I Can't Be On Time

 

 

  

(c) 2004 Words, Music and Arrangement by Dave Caruso
Produced by Remy Lambert and Dave Caruso at Rembrant studios, Allen Park, MI, 2004.

The Musicians
Dave Caruso: Lead Vocal, Backing Vocals
Remy Lambert: Electric Guitars
Jake Tobias: Bass
Chris Wietzke: Drums

From the CD Single: "Elizabeth Parker"

Inspiration:

Here's a straight-forward song about a person who's always late.  Although it's written in the first person, it's not about me.  It's about a few people in my life who were (at that time) habitually late to everything we did together, which used to totally piss me off.  Since I couldn't change them and I still wanted to hang out with them, I wrote the song to develop a sense of humor about it.

The music style was modeled after Elvis Costello's "Mystery Dance."  I wanted the tempo to be fast, so the lyric would speed by like a person running to catch a train.

I don't know why I still remember this, but growing up, I had a friend who gave his brother a hard time for messing up the expression, "You'd be late for your own funeral."  He mistakenly said, "You'd be late for a funeral."  His brother thought that was hilarious.

The abrupt ending was inspired by the ending to Rick Springfield's, "Carry Me Away."