Thursday, March 24, 2011

Words I'll Never Regret


"Say what you will, but I will be yours forever.
Those were the words I'll never regret."


Montauk Point, Long Island, NY
 These opening lines to Adam's first true 'love song', the third track of his Apple Blossom album, reveal him to be a Romantic.  And the odd thing is that, even as his father, I never really thought of Adam that way, until he started writing his beautiful songs.  Growing up, it seemed that his 'essential self' was more interested in airplanes and Boy Scout knots, or perhaps clowning around with his male friends. Then, after he began to be interested in music, he started composing crazy songs like 'Potato Farmer Oratorio' on his 'Best CD in the World' album.

But there was always a side of Adam we almost never saw, because it was so private. And it is this Romantic side ( in the deeper artistic/literary/philosophical sense) that has begun to come out more and more in his twenties. The side that believes that the deeper realities of life lie in the feelings, emotions, and intuitions of the human being, the non-rational side of life, rather than logic or rationality or cerebrality.

This is why Adam is able to evoke such deep emotion in his music, including the longing of human love and intimacy.

Lyrics:
Say what you will, but I will be yours forever.
Those were the words I'll never regret.

Changed as we are so we can't be together.
Babe you are someone I will never forget.

I hope to keep talking and watching you grow.
With the ones you are walking.
So don't forget me just know that I'll always be here,
I'll always be here, I'll always be here.

In my mind, it never shakes
nor will it ever untangle.
But there's a taste of the courage
that I took from your pillow.
Changed as we are, at life's insistence
Babe I'll be on your side
and I will cheer from a distance.

I hope to keep talking and watching you grow.
With the ones you are walking.
So don't forget me just know I'll always be here,
I'll always be here, I'll always be here.

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