My first live video...
This vid was shot at the Tim Harris Album Launch in 2007.. and now finally released.
Lyric Series.10 (The Beach)
I built this song around the metaphor of a
falling star. Falling stars are a long way away, they’re beautiful, they’re
isolated, and they break up- sounds to me like a long distance relationship.
The parallels are almost continuous. You also see them at night, when you’re
alone on the Beach.
So I wrote this song, originally called
‘The Beach”. There are as many beach metaphors as star metaphors. That’s
because the conversation with the girl actually unfolded on a beach.
The moment was real, the story half real.
Sometimes I take not so intense situations, and turn them into big deals.
Songwriting is like acting sometimes, you have to be larger than life. This is
not my usual methodology.. Every other song on my album ‘Based on’ is very
real.
“And
there’s nothing sweet about this so-called ‘bittersweet’ goodbye”.
- The goodbye wasn’t bitter at all, but I
wanted this line in the song.
The girl is the star, or at least, she
wants to be a star.. off to make it big in the real world.. leaving me behind
to watch from a distance. So she gets in the plane and heads for the sky. We
used to look into each other’s eyes- and we don’t any more.
When a star falls, it doesn’t really affect
us.. it all happens so far away. In some ways though, it’s a big deal.
The ocean is just a fine line.. This is the
horizon.. a fine line between me and her. She tells me to stay in touch, follow
her moves. But it’s like following footprints in the sand. Eventually the trail
will stop. And I am left behind.
2 versions of this song:
The Acoustic Version on ‘Based On’
And the Electric Version on ‘A True Dream’
The only song I’ve ever released twice.
(Omitted 4th verse in version 2:
Let it go, I understand
But now I’ve gotta over throw
All that I’d hoped and planned
Cause a path that’s drawn in sand won’t
last
And I am left behind.)
Falling Stars are Breaking Up
She wants to go
Looking alone for something
And I don’t know
What she’s gonna find
Now she’s all alone
When engines drone
And take her for the sky
We don’t see eye to eye
Overthrow all of the plans we’re making
Cross fade into another life
And there’s nothing sweet
About this so called ‘bittersweet’ goodbye
We don’t see eye to eye
Falling stars don’t mean that much
When you’re a world away they look so beautiful
Still they’re breaking up like us
And they’re alone without a friend to keep ‘em
warm
She believes the ocean’s just a fine line
Feeding me to follow her with the tide
But a path that’s drawn in sand won’t last
And I am left behind
We don’t see eye to eye
But I’m gonna wait a beat for her
When she’s on satellite delay
And I’m gonna be the beach for her
When she comes home to me I pray
Falling Stars
(From
A True Dream) Listen on my myspace profile.
Falling stars breaking up
She wants to go, She wants a change
She used to have a thing for life
She wants it back again
Now she’s all alone when engines drone and take her
for the sky
She’s on the rise
Still we don’t see eye to eye
When she returns I’ll know she’s mine
But she’s become a star up there and she’s taking
her time
Still there’s nothing sweet about this so called
‘bittersweet’ goodbye
Are we farther away than we thought?
Are we stars?
Are we starting to fall?
She says to me the ocean’s just a fine line
In between looking into her eyes
Now I’m staring out to sea
But I can’t see what she means tonight
But I’m gonna wait a beat for her when she’s on
satellite delay
And I’m gonna be the beach for her when she comes
home to me I pray