Track 3 - "Vertigo"

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Track 3 - "VERTIGO"



I used to sing this song in Dutchie and the Donuts, a short lived but great little band which was Billy Cowsill and me backing up Tim Leacock (Dutch). Billy liked this song " ...because it's a bummer" -- his words, I couldn't have said it better.

"Vertigo" is mostly a description of my mindset around the time I was leaving Toronto, my home of 26 years, and setting out for Calgary in 1999. Halfway through my solo drive in a U-Haul truck containing all my worldly possessions I sat alone on a rock on a hot summer day beside a lake in Northern Ontario and contemplated my 'freefall.' It was an odd weightless feeling that I sometimes still get a glimpse of while out 'on the road', melancholy but liberating, suspended between past and future ... hard to describe, maybe the song helps.




PERSONNEL

Drums -- Tyler Hornby
Upright bass -- KJ
Martin acoustic guitar -- KJ
High string acoustic guitar -- KJ
Jazzmaster lead guitar -- KJ
Tele 'brush guitar -- KJ
Strat 'tremolo' and Leslie guitar -- KJ
Lead and harmony voices -- KJ


"VERTIGO" lyrics

I found a spark
I touched it to a memory
It split the dark
A glimpse of how it used to be
I really tried, I can't hold on.

CHORUS
Comes a time when love has gone
Somebody gets tired of holding on
Lost on these familiar streets
And bored by every friend he meets
'Til sick with vertigo
It gets so easy to let go
Freefalling through the years
To anywhere just out of here


You know me well
That's some small comfort as it ends
It's hard to tell
Just when we stopped being friends
I really tried, I can't hold on

CHORUS
Comes a time when love has gone
Somebody gets tired of holding on
Lost on these familiar streets
And bored by every friend he meets
'Til sick with vertigo
It gets so easy to let go
Freefalling through the years
To anywhere just out of here


I found a spark
I touched it to a memory.


music and lyrics by Kit Johnson SOCAN


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