Curving and Something Else

richaux

Liner Notes
“Curving and Something Else” has ended up being about memory loss, in the bleak, end-of-life, Alzheimer’s way.

I’m not a a sufferer (yet!), just an observer. I write songs in this melancholic style … which requires an sympathetic lyric. The song did start as something more upbeat but, um, evolved.

Anyway, the title is from the “Forgetting Curve” (the lesser known sibling of the “Learning Curve”) and then something forgotten.

Technically, it’s recorded in Cubase using Halion, Reason, Vocaloid, LABS, BBC et al. synths. Effects from Cubase and Reason stacks. Mastering with stock Cubase components.

Lyrics
There’s a crisis now
We’re not to know
How could we tell when we’re drifting

Yet people keep saying “hello”
The energy’s gone
And the lights are growing rather dim

Feel with my heart
That all is broken now
They will not survive
And we all know why

I feel with my heart
That all is broken now
They will not survive
It’s not a happy song, no, no

There’s a crisis now
We’re not to know
How could we tell: we we’re drifting

Yet people keep saying “hello”
The energy’s gone
And the lights are growing rather dim

There’s a crisis now
Clear the streets and how
It’s the only way that we’ll get through

Are you breathing now?
Kick those legs and shout
It’s the only way to get it through

There’s a crisis now
We’re not to know
How could we tell when we’re drifting

Yet people keep saying “hello”
The energy’s gone
And the lights are growing rather dim