TRIVIA:
- This song has not yet been officially released.
- Part 1 of this song and part 1 of "Cherry Candy" were originally the same song.
WORDS FROM KRISTIN:
"A couple of guys spilled off their motorcycle in front of us and dies instantly, under
a full moon. That desert moon that still shines on LA through the light noise. It actually seemed extra dark right then, even
with the neon and the streetlights glaring and that crazy moon. The men crumpled to the ground and then froze in two homunculus
heaps as their motorcycle spun away and crashed on its own against the sidewalk.
When we saw that the cops were gonna
leave the men lying there, we realized they were no longer men, but bodies. All us traffic people who were still alive took
a minute to feel sad and then we drove on. Our car was headed for the real desert, the unspoiled one, the one that gets so
freakishly dark, you can't see your own feet. Sparks and sparklers light up the stuff that really matters there.
And
when the sun appears, it opens everything up to squinting eyeballs. No secrets in the daytime desert. You cook and blister
in its expansiveness and freeze in its contracted shadows. This is rising to an occasion though, so it doesn't hurt.
Keep
driving. Cross the bottom of the country and watch the landscape green up and wet itself down. Rain seeps through everything
in the American south, whether it's raining or not. Just the memory of past rain soaks the trees, whose branches
hang heavy and drip mystery moisture. Sparks and sparklers light up the day here.
And rising to this landscape's occasion
means clean dreaming, swearing off parody, soaking in wicked memories that drip off the branches like so much forgotten rain.
Love,
Kristin"
