The updated lyrics are:
My seed of the sky
Made from the atoms of the stars
How beautiful you are
How powerful you are
Again, all things are subject to change, but it became clear this afternoon what I want this song to be about. I try to keep my songs personal, even when I'm saying something more generally about our society or the world we live in.
My family has featured in a couple of my songs before. Stay is largely a song about my relationship with my wife (although it is far from the one great love song I owe her) and was inspired by a time she and my daughter were on holiday and I was left in Macau to work. Blacksand (and forgive the poor state of the recording - I asked the sound engineer for a decent clean tone and this is what I got) is a song dedicated to my grandmother, and also features a shout out to my daughter within it.
The one person I have not managed to connect with my music is my son. He is, if you had to describe him in one word, mischievous, or perhaps even impish. He is the type of kid who tests where the line is by throwing his ball over and running to chase it. I don't think that side of him will ever change.
But of course, defining a person by one word is like defining a country by one person, and he is much more than that.
One thing that strikes me about him is his doggedness to stick up for himself. He is resoluteness. As the youngest in the family, I know that he has a hard time because he is the voice least consulted. There are rules and lines and promises that one day he will have the freedoms he doesn't have now. And, of course, too often our conversations are about the rules and what he did wrong, and not enough of them are about how much I love him, and how, for all the nuisance and pain, I wouldn't trade that for the world.
I heard that (and physicists, feel free to correct me) that because of the big bang, we are literally made of stardust. I want this song to be that message to him.
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