One Thing I Could Never Conceive
| The first time I ever experimented with using noise to create music was the first demo by IN TENEBRIS, which featured two improv noise tracks. One Thing I Could Never Conceive was the first time I had ever experimented arranging the noises along side synths, drums, and vocals to make a song with a standard structure, which inspired the line “I’d discovered something beautiful and strange.” The lyrics were written somewhat reactionary. Before Oh So, I had a pretty strict self-imposed rule to never writing songs about sex- it seemed too “easy” and too much like a gimmick. After years and years of this self-imposed limit, I decided to throw it all away and see what happened. What happened was this song. -JJ *** I realized on the first day I met you I’d discovered something beautiful and strange There was so much I knew that you could teach me And so much that together we’d exchange There is one thing I could never conceive All my dirty words had turned to white noise There is one thing I could never conceive Don’t tell me you don’t want to reach out and touch me I wander through my old life as if dreaming There is one thing I could never conceive Don’t tell me, Don’t tell me, Don’t tell me no… |
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