This one’s about grief and coming to terms with your own mortality. For the musos out there, the piece follows the stages of grieving: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Also, the individual instrumental parts, including the guitar solos, mirror this. And to further make it unmistakably human, the stages are messed up. Features Alison Allison on recorders and Reuben Allison on cello. I deliberately left raw edges in.
lyrics
I Sometimes feel it waiting for me.
Waiting for me
just to make the fatal turn – but
ghosts can never harm the
living with designs upon
their precious souls.
For a broken
heart, a spoken word
can hold the
secret to a twisted,
mystical suggestion that
we are not alone.
You Talk like a manic Messiah,
We don’t need a doctor or liar!
I thought that
I could be the one but
no, I’m just a man.
We want somebody to brave us, to
love, forgive us and save us!
I thought that
I could be the one but
no, I’m just a man.
Hold me, save me, never leave me.
Just as you think you’re climbing out
Your stomach will drop.
Is this another beginning? Or
A final full-stop?
You Talk like a manic Messiah,
We don’t need a doctor or liar!
I thought that
I could be the one but
no, I’m just a man.
We want somebody to brave us, to
love, forgive us and save us!
I thought that
I could be the one but
no, I’m just a man.
Hold me, save me, never leave me.
Fire or water; stranger or foe;
long drop to freedom, or too far to go;
rebellious cells or a car in the dark;
a needle; a war, or a prank in the park.
Nil by mouth; none of the above;
a shark or a pill or a man with a glove.
Time will tell; forget heaven and hell –
you can’t live forever but you can live for love.
For those that remember the Look and Read series in the early eighties (which had such programmes as 'Dark Towers'), in my opinion this music evokes those feelings of mystery and wonder. Very, very impressed. Trebör
Winter McQuinn mixes soft rock and psychedelic folk for a sound reminiscent of classic pop purveyors like Cut Worms and the Lemon Twigs. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 16, 2024