We finally finished off this video that we started in 2017 during lockdown last year . Some things take time. Clearly. Have a good weekend everybody.
beggar man keeps company
with soldiers, sailors, spies and thieves
everybody’s got a scheme
beggar man wears his on his sleeve
the priest is begging for a soul
the rabbi’s begging for the scroll
the ferryman begs for his toll
the jelly’s begging for the roll
Oh oh everybody’s begging
you have a lot of everything
you have someone to do your every bidding
and I see you living like a king
but you know there’s still something missing
the dog is begging for a bone
the heir is begging for the throne
the poor man’s begging for a loan
the unknown are begging to be known
Oh oh everybody’s begging
nothing like an earthly hell
to bring out all the-self styled angels
but the ones who spell it out can’t spell
you give them something and they want something else
there’s writers begging to be read
there’s voices begging in your head
there’s blood that’s ...
This Song Has Got Me is one of those unusual songs that arrived whole, words and music, who knows from where? Even more uniquely, it arrived unbidden on holiday in Pondicherry, India without access to an instrument and was scrawled down on a scrap of paper to be remembered. Upon return to Australia, and a guitar, it turns out that what was in the mind’s eye was also what rendered itself in the air just as imagined.
The song is a meditation on life as a musician, the relationship of performer to audience, and if such a thing can be said , the “meaning” of music. All in a pop song.
This video was made during the second Melbourne lockdown with two of our daughters, Syd & Hettie.
Now I do this for the money
But I try to get it right
It's been a way to feed the kids
And pull the darkness from the light
It's been a way to fill the void
A way to get applause
A way to keep away the wolves
And a way to bolt the door
love me sweet, love me long
you got me in this song
this song has got me
and you got me in this song
Once I ...
