Jeremy / HI54LOFI
Owen doesn't get as much love as he should. Help fix that by passing this song on to that person in your life who fancies a little M Ward every now and again.
What may seem like a romantic number - and it is - simultaneously addresses a plight sometimes found in relationships: The human tendency to be possessive of others.
Starting out slightly ominous, the song arrives at the narrator stating their desire to have another be bound to them with twine. In doing so, an impression of love is insinuated, and still, "terrible things will happen / you will want to die" ...
That's not love. And everyone knows it. Love sets you free. (Such a notion being portrayed towards the songs end by a field recording of birds - a universal symbol of freedom)
All said, it's the last verse that may contain insight into the matter: In a world that is but a bizarre dream, and the afterlife steeped in uncertainty as to what it will (or will not) offer, why wouldn't we be subconsciously driven to stave off personal isolation in this lifetime... even at the expense of another ones freedom?
if you don't like where this is going / it may have to end / if you want to get to know me / if you want to be my friend / you've gotta dance on the table / you've gotta walk with your hands / i have these expectations / here is my list of demands / lets take it from the top / do it one more time / i may not have good reason / but i know that we rhyme / and i'm going to tie you to me with twine / terrible things will happen / you will want to die / we will be waiting for miracles / to fall out of the sky / tacit and truthful / lessons are taught / do you want to keep it going / or do you not / making it up / as we climb / for all you know life could start at twenty nine / and i'm going to tie you to me with twine / looking ahead / giving in kind / love it is real / and it's on my mind / and i'm going to tie you to me with twine / it's enough to make you wonder out loud / will i always be as fragile and passive as a cloud / because we are dreaming / caught between heaven and hell / i want to keep you close / i want to tie you to myself
released February 24, 2017
Written by Owen Dacombe Steel
Owen: guitars / vocals / field recording
Scott Mallory: additional mixing
Recorded with a bullet mic and sm 57 to
Tascam 424 in the bedroom @ 108 Adolphus
St. Andrews, New Brunswick, July 2016
Transferred without noise reduction from tape to
digital as one track, in mono, to use as reference,
thereafter the original master being accidentally
destroyed. Working with what he had, Scott Mallory
doctored the song , reviving it from what would other-
wise not have been a listenable recording.
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