The Drift
Words: 05-27-30-1994
Music: 05-27-30-1994
What’s It All About?
This musically simple song always proved a vocal challenge for me — the peak moment of the chorus requires just the right pacing of my breathing, and a mental shift to make sure I time the high note just right. I didn’t always succeed. I don’t even quite succeed on he version below, which is from my “Hundred Seller” album, which was recorded direct to cassette tape four-track in my apartment in Long Beach, California in 1994.
The song came after listening to a lot of Lyle Lovett, and was certainly influenced by him. Of course the end result came out like something completely different.
Lyrics:
Have you ever felt your heart break
For no reason at all
When hope no longer holds it in its place
And it crumbles when it falls
Have you ever felt your tears come
Streaming from your eyes
While the strangers that you stand among
Stare and wonder why you cry
I guess there comes a time
The pain takes its toll
And you’ve been holding on for so long
You just have to let it go
Have you ever felt your soul drift
To just outside of you
No more room in you for it to fit
No room left in you for you
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