Soundtrack – Chapter 14: North of Sunset
June 8, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »New song: “A Lie of Degrees.” As time goes on and I get deeper into writing and planning The American Book of the Dead Part II – which takes place in the present day, not 20 years into the future – this songwriting project is becoming a sort of rock opera of both books. Which means it’s getting more autobiographical about things in the here and now. The first book was basically written while my marriage was coming apart. So the “end of the world” isn’t just a world thing.
Strangely enough, found out yesterday that my divorce was finalized. I am divorced. If you listen to my Alterati interview, I reveal that I was once a heroin addict. So happens it was with my then girlfriend, now ex-wife. Not the greatest foundation for a relationship. So this song is in part a companion to the song Shallow Lips. Lyrics to that song go:
I went on holiday to a place not far away from home
Here we go on and on
And then on Saturday, same place I went away, alone…
There might not come a day when I meet the God who made my soul
So I’ll buy it for a song
And like the human race I don’t want to be a waste of love
So I’ll breathe it all day long
Lyrics to this one:
I went on holiday
Where I slept in half the day
And dreamt I was awake
In a world uncracked and safe at home
We wait at home through hot wars and cold
To say that isn’t so is a lie of degrees
And when we’re satisfied we write, “The End.”
When we’re unsatisfied we write, “The End.”
But there’s no end. Yeah, there’s no end.
I wrote about the day
I ran in the human race
And beat out show and place
To be awarded our unwasted love
mp3 link: A Lie of Degrees
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