Totally not the song I meant to write this week. Given the assignment, I wanted to do something fun, quirky, irreverent. Not what I ended up with at all, but hey, you've got to follow the muse. I've been listening to a lot of contemporary bands like The War on Drugs that are partially giving a nod to 80's bands like The Waterboys, with sprawling anthems that are somehow part Springsteen and part Simple Minds. Anyway, that's what was in my mind at the time. The lyrics are useless, but that was enabled by the assignment. Might just write some real lyrics to this and see what happens.
lyrics
If you can sail an empty ocean
if you keep reaching for the sea
if there’s a center of contention
in a blindness no one sees
I would be your fondest servant
you can find me on my knees
always faking fevers fervent
never taking harmonies
take this weight
mounds of clay
build your temple
this gramophone
turns flesh to stone
seems so simple
bury my heart
please don’t start
like the last time
we remembered
please play your part
stay on chart
like the last day
of December
for every moment that you linger
you will sink in shifting sands
you will quickly take me with you
I will follow your command
and when we've sealed ourselves inside us
in an airtight chamber's night
there will be no final moment
there will be no dawn's first light
take this weight
mounds of clay
build your temple
this gramophone
turns flesh to stone
seems so simple
bury my heart
please don’t start
like the last time
we remembered
please play your part
stay on chart
like the last day
of December
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