Get Behind Me Wednesday

Midweek blues.

So little sleep.

Hot weather.

Had a brief, hot, but good... rehearsal (is that what you thought I was going to say?) last night. Worked on a new song, entitled "Bright Dark Times." I wrote it earlier this year and we just haven't had time to really dig in and start putting it together. By the end of rehearsal, we had a reasonable working version of it to play through, and had already added a few nice variations to the arrangement, something we're getting a lot better at. In this tune it came out of something as simple as both Doc and Barret hearing my phrasing in a different way than I intended, changing their parts, and everybody liking the resulting "mistake" better than the original way I wrote it.

 BRIGHT DARK TIMES Things are looking up but you said that yesterday Then it all blew up, then it all went away And in its place, the smoke's a memory The punchline to a joke that's on you Chorus: What you gonna do when they turn their backs on you? What you gonna do when they turn their backs on you? What you gonna do when they turn their guns on you? What you gonna do? And now the days turn into more than you can stand And every midnight lamp you burn marks you with a brand The ashes fall in time, the nausea comes in waves But if music's mercy than we'll all be saved Chorus Bridge: Hey Don't fade away Hey The night will turn to day Hey Don't slip away Hey Chorus

I like these lyrics... the chorus looks really stupid when written out, but it works much better when sung. I kind of pinched it from a Magnolia Electric Company tune. The song's about hope in dark places I guess...

To paraphrase David Byrne and a bunch of others: the greenest grass grows by the shithouse.

 jbg