“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” — Aretha Franklin

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Perpetual Emotion Machine

from Omega

2006

When it was decided that my young daughter and her mother were moving out to the west coast, I was launched into all sorts of fears. My main aversion to that area is earthquakes (irrational thought it may be). Sometime before they had made the decision, there was a tectonic event with a Richter of 6.7 that I had read about on the news and this didn’t make things any better for me.

Ultimately, I was unable to convince anyone to call off the trip, which I suppose was reasonable — my fear was mostly amplified by the other reasons I didn’t want this to happen. But I did write this song in response to the anxiety this move caused in me.

I was planning to overdub news footage audio of a real quake, but I thought that would be too transparent in the end.

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Perpetual Emotion Machine

The only version which was completed.

Credits

written, produced and arranged by Perpetual Emotion Machine. ©2007 Woof Boom Productions.