A heart is fish)) began as a short poem that lived on my dusty desk for a long long time. Here it is.
(((( A heart is a fish swimming in tears
Welling in our eyes and falling to the feet of men and their meaning. ))))
At some point I thought it was valuable enough to rework it into a larger something or other and molded a mood around it that kept remarkably close to what I wanted it to be. I thought I might make it feel like a lost Donovan track or something and hung all the sounds carefully around the new lyrics. I remember this song took a lot of mental energy to record and mixing it down took forever. I think it's moody and that fact alone increases the powers of gravity on the studio. The drum sticks get heavy and I'm sure I need a soda.
lyrics
I can't keep track of time
I'm paranoid and so am I
I'm terrified of water
These days these days these days
A jumbo jet puts a tail in the sky
I satellite goes floating by
I don't feel very modern
These days these days these days
A heart is a fish
Swimming in tears
That wells in our eyes
While our precious years swim away...swim away.. Swim away
I'll pass on the key of life
With rules which you alone apply
We all expect the overmind
But the things we do just don't consign
And I can fill the room....and I could fill the room
And I could fill a room.....with my blood soaked mind yea
I could fill the room.... And I could fill the room
I could fill the room... With my blood soaked mind
With my blood soaked mind..with my blood soaked line....
A heart is a fish
Swimming in tears
They well in our eyes
While our precious years swim away...you know they swim away..oh yea
They always swim away... Oh yea....
Always swim away..
So I have a wish
And I have a fear
Standing in line
And I wish you were here
Well what can I say
And how should I seem
You think I'm awake
I live in a dream.. Swim away... O.k. .....I'd like to swim away....o.k.
I'd like to swim away.. O.k. . . Swim away
credits
from On The Shine,
released October 2, 2012
Brandon Earl Bristow
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