Written: Monterey Street, Farmington NM, spring 1967
Knees was living at home fending off the draft (unsuccessfully) and the other guitar player in The Disciples, Mo Moses, was living there too. Mo liked to play smooth, jazzy chords and this was Knees’ stab at using them. The title is a pastiche of the Flying Burrito Brothers’ Hot Burrito #1, which was also a slow song with smooth chords.
Baby I’ve left your world behind,
I never wanted to be blind
But you made me feel
Like I was lost in the maze of your mind.
And baby the hold you had on me
Was too real for our love to be
The kind of love
That I could grasp and still be free.
And I hope that you will find
The way to peace of mind
In that world you made so unconsciously
But I doubt you’ll ever see
What love can mean when free
The world now turns for me.