Life is a Pretty Girl

A Wavy Gravy demo. Recorded on Tascam 4 track. The bass and drums drop out in the first verse because Rui and Ed forgot to turn the switch on the f*&#ing thing to "safe" when bouncing a couple of tracks down. Oh well, it turned out kind of "arty". I wonder if that's how they recorded "Dark Side of the Moon" ? Written by Ed on a cocktail napkin at the Court Jester pub, Pape and Danforth Toronto.

In a nutshell, the song is about the real problem of trying to write songs/lyrics that express universal truths, while using and being confined by the conventions of the pop song form. The lyric about "Stephen" alludes to James Joyce's "Ulysses", a book that everyone tells me is beautiful and perfect, but a book that I for one still can't get my head around. The line "life is a pretty girl" is, to me, a hell of a lot easier to understand and just as freakin' true