Story Behind The Song

One of the greatest things about our history together is the chemistry we have as a group, though it's sort of a chicken and egg thing. Have we been playing together so long because of the chemistry or do we have the chemistry because we've been playing so long. Whichever it is, it manifests itself through the music. One really good example of this is "Poetry in Motion". The song was written over the course of two rehearsals, but the main harmonic, melodic and most of the lyrical structures were all created spontaneously. The pianist began playing the staccato quarter-note piano part and the drummer immediately jumped in with the driving drum part. Then the vocalists starting singing together in harmony the exact melodies that are in the finished product. After one verse the bass player began playing the contrapuntal bass line and that stuck as a building element in the final product as well. Many of the final lyrics were spontaneously sung in the first playing. The legato middle section, double chorus and some lyrics were added in the second rehearsal and the song was completed.

Song Description

The most interesting part about this song lyrically is that it is made up almost entirely of our song titles. Each line contains at least one song title and many have two. Some of the songs are older, some are on the current CD and some are future songs. Some of the future songs are already completed and others are in various stages of their creation. We also noticed that the story created by all the song titles is about the way we write songs. So it's a song we wrote using all of our song titles about the way we write songs. In the life of the story's protagonist, each of these song titles represent one of life's milestones. As song writers, we see each song we create as a kind of marker, a way of memorializing an experience, an idea, and event or a feeling. So in this way, the song titles are a list of life experiences. It is as if our protagonist is collecting himself introspectively, recounting his life....past, present and future....in an effort to embolden himself to take on his inevitable journey, just as anyone might in the face of great change. His life is flashing before his eyes.

Lyrics

It's like poetry in motion
It's like the back of my hand
Here we are in the middle again
I don't think I will never understand

Don't walk away from the needle
For we are already home
Do you remember the counting of the days
And if you don't how do you ever really know

I haven't had the heart to tell you
Why I am the way I am today
Am I living a life that I can see

I took a trip to the church shoppe
It was a rainy day
I bought a mask to conceal me
I want to live my life without shame

I went with no hesitation
I went disguised in blue
I've got a new religion in my life
And and I don't feel like you want me to

I haven't had the heart to tell you
Why I am the way I am today
Am I living a life that I can see

Ignore me if you want I'll be just fine
It just don't matter to me
Your selfish song will never be forgotten
But I still wonder when will you be with me

I haven't had the heart to tell you
Why I am the way I am today
Am I living a life that I can see
There was a time we were young and free
And we were waiting to be like Phineas Free
Am I living a life that I can see