It fuses two of my usual themes, death and space hardware.
I'm pitching it well within my personal niche...
I think this is another song that really needs to be done on an electric guitar with a full arrangement behind it, I'm not convinced it works on its own. Whaddyareckon?
This afternoon I have learnt some things.
1) Making the time to write new songs is good, I should do more of it
2) When squeezing seventeen syllables into a line it's best to actually learn the line before trying to sing it.
3) I need a haircut
4) Chocolate tart is good. *
Here are the unmangled lyrics:
And I can see the headlights
on the road as we pass by overhead
Some distant automaton calls
numbers into the atmosphere
And they are lost, they are
all just lost
And who's going to find us
now? Who's going to help us now?
so we keep sending out a few
hundred letters to the dead
all the while wondering if
some of the signal's messing with our head
So when you find that we're
falling this far
Who's going to help us now?
Who's going to want to help us now?
I don’t want to rot, I don’t
want to burn
Spare me from the sea
Send me up with the silent
satellites, One more piece of space debris
So we settle into circles
behind the wheels of dying cars.
There’s always time for one
more drink before it gets dark
And we are lost. We are all
so lost.
And who's going to find us
now? Who's going to help us now?
And who's going to find us
now? Who's going to help us now?
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
I don’t want to rot, I don’t
want to burn
Spare me from the sea
Send me up with the silent
satellites, One more piece of space debris
Last night I dreamt of blood.
I dreamt of a man with a gun
and a time when that wasn't enough.
And he was lost, he was still
so lost
And who's going to help him
now? How’re you going to help him now?
I don’t want to rot, I don’t
want to burn
Spare me from the sea
Send me up with the silent
satellites, One more piece of space debris
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
Hold on steady, stay strong,
see the light, here’s the dawn,
* To be fair, I knew this before and it's really not related to the rest of the blog.