Story behind the song
This one began from seeing turtles under ice on the ponds out at the ranch. You'll see fish trying to warm up in the sun, but I hadn't seen any reptiles before. I was breaking it by throwing dirt clods on it - didn't work but left unpretty patches on the clean ice. There was a dead turtle, and a live one grabbed it and drug it into the blackness. Pretty weird.
The second stanza, well, that just blurted out all at once, pretty much. Freudian, but seemed to work.
The music was also easy once I figured out the main riff Pretty minimal, and the working title was "Creepy". Pretty much sums it up.
Lyrics
moving slow as
turtles under ice
suspended between
the shafts of light
black mud
scattered like
a pollock painting
across the frozen surface
and a black-green scar
across the bottom
slow motion to
deeper water and the darkness.
death and sex
a two-headed monster
guarding the door at night
and a darkened room behind
kick it in
or wait for entrails
and the reading to turn up right.
I am my own light.
