The Edge Of Chaos

ShootingForTheMoon1.mp3(3.0MB, 3:14)
Listening to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme the other day made it beautifully apparent that you don't need to have vocals as the central focus for a song; sometimes a few well placed phrases are all that are required to unlock the meaning of the song. Unfortunately, no way to get sax playing of THAT quality on this track (I wish!!) but the concept still holds. The breakthrough I've been searching for turned out to be as simple as 'less is more' - keep the bridge instrumental and add some soaring voice lines to keep it interesting.

A few ideas formed the basis for the final verse - the idea that life thrives at the edge of chaos, the Lorenz effect (a.k.a. the butterfly effect) where tiny perturbations in a chaotic system can result in huge changes to the system, and the idea that this makes it possible for individual actions to have an influence on the outcome

Here are the lyrics I ended up going with:


Here we are
in a world full of beauty and danger
under skies that are burning with stars
but it seems somehow nothing is stronger
than this burning desire of ours

Every day spins the world into glorious sunrise
Filled with promise of what's yet to come
and the night under glimmering starlight
Filled with dreams that outdistance the dawn

And we're shooting for the moon
Always shooting for the moon...

[Solos]

No one knows where we're going.
No one knows what the future has waiting.
We all live on the edge of chaos
where the wings of a butterfly
could be the seeds of a hurricane's force

Shooting for the moon
Shooting for the moon
Always shooting for the moon
In this world full of beauty and danger
Shooting for the moon
In the night under glorious starlight
Shooting for the moon


Still a lot of work to do on the drums and production, but I'm very happy with the bones of the song as it stands. Certainly took long enough to get to this point!!