Up against the wall...

[update 2006-11-11 - mp3 content corrected]

"The true revolutionary is guided by love."
- Che Guevara

Nah... it's not one of those up-against-the-wall things... but it's that disconnect between the notorious phrase of itimidation, harrassment, and implicit death threat and a story of timeless, hopeless love that fired up my creative energies... not unlike how a chemical battery generates current, I suppose.

You'll notice that there's some real ambiguity in these lyrics. I considered different ways to try to make the song less ambiguous -- but each one seemed to diminish the song, rob it of power. So I left the words more or less the way they spilled out.

You'll have to figure out for yourself what goes on in this song...


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May 26, 2006
October 31, 2005


10,000 years

Up against the wall
the moon was in her eyes
I felt her heart beat
I heard her sigh

I touched her cheek
a tear met my hand
I didn't know it then
but that tear fell to her plan

10,000 years
is not a day too long
since the world began
I've been hangin round here
waiting for you to come along

I have seen that shining light
one too many times
I have heard the angels sing
while I riddled the devil's rhymes

I have seen your eyes
burn into my soul
I have seen the truth
and I will never again be whole

10,000 years...

I'd do it all again
and still come back for more
I know how it's all gotta end
but I'll never know what it's all for

Until the end of time
there's not that long to go
I thought I knew heaven's secrets
what the hell did I know?

10,000 years
is not a day too long
since the world began
I've been hangin round here
waiting for you to come along