Story Behind The Song

I've lived in an Amsterdam-Toronto long distance relationship for 6 1/2 year and am just now moving back to reunite in Toronto. The music for this song came from a question I asked myself in 2000: what are you going to write that sounds like something new for a new millennium?

Song Description

Forceful semiacoustic rock insider view of a long-distance relationship that's surviving. Joy and pain, sex and loneliness, many emotions at the same time. Storytelling rock, might remind you a bit of Harry Chapin but the music is much harder, not MOR. Could go country beautifully but wouldn't sound conventional.

Lyrics

LONG DISTANCE

genre: americana kerouac rock adaptable to new country.

(VTC: verse/transition/chorus)

VTC 1: Hi, it?s me, this is a fantasy, I?m with you in all your thoughts.
For a while you can make both of us smile by tangling us in all of those human knots.
You can almost see me ? I?ll do those rumoured things your free mind thinks of when you?re alone at night.
Let me in, let me melt into your skin, I?ll put my magic kiss on your heart?s delight.

Long distance call, your mind has no walls, it brings me in from so far away;
and I?m with you, I?m with everything you do, I?m with you, I?m at your door, I can come in and play

and if we play volcanoes and if all your earthquake signals are strong
and your fantasies rain lava to the seas, Hawaiian scenes that take all your dreams along,
burn them into me? it?s easy.

VTC2: Hold me tight, your warmth is bright, it shines on me wherever I am, am?
I think of you too, I think of things we do and things we haven?t done yet and things we can.
It?s crazy and sane, it?s the virtual brain that brings you to me when you?re far away
and most days I find you all through my mind, my imaginary real friend you have so much to say
and well I know we?ve got so far to go, so long before we meet again
and I gnaw myself and I worry about myself but then I hear your voice, you?re saying

?don?t do this pain thing, you?re losing your belief in an angel that?s with you.
Just you keep it in mind I?m there, just let us keep our soundings in rhyme
We still have love ?long as skies are above and grasses have whispering fingers.
And nothing gets lost, the dreams pay the cost and the last kiss you gave me still lingers, well??

Bridge: somehow? I??ll be rising, flying above that time-ripe sky, time-ripe sky.

VTC3: Foreign heart, you take the world apart when you come through that way.
Spirit radio I can hear the thoughts you know I know you know I think of you every day.
Long distance call, the mind has no walls, our skin goes hungry but our thoughts are free.
I see your eyes still bright with surprise like the first day I saw you imagine me

in love with you and it was true. As soon as you created it, it was yours.
I still want to wrestle with you in that same helix across the floors.
It?s all been that night, you?ve held me that tight since the first time you bit my emotions
and no geography can steal you from me, there?s a higher wave than in all those oceans,
those wide and deep and silent oceans.

Tag: Hi it?s me, this is a fantasy and it?s real as I am.