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1.  take me to the sun

2.  not the one

3.  something has got to you

4.  abundant lack of motivation

5.  vulnerable

5.  gotta give it up

7.  it’s not funny

8.  habit

9.  lovely lady

can’t go

listen to this song

 

i knew you like the back of my hand

i'd rather trust a reading of my palm instead

i know you'd like to think we're friends

but you're a distant solar system overhead

and i know, i can't go

 

feeling like a fallen flea

i search the ground you walk on for some company

feeling if i feel my legs

paralyzed emotions got the best of me

and i know, i can't go

 

i wish that i could go inside

a state of mind to save me from this love affair

i hope i find a perfect ride

the kind that won't break down or go beyond repair

but i know, i can't go

     Ah....  Summer of '95.  Most gut wrenching, immobilizing time of my life.  It's true what they say when you get your heart trampled on: "Never again."

 

     This song marks the unofficial end of the album intended song cycle.  Along with the busker story, layout, and photography, I was hoping to create a movie of sorts.  All the songs leading up to this one are distinct in theme, key, and flavor.  Like chapters or different scenes.

 

     Outtakes aside, if the record only went up to this track, and you were to put the disc on replay, so to speak, the "movie" would cycle from despair back to hope; breakdown being the theme that clasps the beginning and the end.  Here the breakdown is methaporical and lead to misery, while in Take Me To the Sun, the breakdown was actual and lead to hope.

 

     The "outtakes" are to be considered extra footage, if you will.  The last two tracks were just as much a part of the session as the titles listed on the CD, but when it came time to putting it all together, I felt they already shared themes expressed in my "movie"; hence, I designated them as outtakes.  This also explains why I opted to include a lengthy pause between Can't Go and the outtakes.

 

Siobhan.  Thank you for this song.

outtakes