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• This song was featured on 106.5 The End's show "90 minutes" on Sunday 8/3/08.

• Generally Chris doesn't like explaining their songs to leave room for interpretation by the listener, but for this song he is giving one bit of direction... "To avoid any confusion I will say that Bald Massey is a song written for and to a person who will never hear the song... Bob Dylan. Dylan is, in my opinion, the greatest singer/songwriter I've ever heard, and in the same way that Dylan wrote some of his early songs to his influences we are following in that pattern. The reason why I explain this is to keep people from thinking that this song is about the ANY.Band as the lyrics interpreted that way could make us seem pretty pompous" - Chris Flanigan
• Bald Massey got it's title before we had written any lyrics for the song and we decided to keep it even after we had written the song. It is named for a pastor at Alliance Bible Fellowship named Glen Massey who one day decided he wanted to shave his very pastory hair completely off... hence becoming Bald Massey.
• The lyrics for this song came from the same place that the band's live album Live: Expectations came from.
• "The groove of this song really came out of nowhere. The drums, guitar, and bass all found such tight parts. I get chills every time I listen to it" - Chris Flanigan
• The only part of the song that remains from the original jam/instrumental is the walk down. The exception to this is that the walk down intro was an octave higher when we first wrote the song.
• The structure of the solos at the end is heavily influenced by the lyrics of the song.

Versions

• Game of Hearts Album
• Live @ the keg and cue

Lyrics

   Verse 1
   Expectation 
   is your killing word
   Jubilation 
   with sounds that sound absurd
   You get your kicks
   Pickin' at my soul
   Please try to quit
   Pleasin' gets too old...

   Verse 2
   There's a man who
   Takes apart his shoe
   And he stands
   With feet on top of you
   "Replace your tongue"
   "You should patch that hole"
   Criticize them
   and tear out their soul

   Chorus
   And they all laugh at the blood on the page
   And recall that the fool on the stage
   Is a very simple man
   And he's leading a shoeless band
   And he don't fret the assumptions

   Verse 3
   Bobby goes 
   Where nobody knows
   And he tips his cap 
   To the chifforobe
   Speaks his mind
   to the deaf and the blind
   and it was only for a woman he would sing refined