About The Song: Giving the Game Away, from the album The Age of Melancholia
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ABOUT THE SONG: FOR ALL WE KNOW (CATASTROPHIC FUTURES)
One Sunday evening on a hotel balcony in Davos Switzerland I heard bells ringing from a distant church.
The sound travelled towards me and was joined by more bells ringing from other churches closer to me. More joined until the sound travelled behind the hotel where still more bells rang out until the whole valley sang a strange and haunting polyphony. This cacophony made me think about space and primordial sound: the sound of the Universe.
IMAGINING THE END OF A WORLD OF PEOPLE AND THE THEN CONTEMPORARY JOURNEY OF CASSINI AND VOYAGER AS THEY ‘DISCOVERED’ SPACE BROUGHT ME TO THINK ABOUT ANOTHER WORLD OF PEOPLE FINDING THESE ARTEFACTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.
The possibility that all that may be left of humanity is what we created (and what we destroyed) so the sense of a slow endless journey characterises the rhythm of the song. The final chord is really all the notes of an E minor scale; nothing is resolved it just drifts away.
The title suggests we really know very little about where we live and how amazingly fortunate we are to have a space to exist. And how we rather take it all for granted. For all we know we are not alone, but evidence for that seems not to stack up given the uniquely implausible set of circumstances that created life on Earth.
LYRICS
Time still pushing endlessly erodes a dim reality
Of Isaac’s measured altitudes to interstellar solitude
Drifting slowly out of sight, across the sky into the night
Departing Earth’s sweet atmosphere wider than a hemisphere
Of Isaac’s measured altitudes to interstellar solitude
Drifting slowly out of sight, across the sky into the night
Departing Earth’s sweet atmosphere wider than a hemisphere
Product of a human mind drift toward another kind
Pushes at a boundary outside the world of symmetry
Quietly through its restless gaze to analyse a milky haze
Searching in a distant past in which new futures can be cast
Pushes at a boundary outside the world of symmetry
Quietly through its restless gaze to analyse a milky haze
Searching in a distant past in which new futures can be cast
For all we know, a vessel now approaches home
For all we know, we are simply not alone
For all we know, we are simply not alone
Far and wide. A Voyager clinging fast to life
World’s collide, a hopeless case of suicide
Rising tides, the last man here turn out the light
Side by side, a new frontier fades out of sight
World’s collide, a hopeless case of suicide
Rising tides, the last man here turn out the light
Side by side, a new frontier fades out of sight
Catastrophic futures come to pass a mirrored planet held in glass.
Andrew Higgins ©
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