Beyond the Sun

copyright 1992 Southside

Have you ever felt
That there was more than just this life
Have you ever felt alone?
An asked the questions why

Locked all alone
Inside your shallow little world
Hoping you could reach
Beyond the sun

I want to live beyond the sun
I want to live beyond the sun
There has to be more to this life
All I want to know is why do
I want to live beyond the sun

When I look at all
The constellations in the sky
I just stare at the things I see
And ask for more in life

So many things I’ve left to see
Won’t you come along with me?

I want to live beyond the sun
I want to live beyond the sun
There has to be more to this life
All I want to know is why do
I want to live beyond the sun

When I sit and think
Of all the things that I have left in life
I know there has to be some way to go

Asking the questions why
Hoping I will someday find
The answers that are far beyond the sun

I want to live beyond the sun
I want to live beyond the sun
There has to be more to this life
All I want to know is why do
I want to live beyond the sun

Fun Facts : The recorded version of this features a simple little spacey keyboard part that reminded me of the Close Encounters tones. It was also a little nod to the weirdness of Steve Vai’s “Little Green Men”.  I started with pseudo prog/art-rock intentions. The finished product was more of a snarling little slice of  Brit-inspired punchiness and philosophical pondering.  I really love the way this one morphed from the initial idea. We never did they keyboard part live. We didn’t even fake it. We also played it way faster live.

There were certain words in the song that some felt I sang with a bit of an odd accent. It wasn’t put on or a charade on my part. That’s how I heard the words when I wrote it. Oddly enough, I got a great chuckle a couple of years later when I heard a new American band with a singer that was adding a weird British kind of twist to some of his phrasings.  I thought. “Wait one dang minute!” That band was “Green Day”. I’m still mad at Billy Joe Armstrong for stealing my thunder…heee heee.