Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Song idea #3

I've been trying to put together an acoustic singer-songwriter type version of Pure Reason Revolution's latest blinder of a single, Deus Ex Machina. I'm justifying this venture not as an attempt to improve the song, but as an attempt to prove it's a love song. Like all PRR songs, DEM is very ambiguous in its lyrical musings - but I think the gist is about ( probably unfaithful) love coming out of nowhere and having disastrous consequences. The song is full of hate, full of bitterness and blame, but there's such a clear passion in it that comes full out in the last line "you'll always be my love". Despite all the damage, the love burns on. My version stays true to the dark feel, but it tries to make the passion a bit sweeter, and bring out the positive side of the very powerful love/hate relationship. It is also not very good.

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