I like it, slowed down rockin' version much more emotional! those two nitwits should have jammed out to this when they were jacked up they may have fallen asleep...
In guitar rock, its the riff that matters. Whether its Spooky Tooth or Priest, whom I love, its a great riff. Priest just made it louder and heavier but it was the riff that Spooky Tooth wrote. Great quivery vocal. Back then this stuff was considered heavy, and it was for its time and like most stuff from its era, more groundbreaking than anything that came along in the 80's and beyond.
You could find a way to ease my passion
You listen to the blood flow in my veins
You hear the teaching of the wind
Tell her why I'm alive within
I can't find the words My mind is dead
It's better by you better than me
Guess you'll have to tell her how I tried
To speak up thoughts I've held so inside
Tell her now I got to go
Out in the streets and down the shore
Tell her the world's not much living for
It's better by you better than me
Everybody
Everybody knows
Everybody
Everybody knows
Better by you better than me
You can tell what I want it to be
You can say what I only can see
It's better by you better than me
Guess I'll have to change my way of living
Don't wanna really know the way I feel
Guess I'll learn to fight and kill
Tell her not to wait until
They'll find my blood upon her windowsill?
It's better by you better than me
Everybody
Everybody knows
Everybody
Everybody knows
Better by you better than me
You can say what I only can see
You can tell what I want it to be
It's better by you better than me
Better by you better than me
You can tell what I want it to be
You can say way all they can see
Better by you better than me
Better by you better than me
You can say way all they can see
You can tell what I want it to be
Incredible- most of this original, unique stuff from the late '60s -early '70s is usually posted by people in their early twenties! Some of my guitar students, (even younger!), know more bands and their history from back then, than I do! Even their parents aren't old enough- something special about the writing back then.
I was a huge Spooky Tooth fan, even saw them once at the Boston Tea Party. When Luther Grosvenor went to Mott the Hoople, I saw him play with Ian Hunter twice. He is a great guitarist & one o my heroes....