Aaaaaaaaand I’m back! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Welcome to the recent influx of Thai podcastees. Here’s hoping you’re not robots.
This weeks song has been in the repetoire for a few years now (for a live version, click here), and is a rare example of a song that wrote itself.
In fact, I don’t think I could have avoided writing it; it forced itself from me like some kind of metaphorical lightning baby. Though ostensibly a sad song (there were tears at time of writing), it is truly life affirming to care about something (and someone) to such an extent, and in my numbest, most reclusive and robotic moments, playing it reminds me that I am a squishy humanoid after all.
Eek is one of my proudest moments, lyrically, and I would love to record it with a full band one day!
Download:
Eek (3.5 MiB, 8 hits)
Lyrics:
I knew a girl, she knew me
socially, not biblically
but we were very close
she said she liked me most
and the talk was so free
interrupting the TV
the talk was so free
I remember laughter in a near deserted bar
and thinking, ‘How can you not know how wonderful you are?’
and feeling like a planet orbiting a star
before gravity smothers its heart
She came to see me before her flight
we drank a lot of vodka and we talked all night
avoiding the mines
deployed between the lines
as we discussed, how the world is so unjust
just so unjust
Her ticket was booked, I knew when she’d depart
but somehow when she said goodbye it almost broke my heart
I had not prepared
I guess I was just scared
Oh so frightened to face
such an ugly waste
a hideous waste
Are we just good friends or did we lead each other on
We have so much in common but the timing was all wrong
The moments we each cried
did not coincide
Yeah, she’d wept for me once
she beat me by a month
but once was enough
