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We're sharing insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from?
Our next feature song is: 'Maybe Baby' – track 3 on the album. This is a heart-felt break-up and get-back-together song. Being in a band is exactly like being in a marriage. A few years ago our band broke up for a whole year – don't worry, being apart could not last. Some people are meant to be together. This song is special to us because it formed part of a ceremony of reunion. Our family are close so the temporary break up of the band was felt wider than just us. At the end of that year, they travelled from different places in Australia – Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne – to the property of Gypsy Hill Records in Hobart. We'd invited them for a celebration. Everyone was expecting something like a wedding vow renewal to mark a new era of what was to become The Neo Now. The party was rolling along when suddenly we gathered everyone together as an audience in front of our stage. We took our places on the stage and our instruments. We didn't speak but simply sang this song, eyes locked on each other, choking back the tears. We don't know if anyone really understood what we were singing or what this moment meant but we knew. (It certainly wasn't what anyone was expecting). This song is about saying sorry, I messed up. I left your world but I miss your love and I just want to come home. Please forgive me. Please help me to find a way back to you, find a way past the pain and hurt. I hope you notice the change in me. Please, be back here beside me.
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We're sharing insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from?
Our next beautiful song to shine a spotlight on: 'I Don't Belong Here'. Straight up, this is a political anti-war song: “To your wars I do not concur”. Or moreover, 'I Don't Belong Here' is a pro-love song. The singer, our John, calls out, frustrated: ”Can we share all the love that we feel?” In this story, the singer has observed the anguish of a young girl caught up in a war – it could be Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Ukraine. It doesn't matter where – there are so many conflicts these days, take your pick. Yet from these wars it is the innocent who suffer. We as a Western society have become so desensitised to war, it's an accepted factor of life these days. But it's not much of a leap that we could all become that little girl one day. John sings: “We're protected but now the line's blurred because I could be her”. What The Neo Now is saying in this song is that these wars are waged in the name of protecting people but there has been an undeniable cost in terms of human rights, of freedom. The Neo Now says that the lines of 'protection' in the name of war have blurred into institutionalised 'control' mechanisms. You might not need to exercise your freedoms right now but come a time when you want to, indeed, need to, you might find that they've have been taken away without you having even noticed. There have been some big changes to laws worldwide in recent times, mostly met by silence on behalf of the populace (is it because the majority are so distracted by the entertainment and ego-drama that is presented as the 'way we do things around there' these days? But that's a topic for another song). Let's focus on peace and sharing the love that we feel. What you focus on, grows. Is anybody listening? |
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