Make-Over
Words: 09-29-1993
Music: 09-29-1993
What’s It All About?
This song is all about facing your flaws, admitting your mistakes and finding the strength to — defiantly — dare change to come.
I have been a massive fuck-up at certain points in my life. When things are lowest, I sometimes find myself experiencing an almost euphoric giddiness… as if the laugh-or-cry reflex tilts way, way too far to one side. That wackiness inspired the first line of this song.
Self-discovery is a common theme in my work, both music and prose. This song is one of my many personal standards.
The version presented here was recorded to a cassette four-track in my apartment in Long Beach, California in 1994 for a limited edition cassette mini-album called “Hundred Seller.” It often started my coffeehouse acoustic sets.
Lyrics:
Save me from laughter
That hides me from the pain I should feel
Find what I’m after
And learn just what it means to be real
I missed out, I was absent
On the day the test was revealed
Now I want, want to find out
If I’m too late to make it over
Soul: I think I have it
Buried down in that bottom drawer
Wait, now I remember
The day came when I stopped wanting more
I gave up, I was tired
Don’t you judge me; I did not see you there
Now I want, now all I want
Is to see if I can make it over
Hope is not eternal
That spring runs dry as often as it flows
A dialog, internal
To see myself and find out what I know
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