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Throw the Picture Away

by Ken Baake

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Throw the Picture Away
by Ken Baake 2012

This is in the spirit of 1960s carnivalesque music (Doors, maybe, or Beatles, “For the Benefit of Mister Kite.”) I was watching lots of the old Untouchables reruns, hence the gangster images. I guess it is about not staying so devoted to any image of yourself that those images prevent you from being your true self, if that makes any sense.

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Throw the Picture Away
Oct. 5, 2012

Intro chords 3/4 time C – Fmaj 7 – Em 2x then to A, then Fdim then high e note
4/4

A Em Am7 A
Talking like a waterfront character again
A Em D7 A
Trying my style out for a spin
D A
Mocking a tough I play, that
Bm7 D/A D/D E
Ruse won’t send the world away.

Cast a pinstripe shadow on the wall
With a gangster’s jeweled wrist gliding down the hall
Hat brim slants to show
The boy that tries to hide below

Solo over verse chords

Fading like a sitcom character again
Drowning my doubts with jabs at my expense
Make them laugh, this clown
Turns the world into his lounge.

Chorus 3/4
C D
Throw the picture away
A
After the painting’s done
C D
Leave the brush outside to lay.
E Then to A 4/4 2x – Fdim - - high e note
Stiff in the morning sun.

A Em D7 A
Playing survivor on an island full of friends
A Em D7 A
Get it right you won’t have to pretend.
D A
Let them see your eyes.
Bm7 D/A D/D E
Melt away your own disguise.
Second chorus 3/4
C + Fmaj 7 Em
Throw the mask away
C+ Fmaj 7 Em
Throw the script away
C+ Fmaj 7 E
Throw the picture away.

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released September 17, 2014
Ken guitar, with Drew Brandon on mandolin.
Engineer/producer Amy DeVoge, Crossroads Recording Studio at Texas Tech

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Ken Baake Lubbock, Texas

Ken was born in Baltimore in 1955. He grew up hearing everyone from Johnny Mercer and Ray Charles to the Beatles on the family hi-fi, with a usual Saturday encore of Wagner's operas. Ken has degrees in English and economics and a background in journalism. He is currently an associate professor of English at Texas Tech, teaching classes in rhetoric. ... more

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