Everlasting Thoughts Lyrics

Exceptions to the rule

We're not typical

What we're looking for

We usually don't get

Our moment in the sun

Before the clouds set in

Then we're swept out to sea

By a hurricane wind

And all we get out of this

Is everlasting thoughts

Everlasting thoughts 

Of everything as it ever was

Why are we so elusive?

We got things in common

Is this another illusion

Or a new day coming?

Are we made for each other?

Or just another excuse

Of  winning this race

Only just to lose

Chose the lesser of the evils

Find the least of the sins

Somehow the answer lies within

In the shelter of the wind.

C 1995 Townedger Music Emporium

R.Smith: Lyrics

Album: These Things Must Pass (1995)

Notes:

This song is written in a different style, a mutated 3/4 waltz.

I don't believe this was written for the person that I was seeing.  We had a very good year and half of being together before a big falling out and drifting apart but back in 95 we had lot of fun.  But as I found out that relationships with the other half having kids and dealing with petty ex boyfriends that the  longer you hang with somebody, the longer you'll going to have fights and insecurity issues.

The main chords are  A, E, D

to which the final line of the verse leading to the chorus would be  A,E,A

Chorus is G,D,A  First line 

Everlasting thoughts line G,D (Three times)

G,D,A

Redding got credit for the arrangement of the waltz riff.  I think this is the only song that I do that has that oddball 3/4 time.   In the history of the Townedgers, Everlasting Thoughts never got played much. The guest drummers couldn't figure out how to play the riff.  For the influence of this song, it might have been Uncle Tupelo or even Whiskeytown.  Even after 27 years, the mind gets clouded of the actual influence, but it may have come from jamming out notes and seeing if anything sticks.  Brian Mullahan said that it's a unique song and it should be recorded.  In our trademark learning as we go, we might have done 7 takes before getting a decent version.  For my Acoustic Adventures, this song seems to fit in well and has been dusted off to play to the masses again.