Story Behind the Song
Mike G. had just started to sing for SON, but the guys wanted to audition new singers. He wrote this in response. (A longer version of the lyrics was published in a poetry anthology in 1996.
This recording was part of the original 7-song demo done at Dare Studios.
This was SON's "radio hit." This song was featured as a local radio station's "Song of the Week" for several weeks in a row!
Lyrics
False dream castle, resting on shallow air. Falls right down, falls because no one cares. Why go on when no one wants to hear me? Live your separate life of joy, and I'll keep on silently dreaming. Going down the same old path. Every time the same as the last. Going down, down, down... You profess you'll always care about me, what I do. That was then, and this is now, so why you prove untrue? Packs of lies shoved down my throat, force feed me what you will. Live your separate life of joy, but send me to my quiet hell.
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