Quickly to a Smile

track name: Quickly to a Smile
album and band name: from Terra Firma by Our Twilight Pastime

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about: Quickly to a Smile was written in early 2005, and initially was going to be played with my band at the time, Let's Go Exploring. The song never panned out with the band, and then we went on hiatus later in 2005. So, it ended up as an OTP track. As with a lot of the songs on Terra Firma (most actually), this song first appeared on an earlier EP of mine. I remixed it a bit and re-recorded a part here and there.

A little trivia: I wrote the whole song around the line "Did I lie to you? Would you like me to?" Which came to me as I was playing the chords and mumbling along a melody. I asked myself what that line made me think about, and bammo. Quickly to a Smile was born.
lyrics: A lavender flame
dances on the horizon tonight;
and as her eyes peek through
the rear-view mirror beauty’s fading.

As she drives
she’s asking the clouds to cut in,
but getting the third degree from her skin.
She’s watching her home fade away,
and burning again.

And as she searches the mirror for dreams
she asks: “did I lie to you?
Would you like me to?
And pick a future just to end up
in his broken past?”

Now she’s fading fast:
running so quickly to a smile she thinks is true,
and finding out so soon
she still doesn’t know what she wants from life.

She’s struggling to find a way
to make this all bright,
but she’s engulfed in changing herself
through alcohol and the night sky.

So candles they burn and batteries leak,
and so she’s left in darkened scenes:
fables of far away, and the moon
as her alcoholic dream.

And now we know that this could never work (and it shows).
credits: from Terra Firma, released 01 March 2006
Written and Performed by Mike Goldense
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