So I am considering—not yet wedded to, but considering—re-releasing Stars Fall Home, since it's currently all out of print and stuff, and that's no fun. But being me, I'm not willing to do this if I don't feel that I am in some way improving things with a re-release. This means a) that I will probably re-record "Sycamore Tree," to resolve some issues I have with the vocals, and b) include at least one new song, for the sake of, you know, making my lizard brain not freak out about spending time on something I've already done.
I get that. Hate seems like a pretty strong word, though.
I think of that song as being about a feeling rather than having a message. A lot of us get stuck in the place it's talking about, and feel awfully alone when we do. It's good to know others get that feeling too, and get stuck there, and I think it's good for those who aren't to be aware that so many people still are. I mean, who among us hasn't wasted at least some time hoping and waiting for the TARDIS to arrive?
But yeah, it absolutely must not be the last song in the set. We need to know our story is not done. :)
Hate is a pretty strong word, that's true. I still hate the song. I have a very strong feeling about the song, and the feeling is hatred.
I have no problem with the idea of wasting time, waiting for the TARDIS to arrive. I have big, big problems with the idea that dreaming I'm already in the TARDIS justifies wasting all the time I have.
Hate implies, to me, wishing the song had never been written, or that it would never be heard again. It articulates too much too well for me to wish something like that, and offers too good an opportunity to respond to the conclusions it draws about the situations it describes. I think it deserves to live; it just needs someone like you to follow it, because you win that argument, and following it makes you win that much harder.
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October 3 2011, 18:10:18 UTC 5 years ago
October 4 2011, 01:03:48 UTC 5 years ago
I think of that song as being about a feeling rather than having a message. A lot of us get stuck in the place it's talking about, and feel awfully alone when we do. It's good to know others get that feeling too, and get stuck there, and I think it's good for those who aren't to be aware that so many people still are. I mean, who among us hasn't wasted at least some time hoping and waiting for the TARDIS to arrive?
But yeah, it absolutely must not be the last song in the set. We need to know our story is not done. :)
October 4 2011, 01:14:50 UTC 5 years ago
I have no problem with the idea of wasting time, waiting for the TARDIS to arrive. I have big, big problems with the idea that dreaming I'm already in the TARDIS justifies wasting all the time I have.
October 5 2011, 10:57:52 UTC 5 years ago