King of Fools

1. Images Of Lace (with Psyche 467)
2. King Of Fools
3. Hey Lucinda
4. Collar To The Wind
5. Nothing Left (with Stan Corbett)
6. Forever For You
7. 41 Hotel
8. Walking Disease
9. Way Of Things (with Psyche 467)
10. Problems Of Happiness
11. Gray Day
12. Big Blue Sky
13. Blue (Phillips-Corbett)
14. King Of Fools(Younger Version)
15. Concrete Thought (James Keesey Lead Vocal)
16. Let Me In (with Psyche 467)

Bonus Tracks:

1. Nothing Left (Slow Version)
2. Problems Of Happiness (Original Demo 1985)

Hangnail Phillips: Vocals, guitars, sitar, keyboards, clarinet, sax, Flute, harmonica, drums, etc.
James Keesey: Vocals, drums, tablas, bongos, etc.
Stan Corbett: Guitar, drum machine, synthesizer, bass
Mike Busch: Bass, guitar
Dave Bennett: Keyboard on “Problems Of Happiness”
Nothing Left (theme from the Scott Shaw film)

Let us be lovers
Forget the things they do.
We can be happy together
Me and you.
Try not to think of the things that hurt
We’ll only think for ourselves

’cause everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

I know you love him
As much as I love her.
But we’ve been waiting too long
For love to stir.
Stand here beside me and hold me close
Safe in the warmth of my arms

’cause everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

Everyone is so downhearted with the great pursuit
But just between me and you, there’s no problem.
In the grander scheme of things, the real & make believe…
I’ll just wear my heart out on my sleeve

I’m not suggesting a permanent thing
Just therapy for our hearts

’cause everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

Yes everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

Copyright 1985, 2001, Hangnail Phillips

Hangnail Phillips: Vocals, Muted Guitar, Bass, Hi-hat & Snare, Clarinets
Dave Bennett: Electric Piano

Let Me In (Phillips)

There’s a midnight rain in Dowland and it’s freezing
And it’s a long long way to anywhere from here
There’s a distant glow from Aberdeen
But your light is the only one that’s near

Let me in
All I want is shelter from the storm
Let me in
It’s freezing and the fire is warm

It’s a long long way to paradise when you’re a dreamer
‘Cause you never really know which choice to make
There’s a million miles of highway to be traveled
But there’s only so much strain these legs can take

Copyright 1980, 2001, Hangnail Phillips

Hangnail Phillips: Lead Vocal, Gibson SG, Moog Synthsizer
Stand Corbett: Acoustic guitars
Mike Busch: Bass
James Keesey: Vocals, drums

Concrete Thought (Phillips)

I’d like to pave the world with concrete
Then I couldn’t see what we’ve become.
I’d really like the look of asphalt
Then all roads would really lead to Rome.

I’d like to set the world on fire
And leave us with a land of char and ash.
I’d like to see us drowning in our mire
And let that be our final dying breath.

We been steppin’ on God’s toes
And everybody knows
The world is goin’ down.

I’d like to pave the world with concrete
And make it flat from sea to shining sea.
Imagine strolling on an endless sidewalk
You’d never have your view obscured by trees.

We gotta face the world alone
Without The Beatles or The Stones
And what will we do now?

I’d like to spray the world with Krylon.
And hold it there for everyone to see.
I’d like change the air to a vacuum.
And watch the sun go down
Forever.

Copyright 1992, Hangnail Phillips

James Keesey: Lead Vocal
Hangnail Phillips: Vocals, Midi Score (Drums and Digital Saxes),
Rickenbaker Bass, Classical Guitar,
Backwards Lead Guitar

King Of Fools (Phillips)

Make no misunderstanding
I don’t like underhanded ways
But I can turn my back and
Pretend you do the things you say
And pretty darling if the sun don’t shine
I can always see the light of day

You don’t have to play the rules
And you never have to tell the truth
I’ll be the king of fools for you.

I don’t mind being in storage
If I can have you for a while
Don’t mind you being unfaithful
I realize it’s just your style
And pretty baby if the sun don’t shine
I can always see the light of day

Copyright 1980, 2001, Hangnail Phillips

Hangnail Phillips: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Baritone Saxophone

Blue (Lyrics by Stan Corbett – Music by Hangnail Phillips)

Blue that’s on the rise
Touched by a dark fluorescent hue
Seething with the weight of every angle’s point of view
By definition there is nothing to receive
The air is far to crisp for me to disbelieve

Moving side to side
The fading mist is hard to see
In subtle ways it still electrifies the scene
And underneath no one is putting on a show
Stripped to essentials at once dark and all aglow

Cold here serves to please
Frightened but at ease
Singular in thought and by design
Blue in mind

Feeling like a dream
Ethereal and on display
No sense of time
Clearer in purpose, words away
The wind swept trees are standing silent, I explore
No contradiction sensed, I wish I could say more

Cold here serves to please
Frightened but at ease
The singularity invigorates the cline
The color of the time
Bluer than thoughts
Electrified

Copyright 1995, Crunchy Frog Music

Hangnail Phillips: Vocal, Egmund Acoustic 12-String Guitar, MIDI Score

Big Blue Sky (Phillips)

I don’t remember life being this hard
Coming to terms with the things that we are.
I keep my composure but deep down inside
There’s a dark discordant feeling I hide

I look to the heavens to show me the way
To help me on that road ahead
When I need the comfort and strength to go on
I just look into that big blue sky

Copyright 1995, Hangnail Phillips

Hangnail Phillips: Vocals, Synthesizer

Gray Day (Phillips)

It’s a gray day and it’s trying to rain
It’s been a long time
Now it’s trying again
We welcome a change in the weather
It’s been dry for so long
It’s a gray day but it won’t last long

It’s a cool day my head in the clouds
I’ve been singing
Just thinking out loud
How could I know you were dreaming
Of how much you need to be free
It’s a cool day for you and for me

In the night when the morning comes you’ll find me still awake
Staring up at the ceiling missing you
Even before Satyricon we’d sung our last refrain
You left me there
Standing in the rain

It’s a new moon and wonders abound
In the darkness I hear not a sound
And that which I thought was forever
Turned out to be just for a while
It’s a gray day but it won’t last long.
It’s a gray day but it won’t last long.

Hangnail Phillips: vocals, guitars, organ, bass, drums
Copyright 2001, Hangnail Phillips

The Problems Of Happiness (Phillips)

Let us be lovers
Forget the things they do.
We can be happy together
Me and you.
Try not to think of the things that hurt
We’ll only think for ourselves

’cause everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

I know you love him
As much as I love her.
But we’ve been waiting too long
For love to stir.
Stand here beside me and hold me close
Safe in the warmth of my arms

’cause everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

Everyone is so downhearted with the great pursuit
But just between me and you, there’s no problem.
In the grander scheme of things, the real & make believe…
I’ll just wear my heart out on my sleeve

I’m not suggesting a permanent thing
Just therapy for our hearts

’cause everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

Yes everyone should come to terms
With the problems of happiness.

Copyright 1985, 2001, Hangnail Phillips

Hangnail Phillips: Vocals, Muted Guitar, Bass, Hi-hat & Snare, Clarinets
Dave Bennett: Electric Piano