Story Behind The Song
This song is about those nights at 3 a.m. when you're thinking about who you are and where your life is going. It's about uncertainty in everything but yourself. It's about the tenuous sense that you have to meet all the elements of your life with lucid calm or lose control. It about perfect quiet, balanced on the edge of a knife. It's about life on the fulcrum of the scales.
Song Description
A contemplative slow groove with a cool shimmery feel and a hypnotic, rhythmic balance.
| Song Length |
5:34 |
Genre |
Rock - General |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Cool, Relaxed |
Subject |
Art, Sculpture, Snow |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
The sidewalk glows beneath my feet
The fires of Hell must be particularly hot tonight
The sky is mute above my head
The revelry of angels must be particularly reserved tonight
It makes me wonder if someone died.
I spy an aluminum smile in the yellow pool of a street light
I spy a lonely shine in the darkened hollow of the moon's eye
I am very pleased to meet the water's edge
Why do hallways lengthen as I travel them
Why do troubles strengthen as I battle them
It makes me sometimes, makes me sometimes
Takes me sometime to figure out
Just what I've got and what I want right now
And I meet my life like the fire meets the clay
And I greet the night by borrowing the day
That's my way
I am very pleased to meet the water's edge