Songs by Wikipedia(c): Atalanta

So, it seems like we've been on hiatus forever now. James is off exploring the world and supporting Obama and we're stuck here in podunk LA. However, I have been working on some music and last night sent him a bunch of scratch tracks I made. I'll post some of them here as well.

The original idea for something concerning the subject matter of this song was The Long Walk, a novella/short story by Richard Bachman (Steven King's pseudonym). I wrote a song when I was first living with Gary and Bert in homage to the short story, but the song was terrible. Almost as terrible as you would expect me writing a song in homage to a short story would be. However, I still reserve the right to base song lyrics on short stories by Steven King... Hollywood does it and so can I. Yet, this isn't that song.

I had a harmonica (Carter's harmonica, that is) and wanted to play with it, so I decided to write a song in C major (because that's the key the harmonica was in). I started just plucking the C chord and then picked up the harmonica and started blowing and sucking (yes, I deliberately said it like that to make you feel uncomfortable) and the first words that I thought in my head were, "When the people/Walked upon the land/She ran"

I decided to not have original thought and instead base my female runner on a figure from Greek mythology, Atalanta. The lyrics are below. They're from the perspective of a suitor that really, really loved her, but wasn't fast enough (there's probably some lame sex joke in there somewhere, but I'm too tired). Oh, also, in the song, the harmonica has a phaser on it in certain parts.

Atalanta

Back when people
Walked upon the land
She ran
She ran

O Lord, she ran so fast that day
Towards sentiments of promises
Of mine
I tried

She's Georgia <-born-> from Papa's scorn
She loved me once, my shoes are worn
She's off
I've lost

My feet are bloody
My mind still clear
She's running past
She's running past
She's running, she's running, running, running past (did she look back?)

When the people

Walked upon the land

She ran

She ran

They're coming now, I can't away

My love ran past and here I stay

She's gone

I'm lost