"Space Opera" genre: Alternative General
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	Lyrical Sci-Fi Space Pop Odyssey
	CD: Lo!   Label: Quagmire Records (self-released) Credits: produced by: Tim Alexander
	Story Behind the Song Light pickwork floats between two wistful open chords like snow. Like snow in space, let's say. There is a feeling of weightlessness. It is a supremely beautiful moment. This simple structure repeats itself and the story gradually unfolds as John Brownell's voice eases into the song: "All I can say is 'I don't care...'" We learn the story of two young paramours separated when spaceships fleeing the destruction of the Third World War ("in the year two thousand and four") take them to different corners of the universe. The narrator's planet is about to be obliterated by a volcano, quashing him out as well as the five-mile-high statue he's erected to his lost love. His memory is shot; recollections of the golden days with his lady friend on Earth have been freezer-burned by all those years he was cryonically suspended in space. It's an incredibly beautiful song, distilling absolutely everything that is good about the Oblio Joes: Brownell's plangent, unadorned voice; ominous and menacing chord changes and a sparkling quasar of a guitar solo from Stu Simonson. And this is only the first song! - Andy Smetenka, Montana Kaimin Lyrics All I can say is "I don't care" As I stare into the mouth of the volcano Although I know that she is gonna blow What a beautiful way to go And it's not clear Just when I got here The journey took me so many years And the light years erased my fears You're on Mars and I'm so far Orbiting a different star And on this planet I've erected a statue Erected it for me and you It's 5 miles high, 2 miles wide The whole country-side Is shadowed by the site I wish you could see it too Back on Earth when we first met We'd watch the sun set And wait for the moon to rise As if it was the only sky Since then we've opened our eyes But that was before the 3rd world war In the year 2004 The year that the spaceships soared Took you to Mars and me so far Orbiting a different star But which one I could not tell you Haven't got a clue All of the memories of those last days Were stripped away By those frozen years in space And I can't see through You're on Mars and I'm so far Orbiting a different star On a planet with no hope for rescue There's no hope for me and you The gods may be mad The universe cold But when the story's told We're not star-crossed We're just unlucky It's harsh but true

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