IT TAKES A KERRY SONG (TO MAKE IT GRAND)
(To the tune of "It Takes a Woman's Love (To Make a Man)," from the Kansas album Masque)
 

Now every night when I am on my own,
Phil calls up Kerry on the telephone
He asks him straight; he asks him right
If he has written any songs tonight

I can't believe the way he disses me;
I'll write the album with ol' Billy G.
We'll make 'em PotSWers understand
We don't need Kerry to be a great band

I'm up all night tryin' to write new songs
Been playing "CoWS" for much too long
These same old songs are drivin' me insane;
Let's play "The Preacher" and "The Devil Game"

I'm doing what I've got to do;
I put my heart in "Taking in the View"
Been twenty years since "Lightning's Hand"--
I need a Kerry song to make it grand!

It takes a Kerry song to make it grand
I need a Kerry song to give the band
A contrapuntal fugue and eight handstands?
This Kerry thing is getting out of hand!

To make it grand--yeah
It's out of hand

(Insert various overdubbed comments by Robby concerning
the state of the music industry, the band's musical heritage
and the indefatigability of the PotSW...
(oh, wait, that's just on the radio version))

If not orchestras, then what can it be?
What do these South Wind people want from me?
It's really hard to try and write
With Phil and Kerry talkin' every night

It's no use howlin' at the moon
I guess we'll have to use a Livgren tune
The empty page and pen are in his hand--
I know them PotSWers made me understand,
It takes a Kerry song to make it grand
I know them PotSWers made me understand,
It takes a Kerry song to make it grand

Ooooooh Oooh hoooo Ooooooh hoooh!*
 

(*Not an impersonation of Arnold Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter
(which was a popular TV show right around the time when Masque came out
(and danged if there aren't more parenthetical asides on this page
than there are in the title of the song)))