Now Playing: Manic Man
An audiocard from the Vivid Stage
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RL Stephenson (Bob to his friends) gave us the classic tale good and evil, restraint and abandon, day and night, Jekyll and Hyde. There is a bit of the bipole flux in us all. For some, it can be a call too strong to defy.
Cy, a main character of my next musical, is a good man with bad impulses. The night minister reads him like a book and calls him to testify. Down on your knees!
David is a force of musical nature on this song, playing both piano and organ, with Jon Fellows on bass. The brass man of Bristol, Jonny Bruce, added brilliant soul-infused trumpet parts, and the whole crew gathered around a mic for claps during the final mix. Russel Cottier produced the song at the amazing Soundhouse Studios in Liverpool.
go climb a mountain
right up to god
go look him in the eye
say hey man what do I got
you hear the thunder
that heathen bawl
you hear the sins and the saints of the night
you hear it all
you head the call
go on and climb a mountain
right up to god
go look him in the eye
say hey man what do I got
you hear the thunder the drum beat
that heathen bawl
you hear the howls in the bowels of the night
where the hyenas call
you hear it all
you're a manic man
are you losing friends
brother are you losing sleep
your family don't love you no more
or the company you keep
you ain't no butterfly
get out of your cocoon
you're just an ugly, ugly worm
with the caterpillar blues
now go sing the news
you're a manic man
you were a respected man
in this community
and your boss he said he saw
a big future to be
mister responsibility
in the morning light
but Doctor Jekyll met Mister Hyde
in the night
and he start to bite
go and climb a mountain
right up to god
you gotta look him in the eye
hey man what do I got
you hear the thunder, the drum beat
one two three four
you get a happy bouncy feeling in your feet
to find a back door
do you have a cure, do you have a cure
for the manic man
Words & Music by Bill Magill ©