This song is about various hugely emotive subjects.
1. Suicide
2. Sudden loss
3. Survivor's guilt
4. Love and friendship
Recently I stumbled across a website which contains obituaries of MySpace members, and links to their profiles. Reading through the stories deeply affected me.
Life is extremely fragile. I have had various experiences during my life which have taught me so. In fact I grew up believing that life was a blessing to me. As a newborn baby a gastroenteritis infection spread throughout the ward I was in, killing the vast majority of newborns around me. Is life random? Is our destiny preset? Such questions have plagued me throughout my life.
The fact that I've had the tag of "spared" hanging over my life right from the beginning has meant that my life has been an endless quest to find out why.
Death is such a weighty subject, particularly sudden death. A slight change of routine can result in death or survival. A case in point is a story from the London bombings on July 7th 2005. One lady was killed because she spent an extra few minutes in bed with her partner telling him how much she loved him. She missed her normal train, and ended up being caught up in the bomb blasts. Survivors who are saved by a slight change of routine are often haunted now by each decision they take.
"Oak Creek Angels" is dedicated to anyone who has suffered the sudden loss of a loved one. Those who are left behind have so many conflicting emotions, guilt, regret, and helplessness. It is also dedicated to those who feel so abandoned by all of those "close" to them that they see no way out of their troubles.
Next time I'll try to write a happier song, haha :)
Dave
I've added the lyrics below if you want to read them :)
