Writing A Thousand Years Wide

Writing A Thousand Years Wide
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Category: Music

Writing A Thousand Years Wide

This song was inspired by the song Sleep Walker by the band
Johnny & Santo www.myspace.com/santojohnny. It was also
written around the time of close friends passing away.
So there was alot going on at that time in my life, I guess the type
of things you write songs about.

Even thou it is a two part song the whole melody was written in
the same sitting. Only the intro and outro was written at a different
time. Its a great buzz when the whole melody just falls into your lap,
but it also takes a good amount of playing and working of similar ideas
for it to come about. To give you an idea of the amount of time Im talking
about, I would write six hours a day for about 2 months.
Then in a lot of ways its still in the hands of the gods, sometimes you
get a song and sometimes you just keep writing. It can be very
frustrating to the point pointlessness, you begin to doubt your ability.
But I guess that is what makes a great song so amazing, its the peak
after a long climb and you get to share it with those willing to listen.
Its also a little like playing with a puzzle or solving a problem, one day
it just all falls into place. I wish I could do it more often.

Recording A Thousand Years Wide

This tune was recorded while Evan Pierce I were working under the
name Periscope (We put out one Ep called Audio Fields and latter
changed our name to The Ribbon Device). Ev supplied the beats
and samples while I started to record the guitars, bass, synth,
general noise and vocals. We had a real basic set up 1 or 2 microphones
no nice pre amps and a hard disk recorder (a computer). Boy those
were the days.
Once I had exhausted myself with ideas I then left it in Ev's hands to
arrange the song eg. which guitar parts to use and where. It did not take him
long to get the basic idea and the rest of the arrangement was filling
in gaps with noise. When then released the song under the name Periscope.
When we changed our name to The Ribbon Device and rereleased the song
we replaced the drums with real drums and rerecorded the bass. And this
is the version that is on the Saturation Day album.

Writing lyrics for A Thousand Years Wide

Again lyrics were written last and they took ages (I think Ev was worried
I would never finish them.) The central theme was written about a friend
and the turbulence of what was going on at that time. For as long as I have
known this friend he has always had a really free spirit and I think in a
way that's what I wanted to express. We never know when our time is up.

A Thousand Year's Wide

Basking on a narrow plane
for something,
as it seems to stream into a gaze
at nothing.

Decisions which he has to make,
by designs of lines
that cannot be out weighed.
With the nagging that is on his mind,
still he watch's all the reason's
unwind.

Thinking will the edge's fade,
to something.
Yet tied in knot's and blown away,
by nothing.

Decisions which he has to make,
by designs of lines
that cannot be out weighed.
With the nagging that is on his mind,
still he watch's all the reason's
unwind.

Every single colour bleeds to shades,
of nothing.
yet all of love's feeding escalate's,
to something

Decisions which he has to make,
by designs of lines
that cannot be out weighed.
With the nagging that is on his mind,
still he watch's all the reason's
unwind.

A Thousand Year's Wide written by Mat Creedon copyright 2006

Studio Players

Mat: Vox, Aco. & Elec. guitars, Synths
Mimmo: Bass
Pat: Drums
Evan Pierce: Turntables & Arrangement