I was listening to this great soundtrack album by Ashe and Spencer a lot (soundtrack to 'Monsters Ball'), so the intro guitar part is very influenced by that ambient film music scene, played on my Telecaster. Lyrically the song is trying to express the enormity and relentlessness of time and other forces greater than ourselves and how small we are. How inadequate we feel sometimes in comparison and yet so loved. All we can do is surrender. It's got some great anticlimaxes in it, trying to echo the powerlessness yet beauty which the song is about, similar in some ways to September Song. D.
1 CENTURY by DANIEL GOODMAN
All
my words, my words are fallen short
Like the libraries in the world
And learned thought
Though my words are falling
You are on my mind, on my mind
Waiting here, I'm waiting here for you
And my thoughts,
I spend my every thought on you
As my heart is breaking
Dawn is breaking now
I am falling, I am weightless,
I can't hold it, I can't change it
Time, O, time obliviously turns
From the eyes that gaze
And from the heart that yearns
And the hours and minutes slow
And turn to years and centuries
Sorrow clings to darkness in the night
In the morning,
In the morning comes the light
And I know I'll turn to you
And see your face
I am falling, I am weightless,
I can't hold it, I can't change it
I am falling, I am weightless,
LISTEN to a sample.