"Shooting Stars" genre: AAA/Adult Alternative
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	A jazzy little fable about an American family, featuring Poe on guitar and Mark P on alto sax
	MP3.com CD: Music from Mad Mesquite - buy it! Label: Sonoran Bayou Records Credits: Mark Phillips - alto sax, Poe - guitar, CP - vocals, keyboards, programming, words & music
	Story Behind the Song This was written in the Mad Mesquite Studio in 1998. I wanted a 2 chord jazzy vamp to tell a long story that unfolded somewhat spontaneously. The chorus gets more complicated and features more keyboard goodies including muted trumpet lines from a Proteus 2000 synth module. Notice Poe's jazzy guitar chords that give the track a bouncy hip feel.ˇ Lyrics The father was a farmer from eastern Tennessee The mother came from Ireland in 1883 They fell in love in Nashville and quickly said I do Then they bought a horse and wagon and bid their friends adieu They stopped in Oklahoma and tried to farm the land Bu t the lack of rain and choking dust made them change their plans So they saved a little money and opened a hardware store Life was good in their house of wood and they didn't look for more (chorus) The universe is speaking in the stream at my feet Tell i ng tales of reason from beyond the sky But shooting stars Confuse the constellations Oh those shooting stars Oh those shooting stars Their first born came in April in the Oklahoma spring Grasslands thanked the rains and the stream began to sing They n am ed him Tom, watched him grow and taught him all they could He learned about the earth and sky and about bad and good When Tom was only six years old he loved to look for rocks He'd find the stones along the stream and keep them in a box Then one day h e f ound it, wading in a stream A little lump of iron, a sky rock for his dreams When Tom turned twenty-two years old it was time for sad goodbyes He travelled west, a Sonoran quest to the land of shocking skies He learned to speak good Spanish and ma rri ed a local girl She looked into his sky rock and saw his future world Their first born came in August in the Arizona night They named her Bird, watched her grow with the morning's brilliant light She watched the moon with telescopes just like dad an d mom And imagined distant worlds where Dad's sky rock was from That was many years ago, Jason tells his girls When grandma Bird told them about those distant worlds Then Jason's girls learned to fly in space like Sally Ride They flew their ship to the mo on, Tom smiled from the endless sky

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