In the loud sections I'm trying very hard to combine two seperate rythmic themes. I think it worked. That's what I like best about this one.
We are I
and I are we
Together we are company
Without us there is only me
Narcissist though I may be
Hear me well - hear me through
and I will do the same for you
Story behind the song
This is a conversation about 20 years ago.
Verbatim:
"Ruben, I just want to fly"
"In a plane?"
"No"
"Like a bird?"
I nodded. Ruben nodded. We went back to work.
Lyrics
Ruben Lopez
It was futile and mundane
It was a little like watching your own blood slowly drain
But Ruben Lopez with his mexican wit
was keeping me in the game
He had a round mexican wit
that kept me from going insane
But still, I was quite done in
and jumping right out of my skin
I turned to him and without knowing why
I said, "Ruben, I just want to fly"
He had a laboring mexican wit
that told him the reason why
But to make it square in his brain
Ruben had to ask me, "In a plane?"
I said, "NO!" cause that seemed absurd
so Ruben asked quite astutely, "Like a bird?"
it was a round, laboring mexican epiphany
and Ruben had gotten the word
So we nodded together
as if solving a riddle
To have said so much to each other
yet uttered so little
Would the world be much better
if always turned out this way
that I knew what the other guy was feeling
without having so much to say
I should do more with the background vocals but I've been stuck for a while. I'll do the lead vocal over maybe once I have the house to myself.
Zlurgh
