song 078 : Bad Seed/Yellow Light (Suburban Legends + Outtakes)

I had just watched the black and white movie Bad Seed late one night. While not a psychotic killer as a little girl, I did physically resemble the one in this movie somewhat. And my family, probably because my older brother was a sociopath, always seemed to be expecting me to blossom into some prodigy of evil at any moment. I was actually honest and like many Capricorn kids, more civilized than the adults surrounding me.

The track evolved into a study of the way human beings develop powerful mental ruts. Even though I was making the words up as I went, I was following the rule of rhymes, “I still drive between the lines” I sang. But then I and the whole band seemed to pause at the threshold of a new world.

As I wondered about the bridge between the overly familiar and the unknown, “you can still drive over the mountains” I sang and the band lifted me into a mystical reunion with the fountain of inspiration, the yellow sun, the eternal return. (I was born on Dec 22 at the exact point astrologers call galactic center. It’s the moment when the sun waxes again).

This was one of the most popular songs from Suburban Legends and one friend says it saved her life by pulling her out of a suicidal depression when she first heard it.


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