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We're Going Home

by Peter Smith

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On August 22, 2017, I was in a car accident. I slammed into the back of another car. My daughters were in the back seat. They were unharmed, but I broke my collarbone and the car was totaled. The accident was my fault, as it turns out, although I couldn't have ascertained that myself as my experience of it was instantaneous. In my rather privileged first-world existence, this was a significant event. I couldn't play piano for a while. I was very angry at myself for allowing the accident to happen, for putting my children in jeopardy that way. Five days after the wreck, I wrote these lyrics in about 30 minutes. It was the beginning of what has been a long process of trying to forgive myself. The music followed. With life being as busy as it is, I was only able to complete production on the track just recently, about nine months after the accident. My daughters play violin and sing on the track as well (we recorded and mixed almost everything in my home studio), and I hope it's a celebration of us not only surviving the car accident, but of living life fully for many years to come.

lyrics

Everything is strong until it breaks
Every man moves on until he wakes
And sees the film of his existence
Paper-thin with no resistance
And through the light
The sudden stop

Never thought to think of what's in balance
Never knew the impotence of valiance
When you're wholly unprepared
And the ones you love are scared

And through the light, through the light
One thought on top

We're going home

Searching what I know as if it matters
Piecing it together then it shatters
And my mind starts up again
Seeking what went down and when
And through the light
The sudden stop

Burning through the film emerge the faces
Cries of pain and tears and other traces
Outline memory in the dawn
How much worse it could have gone...

And through the light, through the light
One thought on top

We're going home

credits

released May 23, 2018
Peter Smith-- piano, vocal, composer, mixing
Roxanna Smith-- violin and vocal
Vanessa Smith-- violin and vocal
John Storie-- guitar
Johnny Flaugher-- bass
Jake Reed-- drums

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