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The Music

From our latest self titled album:
Room For Us All Willing Salt Accolades

From our previous album 'Belle Curve':
 Coming Out Blues Triage


salt

I recently received feedback about Salt from a prominent US music industry professional who said “I don’t really understand these lyrics.”

While I was initially slightly disturbed by the comments, I have come to view them as perhaps the highest praise!!

I personally love lyrics which are ambiguous. Some of my favourite songs are those where I am left musing about meanings, or where I suspect my own emotional responses may not have been what the writer intended, but they are real and significant for me as a listener. I particularly love lyrics in which I discover deeper layers of meaning and emotion on repeated listenings.

So, yes…the lyrics of Salt are ambiguous.

At one level this is a genuine “wishing you well” song, where a relationship has moved on because of fundamental differences, one partner loving fresh water (perhaps literally that of billabongs, perhaps metaphorically) and one loving the salt water (perhaps the ocean, perhaps something else entirely).

At another level Salt is a protest at the “all or nothing” thinking that sometimes accompanies our relationships: the notions that a person is either “in” or “out”, either idolised or vilified. The song reflects a personal sadness that sometimes the complexities of human beings can’t be embraced or tolerated by friends, lovers or ex-lovers.

At another level “tasting salt” evokes the literal sensous flavours of salty food and salty skin.

Please enjoy it for what it might mean for you!

Have a listen.

 

 

I love tasting salt

salt.mp3(3.8Mb) Opens the Track Accolades in your default media player

hope you find your fresh-water haven
find no fault
find the sweetness you've been craving
I love tasting salt
I love tasting salt

wishing you well
wishing you didn't have to be so damned abrupt
the great divide
the in, the out
you love a good, clean getaway
me, I always overstay
I always overstay

hope you find your fresh-water haven
find no fault
find the sweetness you've been craving
I love tasting salt
I love tasting salt

you're moving on
shedding the layers and distractions of the past
no room for all
the awkwardness
the line you draw is clear and well-defined
the ones you keep, the ones you leave behind
the left behind

hope you find your fresh-water haven
find no fault
find the sweetness you've been craving
I love tasting salt
I love tasting salt
I love tasting salt

© v. bennett 2003

   

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