Orinoco March Blog 2015 “If we are from the same matter as stars than we must be all STARS”
Yes I know, I am a month late? I should have done a blog in February but never did, but does February really deserve a blog.
Well it does because my daughter Pippa is born in February, however I bet the other months defiantly don’t think so. I bet they talk behind it’s back like say January and December.
“Look at February it gets away with only 28 days of work, and every fourth year it turns up for an extra day to make 29, and it still gets to be called a month of the year. And here we are slaving away with 31 days, and we have Christmas and New Years it’s just not fair.”
Yep what an excuse for not doing a Feb blog.
Anyway for this blog I might as well tackle the song Soul Breath and how it all came about.
The music came about while rehearsing in the rooms that we thought was going to burn down. Lucky for us they never went up in smoke the first time we baled on it, so as brave tin soldiers we stared fear down and hired a room.
I am not sure whether it was gig we were rehearsing for or whether we just got together for a jam, blahhh details, details, never a big one for detail. It was break between playing our completed songs, and I just started playing the main riff on the guitar. Everyone else jumped in, and we had the song down by the time we left the studio. The only changes in studio was just the arrangement of the chorus and pre-chorus. I think it was and still is the most painless song we had ever written as a group of four.
What is the song about?
I am so glad you asked. (Yes I heard you ask, so don’t say you didn’t ask, because I know you did?)
The song is about coffee. That’s right coffee. I use to work in a large manufacturing company actually so did Beau and Roy, and at the time there was some cost cutting to be done so the first thing we looked at was coffee. We decided if the production guys had to drink normal instant coffee then so should all the other office workers. Well that never worked out too well, because there were complaints straight away. So in the end we still had to have two separate coffee’s and the cheap and the more expensive. That was where the chorus line came from, Soul Breath meaning the guys asking for the good coffee thought they were a little bit better than the other workers. “Instead, drop dead, that is how we are even” is not wishing for these people to die, it was just to say death is the great leveller.
The verses are really just a story of the girl who married for money and thought that her life would be great. Bullet Boy is about how young men still put themselves in danger, this includes things that I did when I was young because at a certain age we really think we are bullet proof.
There is also a line that says “Look at you now your in the way”. This came from a conversation around a table when we began discussing the most recent Australian solider to die in one of middle eastern wars. At the time an ex-serviceman was sitting in on the conversation and he jumped in with,
“He only has himself to blame because he got in the way.”
This was later followed up by him saying this the Australian dark humour that helped them grieve the loss of one of their mates. So it something I just haven’t forgotten.
Anyway I think this will do to send you off to sleep.
Until next time
Stay Safe.