Monday, July 28, 2014

Close

Listen to Close:
Almost three months since a post.  Solid.  Not a record, but solid silence.

Like most lapses here, good busyness is mostly to blame.

But there is also a sense of procrastination because this is the last song I get to write about for awhile.

Fitting that it's called Close (gotta love heteronyms).

Close probably comes as close (ha!) to what I initially imagined Paper Arrows would sound like as any other song we've done.  Doubled-up fingerpicked guitar, piano, banjo, ambient key pads and a counterpoint.  Really lovely, restrained production by Darren that I've had a hard time getting on other songs.  On this one, it clicked.  I learned so much hearing how Darren nailed the production on this.  Good stuff.

Lyrically I wanted this song to play like a lullaby, a complement to the song Near (from In the Morning), but instead of the comforting someone who's afraid of sleeping I had in mind comforting someone who's afraid of death.  I've been thinking about it a lot because even though it was written in July of 2012, the last 18 months or so have been defined by death or near-death or expected death...

But that's a story for the next record.

In the meantime...

CLOSE

Go into the darkness and burn your little light
The children need a friend to get them through the night
Someone to bring the ice when fever dreams ignite
A voice to sing to them til morning birds alight

The time will come when it is done
The time will come to let go
And love will shine on your worried eyes
And in the end I'll be close

Go and get a hammer and build a little room
The children need a place to hide them from the moon
Four walls to shelter them when midnight monsters boom
A noise to comfort them when love is out of tune

The time has come when it is done
The time will come to let go
And love will shine on your worried eyes
And in the end I'll be close

jbg