Fastbacks: Win, Lose or Both

While a CD with thirteen bonus tracks of 1998's Win Lose or Both is in-print, I needed to post the four-song version because it contains my favourite Fastbacks cover (alongside their version of "Midnight Confessions"). The song in question is "Book of Revelation" by Dr. Frank from his band, The Mr T Experience's career defining album, Milk, Milk Lemonade. There's sometimes an admirable humility in an older song-writer, especially a master one, taking on a song by a comparatively newer writer. A cover that sounds fantastic and underscores the brilliance of the original.

Book Of Revelation

My foundation ever unshaken
nothing but life and devastation
being so together it seemed whatever
till I read your book of revelation
probably I'd be much better off not knowing
but you were so sloppy now your slip is showing
dangerous and jaded self-perpetuated
cute but over-rated
you'd do everything just to look distracted
never unattractive but overacted
it didn't fall apart till I put it together
then just a paragraph changed my life forever
when you know the ending open wide and read it
how you made your bed and now you have to eat it
now I get to keep it all I ever needed
so why do I still feel cheated
I can't believe my eyes what I saw last night
what I know today book of revelation
so now you finally got to say
that you really felt that way
and it hit me pretty hard
and though we've carried it so far
I know that's the way things are today
that's the way they are
I can't make up my mind what I must decide
what I have to say book of revelation

Dr. Frank

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P.S. Last in a series of TEN Fastbacks posts!