1.1.94

we had written we would sit down and start again from the beginning

it was finally time to stop whining and start doing anything something to make them believe we were living

and we kept on bleeding long after the signatures dried on the paper i stole from melissa's macbeth

and oh how i needed so much to believe in it isn't it sick how i thought that i knew you death

how romantic ushering in the new year with our childish antics

now soon after the gullible glimmer of hope turned to sarcastic laughter

and we were intelligent people with eyes in our heads it's astonishing is it i thought you were just plain shy a quiet kind of guy

with abandonment waiting behind every corner a delicate sort of a loner how lonely was i

there is still time we could still try it's very difficult when no one's there to catch you in the rye

you kept saying that the blackout were godsend at least it made living worth bathing

you kept taking the bad with the worse like some curds that your mother was making

oh and isn't it funny years later to look at it broken and shaking our heads

laughing if we had known back then what trouble it would bring

to actually want to create something beautiful now we've turned into those pitiful people

too scared to touch and drinking way too much

oh it's typical isn't it say it you cynic we asked for it

didn't we ask for it didn't we want to be lesser and lesser and covered and down with it

didn't it didn't it didn't it no

there is still time we could still try it's very difficult when no one's there to catch you in the rye

Okay, so obviously these won't be perfect.. but it's the best I could come up with.

"you kept saying that the blackouts [were] godsend at least it made living worth [hating]

you kept taking the bad with the worse like some [curse] that your mother was making"

I thought it was "catch you in the right".

This song seems to be similar in content to Another Year, except this is the beginning of the year and Another Year is the ending of the year. All those New Year's resolutions that fail...this song puts them to music.

This is so beautiful... favourite part:

<i>laughing if we had known back then what trouble it would bring

to actually want to create something beautiful now we've turned into those pitiful people

too scared to touch and drinking way too much</i>

AFP <3333

On her website she posted other song demos in which she originally wanted to use on WKAP with a little description as to the meaning, memory, or other tidbit about it. This is what she said about it:

this is the oldest, by far, in the whole batch of demos. i wrote it in - i think - 1994. which would make sense. people have been asking how it's pronounced. i always call it "one one ninety four." that was a special new years.

You can find this song and direct quote at : http://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/track/1-1-94