The Secret.mp3
LYRICS
No, please wait
No, no… please wait
Don’t swallow the secret
No! Please don’t swallow the secret
Do you want to know why
I’m not a spy
Don’t want it to be unheard
That would be absurd
I’ll tell you why
I’m not a spy
I don’t know why
You want to swallow the secret
Don’t swallow the secret
Rather you spill your guts
I know it might sound nuts
But there’s no enemy in me
There’s no enemy in me
Don’t swallow the secret
Or it will kept in all this $hit
That’s not how anybody wants it
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
Em Em7 and variations
128 BPM / Trance
Spy Techniques of the Revolutionary War – Mount Vernon /www.mountvernon.org
Ciphers and secret codes were used to ensure that the contents of a letter could not be read… In haste, the spy swallowed the silver ball to avoid detection.
Other materials were used to hide messages, ranging from buttons on a textile to hollowed out small, silver balls. One particularly unlucky British spy named Daniel Taylor was caught in New Windsor, New York with a message sent from Henry Clinton to John Burgoyne hidden inside one of these small silver balls. In haste, the spy swallowed the silver ball to avoid detection. However, Patriot soldiers forced the spy to drink a purgative and vomit up the ball. Momentarily undeterred, Taylor grabbed the ball and swallowed it again. Under the threat of being hanged and having the ball cut out of his stomach, Taylor relented. However, Taylor would eventually meet the cruel fate of the gallows, executed on October 16, 1777.
An extemporaneous 1-track stereo recording.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers (microKorg; Yamaha PSR-740; miniNova, Alesis Vortex)
From the album Daily Lessons
by Daniel Brouse
