Story Behind The Song

When we were going through our song list to decide on which songs to use on our CD, "Memoirs", a number of factors came into play. A lot of it had to do with the lyrical content and how the 10 songs would fit together to make a cohesive work. Some of it had to do with the style of the song and some of it was just our opinion of which songs were the best. Once we narrowed down to about 15 songs we started making mock lineups to see how the songs would work together including segues and the overall flow. Track ordering became an important factor. We began to notice some patterns emerging in the way the key signatures of the songs and mimicked some of the predominant harmonic structures heard in the individual tracks. One of the main harmonic themes on the record is to start in the home key and then move to the 6th scale degree. We do this in 4 or 5 different ways on the record but you can hear this happening over and over. We began to align the songs in an order such that the keys of the songs would line up in the same way. The record starts in D for the first two songs and then the third song is in B-flat minor...again 1 to 6. In fact if you line up the keys for the entire record, it makes a progression very similar to what a lot of the individual songs are doing. It even goes full circle and arrives back at D for the last song, "Remember". Another pattern that we saw emerging was that a lot of the songs aligned very closely with a band member's numerology work. The numbers 1 through 9 can be placed on a circle moving around clockwise. 9 is just to the left of 1 and could also be represented with a 0. The number 9 in this way represents returning back to the beginning or back home, the starting point. And so this track "Already Home" became track 9. Other songs on the record have similar stories about placement due to the track numbering.

Song Description

"Already Home" is about going through a very difficult emotional experience. About passing through a long journey of transformation and has emerging changed. Through a moment of acceptance forced upon you by the nightmarish intensity of the previous experience, you realize that what you searched for throughout the journey was already within yourself the whole time. In this way you have connected with the source of your own life and now understands that you are "Already Home".

Lyrics

I'm just a man
Falling from the outside in
What I try, you say you don't believe in sin
And I can say most anything at all now
Lightly go
Lightly wake up dreaming

I am already falling in my way
And nothing I can build at all remains
And its time and time again I'm on my own
But I'm already home
Already home

It's time I've freed up this imagination of mine
Behind dark fences I have placed it for such a long time
What I can see
Fly me like the sky
In my eyes are the stars and I see everything, all at once in circles

I am trying to make a difference in my mind
I can see the old thoughts just dissipating
I will go where I always have been.
Yes I am already home
Already home