"Situps by the Pool" genre: Folk Rock
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	A perky song with a stick-in-your-head melody, a high, ringing guitar and a tuba.
	CD: Separate Checks   Label: Burning House Music Credits: Words and music by Henry Terrell
	Story Behind the Song This was a very late addition to the Separate Checks album. For me, it marks the center of the project. The questions about future directions, what will I be doing, where should I take this music, are the kinds of things that occur to musicians who are burrowing into middle age. The refrain "look alive, look alive" is a kind of self-encouragement for a man facing the second half. We recorded it in late 99, but when we mixed it at Sugar Hill we weren't happy with the result -- it seemed too lose and floppy. We re-recorded the drum part and then, on a whim, pulled of the perfectly good bass part and added a tuba. Voila, it all came together and made some kind of sense. Lyrics Past the point of no return Can't see the ending or remember where I've been May I ask questions in my turn Not expecting that I'd be any wiser for the trouble Look alive Will I do situps by the pool Ignore misfortune, observe the golden rule Will I be patient, free and cool Will I gladly pay the bill, reveal the way I feel Look alive Once when I went walking On the road from San Martin A song stuck in my head so bad I could not set it free Something by the Clovers, or maybe Bobby Vee Drums in the footfalls, a chorus in the wind By morning it had gone away And it never came again I'm not afraid of being poor Can't get accustomed to the way people come and go I'll miss your voice most of all When you laugh and turn around, stop and squeeze my hand Look alive Will I do situps by the pool Ignore misfortune, observe the golden rule Will I be patient, free and cool Will I gladly pay the bill, reveal the way I feel Look alive Look alive Look alive

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