An Aftermath

from THE GOTHIC (songs written 1995-96, age 15-16) by Alex Reed

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One of my fellow exchange students was named Alyx, and she was from New Zealand. We'd written letters to each other arranging to meet up and spend a day hanging out in 's-Hertogenbosch. It ended up being a wonderful time that I didn't want to end, but I had to come back to Deurne for a birthday party (of a girl named Rianka). That's why there's the line "not appear and not explain and act like I forgot"). I wrote "An Aftermath" on the train between the two engagements. This song captures the feeling of being, for a brief moment, very much alive and awake and inspired when otherwise prone to sadness, and I'm pretty sure that I was going for the same mood as Depeche Mode's "But Not Tonight." I remember the opening guitar riff came first when I was writing this.

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An Aftermath

It was all so real
The time the day so pure
A final word a smile
Intentions still unsure
But I can make one promise
Sent away from you
Trading bliss for knowledge
Of what I pursue

You have never made me feel so sure of what I want
To not appear and not explain and act like I forgot
Giving in the time to answer, just leave on the light
I have hope that you will sleep as well as me tonight

It was all so rapid
A word into the next
Talking about creation
And leaving me perplexed
But I will heed the wisdom
Of letting go my thoughts
Making now alive
What formerly was not

And though it’s temporary
I find I want to smile
So here is to the time today
And maybe sometime later
In a while

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from THE GOTHIC (songs written 1995-96, age 15-16), released July 24, 2018

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