| "Harlequin" | |
| This is sort of dedicated to a girl I used to admire from afar many years ago. She used to wear a really tight pair of lycra jeans very well, and they were always colourful.....sort of like a clown would wear. Determined I'd write a song about her one day and call it "Harlequin". Eventually wrote the music for this, my first attempt at a bit of string arrangement. She appears in the song but she then morphed into someone else.....someone who gets me over occasional periods of doom and depression. As a result of this morphing of the subject matter, the lyrics are a bit weird. I know what they mean....my producer/engineer thought it was a "drug song" but it's not. Tried for lyrics with rhythmical effect rather than heartfelt meaning. Yeah, I know, I'm a tart. After recording it I realised that Harlequin was the male clown and Columbine was the female clown, so rerecorded it without thinking about what "Columbine" means to those Stateside. When the penny dropped I realised the song could be misinterpreted under that title so changed it back to Harlequin. Not sure of genre. It's a different sort of song for me. It's a track from my debut CD "N.I.C" | |