"That's where I wrote 'We've Only Just Begun,' 'An Old Fashioned Love Song' and 'Rainy Days And Mondays.' Over there is Brian Henson's office, where I met with him for The Muppet Christmas Carol movie." It was a physical location that had been a part of my life two or three different times. I turned to the guys and pointed out a second-story office. But then they do things that project into the future: "You are the end and the beginning/A world where time is not allowed."Ĭompound that with the fact in studio A at what was A&M Records, listening to my singing on an album produced by two robots. From the very start, this album is like a time-travel trip back to the '70s. It's a wonder I can even hear at this point. In the old days, we used to listen to records from beginning to end, pointing the speakers at our ears. In many ways, the lyrical content of the album is very spiritual and celebratory of that fact.
What did I hear in the music? They played these two beautiful melodies that I wrote lyrics for, and then surprised me by asking if I'd sing "Touch." "Beyond" talks about these accelerated emotions: "Dream beyond dreams/Beyond life/You will find your song." Maybe a space traveler who's been in an induced cybersleep so they can be awakened upon landing, or even a robot who longs to be touched. We never identified the person who would be singing "Touch." Is it somebody coming out of a coma? The lyrics are almost childlike: "Kiss, suddenly alive/Happiness arrive." Not "arrives." It sounds like somebody who isn't familiar with the language. Thomas handed me a book that was probably 20–30 years old, on life after death experiences - people who had died and come back. What I loved about was they didn't come with a finished house and ask if I'd put up some wallpaper. They saw it more than 20 times in Paris, one of only two cities - the other was Winnipeg - where it was a hit.
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