"Cognito" by Nappy Martin "How dassed you wish beyond your star!" MENDING NEWS: A few years back, I did a slap-up video, for a song called "Paint Your Face", of a clown who looked more like the one Dave Davies sang about. For this song, with my chroma green backdrop and, yes, t-shirt I could make it more of a mime, make them look at my whole face and my hands. The tie had been purchased specifically for the interview cited in "Counterfile" and here was an opportunity to present it in its starkest contrast. Even with four broken ribs from a fall the day before (feeling more like the clown Dave Davies sang about!), I couldn't pass up an opportunity like this! This is for all the precast wannabes who outshine, even within, the chrysalides you too will leave tethered. "Paint Your Face", that's another story, but it'll get here. All in good fun! To Andy V., who has always seen through that smallball... even in the singular! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lyrics: how dassed you wish beyond your star, that you’d presume to go so far as those of nobler name, of whom not one’s to blame, for what's become of you at least we know now who you are, though still we mock you from afar we never thought to trust, you might be one of us, that took its toll on you now that you've licked us at our game, and won't go back to whence you came we'll take you in awhile, until you're out of style again cognito, at long last we've found you, cognito, there’s no getting ‘round you nor all that you've done so well, rising each time you fell no need your side to tell, we always knew though not cut out for wealth or fame, your quest for both deserves no shame for selfless diligence has brought you recompense. beyond our wildest dreams in friends who proudly can proclaim, they stood behind you even when there was no telling how you might survive till now, despite our every scheme those vast ambitions of your soul, that always left us in the cold now find you realized, within our very eyes to hold cognito, at long last we've found you, cognito, there’s no getting ‘round you rising each time you fell, to a heaven you carved from hell no need your side to tell, we always knew (break) how dassed you wish beyond your star... (break) that you’d presume to go so faaaar those vast ambitions of your soul, that always left us in the cold now find you realized, within our very eyes to hold cognito, at long last we've found you, cognito, there’s no getting ‘round you rising each time you fell, to a heaven you carved from hell no need your side to tell, we always knew
