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songs written by Peto Gerth
©2006 Peto-A-Go-Go Music/ASCAP
I started writing this on a trip back to Seattle in January '06. I'd been really discouraged with my life in Portland and this was the second in my series of trips to places of my past of which I was considering returning (the first being my trip to LA/San Diego in October '05). Aside from considering new places to live for the future, I'd also been trying to adopt a "living in the moment" mindset and just keeping a general openness about possibilities while trying to enjoy life a bit more and reconnecting with people I have enjoyed knowing in my life. How very Zen, I know... the funny part is that my sister and I commenced a Scrabble game (she kicked my ass!) both picking mantras to post in Scrabble tiles representing our current states in life... her's was "truth" mine was "open mind"... and thus the next day while spending the last night of the trip at a friend's, I started writing these words. I brought them home with me and immediately started on the music. It's a fun song for me because it's the first song I've done completely by myself in quite awhile (a lot of friggin' work!)... and the first song on which I recorded myself playing bass. Bass is a whole helluva lot o' fun! Only thing is... I still haven't decided if I'm moving back yet...
So
cavalier
So insecure
So 80 ways my mind's unsure
I'm reaching out
I'm staying in
I'm at loss to say where I begin
But I will be what I can be
Everyday there'll be new circumstancs to find
Everyday I want to keep an open mind
Any day I'll see a change of a different kind
Any day I'll learn to keep an open mind
No
trust in hope
No clear way around
No steady way for me to find my ground
I'm seeking love
I'm shedding skin
I'm working on the hell that lies within
And I will be what I can be
chorus
It's
unacceptable just standing here
Got to shift out of life's passing gear
And I can't bear to shed another tear
Or waste yet another year
So
excavate
So work that nerve
So get upset and drive on through that curve
I'm on this now
I'm on display
I'm all but ready, set and gone away
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