Monthly Archives: May 2006

I’ve seen that shining light… one too many times

10,000 Years
Weren’t we just talking (however briefly) about Fate?

Once you give causality an inch, it seems, like ice-nine, to take over your whole cosmology.

Anyhow, I’ve always thought dimestore metaphysics makes for great pop music and this song is a gesture in that direction, spun with a little ambiguous pronoun play.

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

Ten billion stars go on forever

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A Girl Named October

Fate’s a funny thing.

I guess.

previous AYoS version sept 22

A GIRL NAMED OCTOBER

I couldn’t help fall
for a girl named October
her eyes like the sky
when the day’s almost over
her voice like a song
you almost remember
from some other life
some other forever

Why did I lie
why did I say — I didn’t love her
I knew just what that meant
I knew right there and then
that it was over…

ten thousand times
I thought that I might see her
a million nights I lay awake
and remembered
ten billion stars
go on forever
not one chance
we could stay together

Why did I lie
why did I say — I didn’t love her
I knew just what that meant
I knew right there and then
that it was over…

All those pretty dollhouses going up in flames…

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When Ashley Said Goodbye

There was a point when I realized the attractive, smart, funny young adults around me had been named by my generation (yeah, talkin’ ’bout that generation).

Someplace in the early 90’s I realized all the pretty girls were named Ashley and Taylor and Sarah — all the names girls I went to college with said they were going to name their daughters — and I felt kind of old.

previous AYoS version 29 September

When Ashley Said Goodbye

Amber said hello when Ashley said good-bye
I said hold on but there’s no wondering why
when love wants in, love can knock down yer door

I said Amber, I think this is forever
she said baby you’re yanking on my tether
when all is said and done love will even up the score

Love will fool ya — love can kill ya
Love is all that love can give ya
and still you keep coming back for more

Love is funny — love is cruel
Love’ll make Einstein act just like a fool
Love’ll make a tomcat dive in-a swimin pool

All these toys all these games
all these pretty dollhouses going up in flames
if you play around enough you know you’re gonna get burned

Love will fool ya — love can kill ya
Love is all that love can give ya
and still you keep coming back for more

I might be a virus on your PC — I might be a ghost on your TV

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I might be the wind, I might be the sea...

As I mentioned when I posted the previous AYoS version of this song at the beginning of the year, I feel like, in a sense, I wrote it in collaboration with my late pal, Rick Routhier.

Uh… after he’d passed on.

It is, after all, a song which has as its central metaphor reincarnation and endless love. So it’s somehow fitting…

Anyhow, I’m taking credit for the line about virus-on-your-pc, since Rick was one of those people who had only recently started to feel guilty about not caring about computers when he died after a short, then-mysterious illness in the early 90s. (We later found he had had an undiagnosed case of cancer.) But it’s entirely possible he came back with the ghost-on-your-TV line — which is, after all, kinda nice in a formalist sort of way.

I’m pretty sure Rick believed in reincarnation. I’m not so sure I do — Rick’s postmortal contributions to this song notwithstanding. After all, a ghostly interaction does not in itself support the idea of reincarnation. Let’s be realisitc, here.

Anyhow…

previous AYoS verision
January 17, 2006

I Might Be the Wind

I might be this and I might be that
I might be a success or I might be flat
I might be them, I might be you
I might be the desert or the sky so blue

but wherever I go, whatever I do
I’ll never, ever stop loving you

I might be the wind, I might be the sea
I might be deep space for eternity
I might be a dog, I might be a cat
I might be the chair, where sharon stone sat

but wherever I go, whatever I do
I’ll never, ever stop loving you

I might be a virus in your PC
I might be a ghost on your TV
I might be a shadow where no shadow should
or a whisper from nowhere
that you almost understood

but wherever I go, whatever I do
I’ll never, ever stop loving you