This was the first song to have any part of it recorded.
Carrie improvised the Irish vocal before most of the song was finished.
lyrics
COLLIDE-A-SCOPE
Irish Intro Lyrics:
(Carrie Erving - vocal)
Is é an bhrí ann mar aon ní amháin,
I ngach fuaim , radharc , agus mothú,
Ach fiú nuair thuiscint dúinn é ar feadh nóiméad,
éadóchas orainn arís a fháil,
Ní féidir é a shábháil chugainn ó féin.
English translation:
The meaning is there as one
In every sound, sight and feeling,
But even when we grasp it for a moment,
We despair again to find,
It cannot save us from itself
COLLIDE-A -SCOPE
All your senses came alive,
in the spectrum of a song,
the blues rang
orange, yellow, red,
the letters of each word
arrayed themselves the same
Shining past their black and white
The colors of the rainbow
Never change,
no matter how you view them;
whether slashed across the floor
through a rent in the door;
Or humming
in the lights
along your spine,
And glowing in the grasses of the field,
the green that smells of home.
IT'S SIMULTANEOUSLY THERE AS ONE
IN EACH SOUND AND SIGHT AND PATTERN
THE MEANING THAT WE CRAVE AND SEEK
BUT OFTEN LOSE
YET EVEN WHEN WE GRASP IT
FOR A MOMENT DIMLY KNOWN
WE FIND IT CANNOT SAVE US FROM ITSELF
We gave our God hands and a face,
The invention of our need,
A being who would love us back,
When no one human could.
We shaped him in our image,
From an inscrutable sky,
To bear the awful truth of our creation
This juggernaut of being,
Does not notice, feel, or care,
Its bright miracle goes on
(without us)
Senseless to our pain
IT'S SIMULTANEOUSLY THERE AS ONE
IN EACH SOUND AND SIGHT AND PATTERN
THE MEANING THAT WE CRAVE AND SEEK
BUT OFTEN LOSE
YET EVEN WHEN WE GRASP IT
FOR A MOMENT DIMLY KNOWN
WE FIND IT CANNOT SAVE US FROM ITSELF
credits
from Songs For Samuel,
track released October 6, 2019
Words: Norah Vincent
Music: Vern Woodhead
Irish Vocal: Carrie Erving
Vocals: Vern Woodhead
Guitars: Vern Woodhead
Organ: Vern Woodhead
Bass: Dmitry Ishenko
Drums: Rob Mitzner
Bodhrán and Percussion: Rob Mitzner
Mix: Charles Burst
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