meant. It had to be. I thought he was dead.
4 go as a child
trusting none always running to the pain killer mile
go as a child
you saw through opened up your eyes for the first time
go as a child
you came to the day from a bad dream crying
you came to the day from a bad dream crying
it was too vivid
you came as a child
baby to take a leap of faith into this come alive
go as a child
you came to the day from a bad dream crying
you came to the day from a bad dream crying
it was too vivid
you came as a child
you came as a child
baby to take a leap of faith into this come alive
go as a child
go as a child
go as a child
d$ drums/ tamb
spoons organ
bab the rest
5 new york song cockroach (same recording session as 16 & 17)
my kind of town
streets are real brown
the sun's going down on you (3x)
it is 6:50 am, 9/12/01. the manhattan morning is broken by the first of many sirens to come on this post apocalyptic airplane disaster day. as much as i dislike all bastions of excess, greed, pollution, crime, garbage, etc..., vis a vis cities, i must admit the applers came thru with gold stars all around yesterday. if this had happened in some other civilized burg such as l.a., there would have been rape, pillage, carnage, and the possible beginning of the end. the plastic people these apples were not. i only saw 2 people still working on their tan. tinsletown would have had enuf mayhem from the overflow in the tanning salons alone to start the implosion. new york song cockroach was written on arrival to the house that ruth built. it was a semi-mocking jolson, mermanesque jibe at the horror known as metropolis. the sun coming down on you. may it not.
bab
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