This song was written and recorded in the early 1990’s. The lyric was inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello and its themes of jealousy and deceit. The intensity is tempered however with a measure of hope and resolve – I hope! I used the E-mu Proteus 1 to assign all the sounds you hear on the track. This module was all the rage in the day and I hope you will agree that the sounds are cool – if not retro – to hear again today. And of course – do I need to say it?! – Thank you Todd Rundgren for the musical inspiration! While there is a shorter mix of this song somewhere (mine was lost with so much else in a fire in 2007), I chose to include the longer ending – the palette-cleanser as my friend the magical recording engineer Corey DeRushia calls it. Yeah baby!
Love
Now we live as vines in the sun
Well-intertwined
Grafted seamlessly
Our beginnings one
Grow strong within this bond
No life without you here
No life beyond
I thought that you’d never leave
Didn’t you need me too?
And now I don’t know what to believe
I’m not strong with you gone
Who?
Who was it tried to cut us apart?
Who told the lie
And led you to believe I deceived your heart?
I clutch my golden band
I feel you slipping down and through my hands
I thought that you’d never leave…
I don’t know what to believe…
We
We try to find firm ground while it rains
Confused in part
By the frightened thoughts coursing through our veins
I see behind your eyes
The words I fear one day you’ll vocalize
You’ll say
I thought that you’d never leave
Didn’t you love me too?
And now I don’t know what to believe
I’m not strong with you gone
If the child in us is wise
He knows that green-eyed monsters tell lies
It’s all disguise!
What is said and what comes between
May fester and grow jealous green
So let us keep
Our hearts swept clean
Our souls pristine
Our minds serene
No jealous green!