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Apr 10 09 7:22 PM
Glow Worm
Happenstance
Most chance events and meetings are not particularly fascinating. If you do the math, you can pretty much work out the probability of that event, so there's no mystery there. Most births and deaths are not mysterious, but then there is that small percentage of very peculiar happenstance and cursed destiny that is mysterious. I think Steve is pertaining to that unaccountable minority in this song. This makes sense, and it fits in perfectly with the mystery surrounding the number 23. Think it once, you plant the seed. One is incidental to 2 and 3. Alone it remains unattached to anything, but doubled - think it twice, you grow the need - it's generating [something]. Think it thrice, you summon the deed. But how, and why, you ask? After all, you really didn't do anything but think. Depending on the thought/s, sometimes thinking can be worse than not thinking.
Words and Voices
Vocal execution is outstanding on this track. Steve's vocals are stunning. The key he's singing in brings out the rich, velvety qualities of his timbre. The instruments behind him play all the right notes at just the right volume, supporting his voice. Articulation is great - clear with strong phrasing - and emotionality is sincere, therefore, powerful and convincing. Marty, too, does well on the secondary vocals. He tunes in to the sensitivities of the piece, and he perfectly understands his role as the voice of the primary singer's thoughts. He sings a series of powerful soliloquies. Just as thoughts are heard as whispers in the mind, intoned in a chant-like manner, he whispers and chants his solo and interjected lines with extreme sensitivity. Tim (Is it Tim?), on the third vocal line, gleams and echoes the urgency of [summoning] the deed very effectively.
Three voices,
Voice 1: the idea;
Voice 2: the desire, and
Voice 3: the urgency,
asking thrice:
I should take some time Really make you mine
I should take some space Be with you some place
I should take some chance Given happenstance.
I should take some time, space and chance to be with you and really make you mine. After all, it's a given: a chance given.
Was it preordained: destined to be given? Or was it summoned? Your life is given and taken away. These events are predetermined. Everything in-between is happenstance plus 'some'. Pretty much you make your own destiny; and then other people, and the forces of nature, plus 'some', interfere with it. Fascinating, isn't it?
Music and Musicianship
The levitating [light] and cascading [darker] melodies correspond with and support the voices featured: broad and upturned for voice one, and confined and inverted for voices two and three. Beautifully simple BEAUTIFUL melodies played impeccably and with so much feel. The musicianship is truly flawless. A solo lead guitar drifts about - channelling and transmitting, up and over, and between and under - and then it gives way to the final sung declaration. The lead guitar re-enters and travels up high to the PRIZED event: orchestrated happenstance.
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