0:00/???
  1. Believe You Me

From the recording MY MUSEUM

In cart Not available Out of stock

17. BELIEVE YOU ME
(music - Peter Eldridge, lyrics - Doug Worth)
Peter Eldridge - vocal and piano
Produced by Peter Eldridge
– back on the jazz train, this is a live solo voice and piano version of a waltz I wrote sometime in the mid to late 90’s (I’m just a sucker for a jazz waltz) – once again lyrics written by Doug Worth and myself. I had been listening to a lot to Branford Marsalis’ quartet with Kenny Kirkland when I wrote this one, that music definitely an inspiration. ‘Believe you me’ is an old expression my dad would say that I always laughed at but never quite understood. This song has had a few incarnations, but usually feels best with a subtle, swinging trio and a horn doubling the middle instrumental section.

Lyrics

BELIEVE YOU ME
(music - Peter Eldridge, lyrics - Doug Worth)

Life’s a dance whose bright patterns change
Just when you get used to one
Things rearrange.

Though you may have settled on this one:
Roses and picket fence,
Boards can crumble, blossoms tumble down
It’s tough
Believe you me.

Where to stand on such shaky ground
Cosmical kaleidoscope
shifting around.
Go with the flux and flow of every thrill, every spill
As you embrace the new
And once more go whirling through the blue
It’s rough
Believe me you.

So you cut your losses and just keep on moving on,
That faint glow way over there
Could be some new world’s dawn.

Sure life is just a sip of some cosmic soup (as they say?)
So just take it as it comes
Keep evolving, problem-solving
Such wild stuff
Believe you me
Believe you me.