The Remedy (4:15)

APPEARS ON: Reality Jockey (2019)

Am I done with external things
I thought might bring me pleasure?
What then fills the hole instead
While I hunt for inner treasures?

Can I point with a pin
When my palatial home became a tiny jail?
Was it a race for someone else to win
Before my avocado boat set sail?

Warmed by a comfy memory
Or on whatever crap I’d been depending
This simple moment might just be the remedy
For disbelief I’ve been suspending

Am I done with external things
I thought might set me free?
Hundred years with softer strangers’ power over me

The soul of an Olympian
And the clothing of an old old boy
Bending my being to reach for the stars
But here is where these very moments are

Warmed by a comfy memory
Or on whatever crap I’d been depending
This simple moment might just be the remedy
For disbelief I’ve been suspending
I’ve been suspending

The mind makes better servant than a master
The mind makes better…

Warmed by a comfy memory
Or on whatever crap I’d been depending this simple moment
Might just be the remedy
For disbelief I’ve been suspending

Warmed by a comfy memory
Or on whatever crap I’d been depending this simple moment
Might just be the remedy
For disbelief I’ve been suspending

Warmed by a comfy memory
Or on whatever crap I’d been depending this simple moment
Might just be the remedy
For disbelief I’ve been suspending

Tim Koelling [Saxophones]
Margaret Luthar [mastering engineer]

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Song Notes

In the notes William gave to mastering engineer Maggie Luthar for this song, he used the aesthetic cue “William Orbit gave Sting some ayahuasca (or maybe the other way around).”

The lyric ‘the mind makes better servant than a master’ paraphrases the Alan Watts Quote “I’m not saying thinking is bad… A good servant, but a bad master”

Collaborators

Margaret Luthar, Tim Koelling

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