The Home Stretch
The Home Stretch
Haven't loaded a Modo blog for too long, so here is something scratched together on a sunny deck. . System14 is alive and traffic is increasing as rush hour approaches. Whoops. That's the Rush Hour Traffic Report. I live in Calgary, Alberta and our summer is often short and volatile. Something about those damn Rocky Mountains lurking an hour to the west. So clean air and a warm patio is priority one and music begins in the autumn. But these are some new lyrics that popped out as this lazy one lounged on a little deck.
Make my diamond shine
You can throw away the lifeline
What can take the place of, those little things you so love
The nausea it comes and goes
She told me, only a woman could know
How it feels to lose yourself within
So I’m floating in the water waiting for the end of the
world.
Living for each moment
Becoming Misha McDonut
Memorize what never applies
Memorize the best lies
I’ve always denied my gift of sight
The Lord brought me crying into the light
And just for a moment I felt it again
Bound by one purpose wrapped by a single chain
So I’m floating in the water waiting for the end of the
world.
This lyric is about nostalgia for the moment of birth. As
one cynic said, the moment you emerge you begin the inexorable grind toward
your demise. I am much more optimistic than that, but understand the reasoning.
As another Modo song once said
Life is short but the days drag on
And waiting’s just too hard to swallow
I’m a proud and stubborn man
But just one kiss and I’ll follow.
Or perhaps the Beatles with, “It’s a long and winding road,
that leads to your door.” There as many ways to write it as people to say it.
That’s why we tart it up in these allusions. If the lyric read,
You’re born
You fart around for a while
You die
It would be a pretty short and boring song…haha. Make the most of your summer everyone. And thanks for listening. And that's it. My rare muse upon mortality and the price of living.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6v8EH5UZVNScZgqFCA05my?si=8zLqXjNjSf2_CnfXFYlKTw
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