This is one that has a knack for getting stuck in my head for days, even though it's a total improvisation that's all over the place and sloppy as anything. I just set up two mics near my late 1800s cabinet grand piano, sat down at the big oak piano bench my father-in-law built for us, and hit record. I knocked on the piano bench in the intro, and ended up going off on a few tangents and returning, all the while expressing my desire to get away on vacay.

From my 20-year-old album leave a trace. This album has a lot of well-produced, multi-track studio work, with some of my personal favorites like the title track "leave a trace", "here today", "your skin", "new office", and "shiny", but the last third of the album is simple improvisations such as this one, the thematically similar "in the factory / on vacation" (recorded in Los Gatos, CA, with Ayman and PeBo!), and "moving along".

Thanks for listening!

-Andy

vacationing

got a funny feeling
got a funny feeling
got a funny feeling
got a

spinning in my head 
I can dream in the daytime
spinning in my head
I can dream in the daytime

what the hell was that...

oh no, my right and my left 
appear to be reversed
what a terrible disaster
what a terrible disaster
my stereo is messed up
what a terrible disaster
I'm singing on my right side
and it's coming out on my left ear
it's really funny that I think this is funny
because it really isn't very funny
and I'm just playing little chords
and singing one note 
just to sit in your ear and wonder
if I'll ever stop this song
won't you all sing along

I wish I were on an island
on an island
sitting in the waves
on an island
wish I was sitting in the waves
I love to jump around in the waves
I love to swim around in the waves
I've got sand in my underwear
I've got sand in my teeth
I've got sand just about everywhere
but it is such a relief
to be vacationing
to be vacationing

December 17, 1995
(improvised as the tape rolled)