You Can't Change My Mind

Another song taken from an ancient copy of the Wheatstone Bridge demo tape recorded in 1983. I think this one was recorded at Splice Of Life in Watertown, live to eight tracks. This is the first of three that I was working on this afternoon, which started out very hissy indeed...

I like how this opens with Nan Donald playing a bass line, with Phyllis and I joining in serially a few bars later...

When I reflect on this song these many years later, I suppose that it can sound almost a little creepy, but it really wasn't meant that way. It was more a reflection on the sort of relationship where someone really DOES like, or maybe love you, and you can tell, but for some reason they're also being skittish and shy and pushing you away...a little...

Hope that comes across...

This is a Wheatstone Bridge song where we all play guitar, and all sing. The guitars may get a little mushy in the old recording, but we're all playing our bits in different places on the neck...

When I listen, I can really hear in the articulation just how hard to play our old guitars were...

Photo is one I just recently found of Wheatstone Bridge on stage at the Somerville Theater. Kind of battered, and I don't have the negative...

You Can’t Change My Mind
© 1980 Ed Hannifin

Intro:


Something happens to make you shy

Every time I’m alone with you

You can’t shake me but you always try

Do you know what you’re trying to do?

It doesn’t matter what you say:

You can’t change my mind

You can’t make me turn away

You might as well be resigned


Say you don’t believe I love you

Change my mind if I knew you well

You can’t scare me away with stories

There’s nothing left for you to tell

I don’t care if it goes ‘til morning

That won’t change my mind

If I get hurt, you gave me warning

And I’m not walking in blind


[BREAK: 1 x through, verse and chorus]


I don’t care about men who’ve loved you

I don’t care if you’ve hurt them all

Try to chase me out for my own sake

I can wait if you can stall

I don’t care about times before

Oh, that won’t change my mind

You can try and go out the door

But I’ll be right behind

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