Numbers Game

by Headless Household

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Headless Household, "Numbers Game" (Joe Woodard)

The Household: Dick Dunlap, piano and keyboard, Joe Woodard, guitar, Chris Symer, bass, Tom Lackner, drums.
Guest vocal/trumpet: Nate Birkey
(with Arlene Dunlap as "sampled enumerator")

Recorded live at Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, Calif., December 1995; one of twenty-plus "Headless Household Christmas Concerts."

Engineered/mixed by Bruce Winter

song copyright 1995, Joe Woodard

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The Numbers Game Joe Woodard

In the numbers game, we're adding and subtracting,
Interacting to the end
That's life, that's math, that's how the numbers fall
Don't try to tell me, don't sell me on your all-in-all
In the rhyming scheme, we're dodging and dislodging
Words in search of little songs
You steal, big deal, the best things in life are free
Your own creation, sensation borrowed from the well

What's this song about?
I have no clue what you're about to do
Your guess is just as good as mine
And possibly it's twice as fine

In the numbers game, all educated guesses
Are investments in the truth
That's why, no lie, that's all the hint you get
No meditation, inflation put my soul on ice
So words and numbers are my vices

copyright 1995, words and music by Joe Woodard

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released June 26, 2022
The Household: Dick Dunlap, piano and keyboard, Joe Woodard, guitar, Chris Symer, bass, Tom Lackner, drums.
Guest vocal/trumpet: Nate Birkey
(with Arlene Dunlap as "sampled enumerator")

Recorded live at Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, Calif., December 1995; one of twenty-plus "Headless Household Christmas Concerts."

Engineered/mixed by Bruce Winter

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Headless Household Santa Barbara, California

New music combo Headless Household (b. 1983) slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. Discography: Balladismo (2015), Basemento (2010), Blur Joan (2005), post-Polka (2003), mockhausen (2000), Free Associations (1999), ITEMS (1995, Inside/Outside USA (1993), and Headless Household (1987)... all on the in-house Household Ink label. ... more

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