Gramophonium

Powerlounge

A major thing, This began as I sat down to lunch and did some musing about my old wind-up gramophone, as food poisoning set in I spent the rest of the day lying in bed thinking of lyrics, getting up to type them in, throwing up, and going back to bed, roughly in a half hour cycle.

9 hours later I finally started to feel better and was able to hold down some food when I realised I’d written an epic. It’s a song about everything, even more direct now due to the Christchurch earthquake on Feb 22. Many of the lyrics refer to a similar quake we had on Sept 4 last year.

After the most recent quake I decided not to change the lyrics as they sit nicely (and horribly) in their new context.

I doubt I’ll every attempt such a long piece again, but it’s nice to know that I can if I want to.