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It​’​s Only Love

from Strange Presence by Xrisville

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It’s Only Love (4:42)

This song is about being in love with someone but being too afraid to say anything, then trivializing the emotion by saying, “Well, it’s only love.” I composed this piece some time ago, shortly after the birth of my son, but couldn’t fully score the song due to the impediments of my original MIDI system: a temperamental Roland synth, now-extinct Trax software and an old Toshiba laptop that complained each time I powered it up. The major problem was MIDI dropout through the limitations of partials (a tremendous encumbrance when utilizing on-board voices). By using my keyboard as a simple trigger for a Roland JV-1010 sound module, I was able to complete this song by adding the missing leads.

Instrumentation: flute, thump bass, drums, percussion, cathedral organ, steel-string acoustic guitar, Giant Strings, woodwinds, mod-wah guitar, Crunch-Split guitar.

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It's Only Love (Lyrics)

Long the lonely clock ticks through the day
Long the lonely arms outstretch for love not far away
Chance beliefs that shaped the lives of two
Old regrets, unspoken words when love was sweet and blue
And the pain will come, but I don’t want to leave
Yesterday has come and gone, I know
It’s only love, it’s only madness
You don’t have to run, you don’t have to leave
I’m only foolish, drifting apart from the one I deceive
I’m tired and helpless, wanting the hand that embraces my heart
I’m simply stranded, waving hello from a world set apart

Deep the wound of want presents its ache
Deep the room of secrets keeps the truth upon a stake
Thickly thirst the teeth of mortal fear
Quickly come the curses when the truth becomes a tear
And the pain will come, but I don’t want to leave
Yesterday has come and gone, I know
It’s only love, it’s only madness
You don’t have to run, you don’t have to leave
I’m only foolish, drifting apart from the one I deceive
I’m tired and helpless, wanting the hand that embraces my heart
I’m simply stranded, waving hello from a world set apart

And when the loneliness inside me
is a night without a day
I console the child inside me
and convince myself to say
It’s only love, second to a rerun or a game
It’s only love, vessel of silence for the slain
It’s only love, property of children, the aged and insane
It’s only love, it’s only love, it’s only love

Long the lonely clock ticks through the day
Long the lonely arms outstretch for love not far away
Chance beliefs that shaped the lives of two
Old regrets, unspoken words when love was sweet and blue
And the pain will come, but I don’t want to leave
Yesterday has come and gone, I know
It’s only love, it’s only madness
You don’t have to run, you don’t have to leave
I’m only foolish, drifting apart from the one I deceive
I’m tired and helpless, wanting the hand that embraces my heart
I’m simply stranded, waving hello from a world set apart

It’s only love, second to a rerun or a game
It’s only love, vessel of silence for the slain
It’s only love, property of children, the aged and insane
It’s only love, it’s only love, it’s only love

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from Strange Presence, released November 28, 2012

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