F Posterity, issue 3: "Halfway"

This week's unproduced recording comes from a song I wrote a couple years ago and did nothing with. Occasionally songwriters spill an entire composition in one sitting and walk away from it, not really certain that it's something they're happy with. I've looked at this a few times since writing it one day in August 2004 and recently decided I like it. The other day I wrote one final chorus to vary the finish and recorded a demo today.

Strangely enough, it's the songs I write in half an hour that people seem to love. The ones I labor over for months, fasting and beating my chest with stones, are the ones people say, "Eh. Doesn't do much for me."

Maybe that makes sense.

The lyrics:

It's just a halfway position I'm posing on pedestals
Parasols spinning in timelessness
Weightless aspirations seeking an anchor
Like so many tankards topped off with ambrosia
And soldiered mimosas are flowing from open wounds
Doomed to be spilled upon battlefields sacred
All making it better and softer and easier
Stronger and poignant and guided by lasers

But it's just a halfway position I'm posing you
All along with me on grossly domestic
Convincing projections of fourth-quarter bliss
And I'm aching, I'm faking, I'm vacant, I'm taking you home

Me and the universe, you and the secular
Necking like prudes for the fix of a helix
Approaching another, embracing consecutives
Unlikely to be these end-over-empathies
Dastardly seek the approach of romantics
In frantic obsessions of endless semantics
All tethered to earth with the girth of a feather
And whether it weathers the term of eternity

It's just a halfway position I'm posing you
Nosing my way into fortunes I've no business
Zoning my heart for industrial growth
And condoning its breaking until I'll be taking you home

But it's just a halfway position I'm posing on pedestals
Parasols spinning in timelessness
Weightless aspirations seeking an anchor
Like so many tankards topped off with ambrosia
And soldiered mimosas are flowing from open wounds
Doomed to be spilled upon battlefields sacred
All making it better and softer and easier
Stronger and poignant and guided by lasers

And it's just a halfway position I'm posing
You don't need security clearance to hear this
It's only the loneliness closing in on me
And I'll meet you halfway and say I'll be taking you home

Download mp3s below by right-clicking on the links.

F Posterity, 2006
52. F Posterity (Getzschman) - May 16, 2007
51. Crazy (Burton/Callaway/Reverberi/Reverberi) - May 9, 2007
50. Persistence of Regret (Getzschman/Ryan/Sahm) - May 2, 2007
49. Breakin' Plates (Getzschman/Ruthsatz) - April 26, 2007
48. Trio for Vocal, Metronome, Wurlitzer (Getzschman) - April 18, 2007
47. She Hates It When I'm Right (Getzschman) - April 11, 2007
46. Beat It (Jackson) - April 4, 2007
45. Mass Ave Strut (Getzschman) - March 28, 2007
44. Let's Fall Asleep Like This (Getzschman) - March 21, 2007
43. 2010 Ain't What They Said It Would Be (Getzschman) - March 14, 2007
42. Three Red Stars (Getzschman) - March 7, 2007
41. Birdhouse In Your Soul (Flansburgh/Linnell) - February 28, 2007
40. Everybody Thinks They're Self-Aware (Getzschman) - February 21, 2007
39. Hysterical Woman (Getzschman) - February 14, 2007
38. Hollaback Savior (Getzschman) - February 7, 2007
37. White Collar (old Philly dollar) (Getzschman) - January 31, 2007
36. Bottle of Blues (B. Hansen) - January 24, 2007
35. Ask Somebody (Getzschman) - January 17, 2007
34. All Time High Score (Getzschman) - January 10, 2007
33. Bury Me In My Jetpack (Getzschman) - January 3, 2007
32. Eggnogg Is The Liquor Of This Household (Getzschman) - December 27, 2006
31. Like Spinning Plates (T.Yorke/J.Greenwood) - December 20, 2006
30. Jack or Jesus (Getzschman/Peterson) - December 13, 2006
29. Runes (Getzschman) - December 6, 2006
28. We Leave Just Like We Come (Getzschman) - November 29, 2006
27. Shampoo! (Getzschman) - November 22, 2006
26. Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Dylan) - November 15, 2006
25. Was That Seriously Your Plan? (Getzschman) - November 8, 2006
24. Understated Explosions (Getzschman) - November 1, 2006
23. Everything Sounds Better On Vinyl (Getzschman) - October 25, 2006
22. Take Heart (Getzschman) - October 18, 2006
21. Pigs (L. Freese, S. Reyes, L. Muggerud) - October 11, 2006
20. Upstart Casualties (Getzschman) - October 4, 2006
19. Troubling (Getzschman) - Sept 27, 2006
18. Tales of Woe (Getzschman/Getzschman/Booth) - Sept 20, 2006
17. Manual Labor Pains (Getzschman) - Sept 13, 2006
16. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Gibbard/Tamborello) - September 6, 2006
15. Postmodern Burlesque Review (Getzschman) - August 30, 2006
14. Neverending Love Affair (Getzschman) - August 23, 2006
13. Living On Credit (Getzschman) - August 16, 2006
12. Broke As A Muhfuh (Getzschman) - August 9, 20006
11. Josie (Becker/Fagan) - August 2, 2006
10. Cold Day at the Races (Getzschman) - July 26, 2006
9. Calaveras (Getzschman) - July 19, 2006
8. Narcissist Blues (Getzschman) - July 12, 2006
7. Advice to a Young Jedi (Getzschman) - July 5, 2006
6. God Only Knows (Wilson/Asher) - June 28, 2006
5. Miracle Hubcap (Getzschman) - June 21, 2006
4. A Paycheck Is All I Ask (Getzschman) - June 14, 2006
3. Halfway (Getzschman) - June 7, 2006
2. Summer Crazy (Getzschman) - May 31, 2006
1. Sunday Street (Van Ronk) - May 26, 2006