01/01/09 - Underwater (written by request)

track name: 01/01/09 - Underwater (written by request)
album and band name: from Kim's Thirty-One - 31 songs in 31 days - January 2009 by Vermillion Lies

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At a New Year's Eve party I listened to people tell stories of synchronicity in their lives. Then we talked about the antarctic film "Encounters at the End of the World" by Werner Herzog, featuring Henry Kaiser who I had just met three nights previous. Henry Kaiser is (among many things) a scuba diver in Antarctica and his images of dives are very beautiful. The divers call their underwater world "The Cathedral" because the ice forms beautiful arches and the light comes from above as though through stained glass.

This morning I went through the emails suggesting song topics, I found one that suggested a piano, a red head, Antarctica, and a giant squid.

Synchronicity!

It's about an octopus, not a squid, but there is a piano, a red head, and lots of ice.

Recording proved more difficult than I anticipated. I loved the song and then I hated it. I recorded it three times and then just decided it had to be good enough because I don't have all day. I have kittens to play with!

My old piano is very out of tune, but I love it.

More on my blog: kimboekbinder.blogspot.com

Trailer for Encounters at the End of the World: www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3420913945/
lyrics: With my eight arms
to swim is an art
my two eyes
and my three hearts

It's cold and it's beautiful here
where I call home
under the arctic ice
I live alone

Then one day
I saw you
I pulled you under
and watched you turn blue

Your hair like flames
around your face
in this cathedral
of water and ice

I didn't mean to drown you
I just wanted to kiss you
Underwater
Underwater
credits: from Kim's Thirty-One - 31 songs in 31 days - January 2009, released 01 January 2006
one very out of tune piano. one bewildered red head.
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