When rumors of aliens were true
When I found out one of them was you
Bought fortunes from carnival seers, saw them through
Soon, a light on...
Stand up, turn and face me
Believe what you believe
Don't just stand (their/there) suffering
Talking about your freedom
Soon, a light on...
Soon my doubles will pull off all of my stunts
Water and solutions
Fires left ablaze, pleasure in the problems
If I could give them all away, what's left for me?
Define G-d is all I want
To treat my love as me
Soon, a light on...
In all the madness, I forgot that today is the 22nd anniversary of an album I was a part of making, called Water & Solutions. Here's me in my little apt. singing the title track into my phone. I'm so happy that I still enjoy the songs sonically, and even moreso lyrically. This song is one of the more obtuse ones. I wasn't sure what it was about when it arrived, and it changes all the time, and it feels real apropos right now. I'm thinking about the crisis of trust, the uneasy future, my (sometimes desperate) yearning for answers and safety, and trying to find the Light in all of it. I guess it's my inspirational apocalypse jam or something. Anyway, I wanted to post this before the day was done. Gonna run to the post office to drop today's orders off. Oh yea, I'm also incredibly grateful not to be on tour right now, and thinking lots about fellow working artists whose lives and livelihoods are feeling pretty fragile right now with all the canceled fests & tours (and of course I think those cancellations are the right thing to do). Please support them, please support me, please support each other.
ps - The pic is from a sweet lil bday show I flew up to Seattle for this past weekend. We rocked in a restaurant. I've known Erik for 20-ish years through the music, and it was great to see him, and be with his friends & family who braved the virus risks responsibly to spend some time together. This was one of the songs he really wanted to hear, and it felt great to sing it there, and it did just now, and as long as it keeps feeling right, I'll keep singing it. Thanks forever for listening & caring.