| | It was early December when I finally got a chance to write a song in China; I was several miles in the air, flying home to Beijing from ice-city Harbin, before I was able to start work on this one, work that was mostly brainstorming. There's over a page of preliminary notes that attest to the fact that for a while I had both too much material for one song as well as not enough direction to put together a single cohesive work.
I think it was a while later, back in Beijing, when I finally started to see what this song was going to talk about, about confusion, contusion, concern paving way to something that isn't instantly understandable, or maybe simply isn't ours to understand... all wrapped in a story that hopefully avoids obtuseness while remaining, well, believable. smile Thanks to [糖葫芦] for lending her singular voice as well as a great deal of inspiration, exposition, vindication to this project.
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Out of Our Hands
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I think it started up when we found
That for music we liked the same sound
And I asked what you sang when you sang in the shower
Then we ended up talking for three or four hours
And then I gasped when I saw the time
I thought we'd fallen out of our minds
And then you went to the door and in silhouette
Sighed agreement that there was nothing to regret
I can't explain how it seems wrong
How our time's never long enough
But we don't even try, and both understand
That what's happened already is out of our hands
What's going to happen is out of our hands
That first song was a long time ago
Back when I stressed to stay apropos
How it scared me to touch or even sit close
And my expressions of feeling were distant at most
Had my own apprehensions, too
About our easily misconstrued
Situation I found I constantly thought
About how all at once it was both perfect and not
I can't explain how it seems wrong
How our time's never long enough
But we don't even try, and both understand
That what's happened already is out of our hands
What's going to happen is out of our hands
Don't need to explain how we feel blessed
And Your grace is more than enough
So we don't even try, and both understand
That what's happening here is out of our hands
And what happens next is in more capable hands
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