80km
80KM (full studio version)
80KM (acoustic version)
Hurt minds won’t see other means. To find heaven, lies, loss alone lead.
But tonight, it’s just you and me. We’ll bind and divide four from each three.
A true night’s morning. Such beauty a sight could be.
Borne light flashing black as the riders lead.
Nothing so lonely. Save, deep the ocean.
Bold knives falling free.
Sell off the air I breathe.
Sow in the sin and seed.
Truth hides in rushes and reeds. Keep still to define what you’ll envy.
This life’s like the pulling of teeth. Grief, rearing a smile; full and empty.
A true knight’s mourning. Such doubtful to taste and see.
Bold knives flashing, cuts back with a silent scream.
Nothing so lovely. Save, deep the ocean.
Bold steel falling free.
Sell off the air I breathe. - the heir I breed.
Sow in the sin and seed.
I set up the spire’s peak.
The sun and the air is he. - the son and the heir
Now, the god of fear runs free.
WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?
In my opinion, I ultimately failed to achieve the lyrical goal set for this tune. I was attempting to write a comprehensible lyrical narrative that would also simultaneously work either within its subtext or through the use of homonyms as a different meaning. In other words, I was trying to give the same set of lyrics two or more meanings. Things like the “sun and the air is he” can be read as “the son and the heir is he” - “sell off the air/heir I breathe/breed” or “sow in the sin and seed” as “sow in dissent and seethe”. Other double meanings were all over the song’s lyrical roadmap but I scrapped most of them in favor of trying to make it, overall, more concise and intelligible. The end result is vagary within the lyrical content and a scraped double meaning idea tossed in the creative graveyard.. But I do think the ambivalent lyrics add to the already haunting quality of the song. The title is wordplay based on the original title which was, "A True Knight's Mourning". For shorthand, "A True Knight's Mourning" was shortened to "ATKM", which morphed into "80KM" Musically, it was written originally as a fairly simple guitar riff in E minor. The song is comprised of guitar chords that are in the style of Blackbird by the Beatles. Despite the lack of success in the original lyrical idea, I believe this to be one of the best songs I’ve written. It appears twice on OCDH as proof.