Make Me Over (for Eric & Tracy)

from SHIFTINGEARS by Rich Arithmetic

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"Make Me Over" was an attempt to write a "bar band" song for my pal Charlie, who fronts a popular blues-rock band, but we discovered (maybe not unsurprisingly) that it basically sounded like a pop song dressed up in bar band clothes. So instead of Charlie's band performing the song, I recorded it as a Rich Arithmetic song with Charlie's barroom-inflected lead vocal & bluesy harmonica.

As to the lyrics -- I've always been aware of a theme in popular music in which women sing that they do not want to be made over by "their man" (egs., Dionne Warwick's "Don't Make Me Over" and Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me"). But I was not aware of similar sentiments sung by males. So I decided to turn the genre on its head with a man singing that he DOES want to be made over by his woman, borrowing the characters Eric & Tracy from several erotic short stories as my models.

lyrics

MAKE ME OVER (for Eric & Tracy)
by Richard Horton © Hortones

Change me, baby, any kind’a way you want to
Just make me over
It won’t be strange, what do you want me to do
To make me over?
I’ll never be all I can be
Without you pulling my strings
Make me over

Mold me, baby, groom, and shape me your way
Just make me over
I’m sold, babe, I’ll be the strings that you play
Please make me over
You be the sculptor, I’ll be your clay
Do with me what you may
Make me over

I'll never be all I can be
Without you pulling my strings
Make me over

Me, I’m fine, I’ve done my time just to
be made of a kind you can design

Give me a list of all that you need to
Make me over
I’m not a mystery, I’m sure that you’ll see
Just make me over
You won’t need to coax
You won’t need to plead
To bring me up to speed
Make me over
Make me over

(You be the sculptor/I’ll be the clay
Do with me what you may)

credits

from SHIFTINGEARS, released January 29, 2021
Produced by Richard Horton & James Nicholson
Acoustic & electric guitars, bass, harmony vocals, drums, tambourine: RICH ARITHMETIC
Lead & harmony vocals, harmonica: DR. CHARLIE MALISZEWSKI

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Rich Arithmetic serves up power pop, psych-pop, and folk-meets-surf-and-sand harmonies that "eliminate the gaps between the ‘60s, ‘80s and the 2020's" - Steve Stav, stevestav.com

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