Remembering Forgotten Toys

I’ve been working on this piece for about a week or so. You probably won’t notice, but to me this is a very sad song. Its mostly about mourning a childhood that is surely dead and was dying the minute it started. I used a lot of “metaphors” in sound design, certain instruments treading new ground trying to make it OK for others to come in and take the place of those that came first. Stuff like that. I know its a stretch, but its just was what I have been thinking about.

I was a good kid, and I never wanted to hurt anyone, but the world had other ideas. This song is about realizing that, and seeing that good kid who has died, put to rest finally. He’s done his job and has stood up to so much that its time for him to take a break… let someone else stand guard and take the hits.

Its a song about understanding that you can never go back, and you can’t make it better or make up for the bad in the present. It just doesn’t work like that. There is no making up for a bad past. I’m trying to realize that and writing this piece is just an exercise to help me remember that.