When The World Stands Still is a new song i wrote… wrote it on xmas eve… while most peeps were at home with their families drinking egg-nogg and captain mo’s, sitting next to a warm fire ( or watching the dude poke the fire every half hour on channel 4 ) i was at work… i work downtown at a restaurant. on breaks we hang out in the back alley where people smoke, get high, sit down and rest the legs, or in some cases… live… most of the time we dismiss these people as losers in life… leaches, something like the crows, who once you feed once, keep comin back for more…. well on the eve of this “great” holiday we call christmas i took the opportunity to get to know one of these people a little more in depth… his name is james … spends his days sleeping in the library or church.. spends his nights keeping warm by cleaning up the mess WE ( people who work in the building) make… so i made him some dinner and in return he gave me inspiration for this new song… .. i tried to implant the emotions of christmas, the dark side of christmas, i tried to paint the image of a day where the less fortunate struggle with society and their inner demons. a day where LOADS AND LOADS of money is wasted on bullshit possessions that inevitably end up either in closets or under beds. a day where in some eyes the rest of the world seems to stand still and it is just them and their surroundings.
it may be my new found sobriety that has forced me to take a harsh look at reality, the real world… and truly realize how effed up it all reely is. maybe i need a drink to escape the reality so i can go back to how it all was before… but in the meantime i must just be… and do the best i can in whatever it is i am doing… listen to great music, eat great food, and enjoy great company even if they carry the label “Bum”
the song can be found at my myspace page… http://www.myspace.com/zachsmith2009
