MAB Q&A

August 22, 2014

#400

And my ears are ALWAYS open to pick up conversations, snippets, situations, senarios,etc. that could be a song. There are usually a dozen ideas a night or day that I could write if needed. Those are what I pull out when people are wanting to write but have no ideas or know where they are going. I also use those experiences to add to what they are trying to say.
MAB

I can testify to that.... I met with MAB for the 2nd time and after we had tossed out all "my songs" He said what else have you got Jaaaaaaaan?"

So I said " well Ive been fooling with this"

Tap dancing in a mine field

Better keep my big mouth shut

It ‘s all about relativity

Yours and mine

I aint gonna shine

You’re Dad don’t like me

Its like tap dancing in a minefield

Never knowing when the big bang comes

Don’t if to stay or run

One foot on the ground

The other in my mouth

Intrapersonal Miscommunication .. head as a trophy over the fireplace

and that was about it .. "

So I talked about what I had in mind and how I got to the topic while Marc scribbled on his yellow pad and this is how it ended up.

I have no pretentions about being a( even an aged ) rockstar. I do this thing cos I cant stop.

I had a demo done by Dale Crockett to suit the budget I had for a vanity track .

https://www.songramp.net/music/513/tap-dancing-in-a-mine-field/

TAP DANCING IN THE MINEFIELD Rev Aug 30^th 2012

MAB/John Westwood. Vocals and sound By Dale Crockett

Some days I feel I speak a different language
Get confused in simple conversation
How did How’ve you been?
Turn into a Spanish Inquisition

My girls’ Dad thinks that I’m a Martian
When I’m around, he acts like I’m the weird one
Like my head is one of his trophies,
mounted over his guns

Try to watch what words I use
But no matter what I do

Chorus

Feels likeI’M TAP DANCING IN A MINEFIELD
WALKING AROUND TIP TOEING ON EGGSHELLS
OPEN MOUTH INSERT FOOT. WONDERING IF I SHOULD
KEEP MY TRAP SHUT OR SAY HOW I REALLY FEEL
Feels likeI’M TAP DANCING IN A MINEFIELD

In the check out at Kroger buying groceries
Woman in line, bumps into me
Says I smiled wrong at her,
poked me with her finger

There’s a fine line between being helpful
And causing somebody to go postal
Where that line is, is anybody’s guess

I can’t figure out
Should I just be a grouch

Chorus

Intrapersonal Miscommunication
sometimes leads to misinterpretation
say what you mean, mean what you say
somebody might get it wrong any way

Chorus