"Issues with Time"

This weekend's tune is "Issues with Time." I don't recall the origins of the song at all. There is a lyric, however, that reminds me of an old college girlfriend, and "Issues" may or may not have anything to do with her. Hard to say. The lyric is "I've bent down crippled / trying to raise a sun..." and my girlfriend's last name was Sunner. So, there may be a connection; they're may not be.

Chord-wise, like too many of my originals, this one is probably unnecessarily complicated. I have no idea what the two chords are over the verse--probably some kind of B and A, but of a jazz nature. The rest isn't a secret although the timing might be. It usually is. If I recall, during the breakdown my old drummer used to play in 4, knowing the guitars were not in 4, and somehow when the music returned to the lyrics, we were all back where we needed to be. Polyrhythms, baby.


ISSUES WITH TIME

i’m lost—all in your eyes

they’re  such—sweet disguise

i’m lost—all in your mind

you see only color blind

when i look at you—something strange over my body

another body left behind

i turn around to find you—sitting on a park bench right there

with the cigarettes and wine

chorus

in time—i will see your eyes, see through your lies

in time—should I forget your name…

each time—that i forget your name…

in time—should I forget your name

each time—that i forget your name

i’ve bent down crippled—trying to raise a sun

she’s been a bloody yellow one

and she says—that she don’t want to shine

she would rather be left to dry

but i can’t carry her—i am but a man

i have no reality but what i see

and i can see the faces of people come and gone

every face has something gone

chorus