Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Lying Low with the Music

There's no problem in feeling bad but the incision from the surgery yesterday is maybe five to seven cm and it's still leaking.  It would be stupid to push that because doing that will only make it take longer to heal.

That's ok for a day, maybe two, and considering "The Silo Song" has got things kind of tickled.  It needs a cooler name because it's about two guys who have the power to vaporize all life on Earth so just maybe that needs a wee bit more respect.

Asking them not to launch is somewhat novel but it's likely the same thing Gandhi would have said so we're not getting too far out with it.

But we want to get far out with it because the thing with nuclear confrontations is they don't happen once and go away, they happen every time one leader or another didn't get his Viagra in time.


The song draws me because I like the chords but the motive of it is so obvious it's deterring.  Some guys are thinking about blowing up the world.  Hey, please don't do it.  Well, gee, that's a shocker, isn't it.

Maybe we could get all metaphorical with it and the King Beaver has got the grandest dam on the river and he's got a problem with the Junior King Beaver who has made another dam downriver from the King Beaver.  The Junior King Beaver came up and stole the King Beaver's daughter so now the King Beaver is pissed and has ordered some junior beavers to gnaw through his own dam so it washes out the Junior King Beaver's realm.

We sing to the junior beavers to tell them, hey, don't do that.  It will wash out the Junior King Beaver and every other beaver dam downstream.

(Ed:  see what you got here is a case of yer beaver translocation.  You had a dumb story in a missile silo and now it's a dumb story with some beavers.  It's still a dumb story.)

Well, it may need a little review yet.


Maybe stand with the missile silo and that already is a metaphor for nuclear disarmament.  What point is there in keeping them if you won't use them.

(Ed:  here's a tip, Maestro.  Everyone wants nuclear disarmament but many don't believe it will work.)

OK, so maybe that's an additional phrase.  There's the primary song going, hey, don't push the button.  The breakaway phrase goes either Shirley Temple or plays out the horror.  The soldiers know the country is going to get wasted because the other side has already launched.  Getting Shirley Temple in a contrast phrase would marginalize the deaths of hundreds of millions of people.

Conversely, if we play out the horror, the cities are burning, the whole place is radioactive, and it's the ultimate darkness.  However, playing out this horror is an overt threat as in do what the song recommends or we will kill the dog.  Maybe it's justified but it's still obvious.

Off the wall is playing it out as absurdity.  It should be beyond imagination to burn a planet and really it is but people contemplate it without comprehending the enormity of it.  Making a farce out of it kind of makes sense except the chords aren't making a farce.


Every good story ends with a question.  Detective novels aren't all that satisfying because the question gets answered and there's no need to ask again such as with important questions on is there a God, why do I still have a belly button when I haven't used it in sixty-five years, why does the grillwork on cars look like it's got that Cheshire Cat smile, why, why, why.  Sci-fi almost always ends with a question and it's not simply the song should have a question but any good story should.

I have tried the song with different lyrics but there's a problem with that ... they're the wrong lyrics.  I was working on this one with Ophir and the song as it started was about the guys in that missile silo.

Out of respect for him even though he really pissed me off or some word I don't even know and also out of respect for the first idea is usually the best one, it needs to be in the missile silo.

More to come on this as "The Sanctuary Song" is wildly live but limited a tad for a day or two until I get some corpus cooperation.  Stitches come out in a week so it couldn't take too long to get cranking again.

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