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When I Was Born

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This is it. The first single. The beginning of "The Journal."
Scout would have a lot to say about it but he's busy so I'll try to fill you in.

The Journal is a fiction. It's an album. But it's also a book. Its prose is largely written by John; the music by his son, Scout, after finding John's journal just days after he passed. It's a layered work married by the words of a man over the course of most of his life.

It's about life and love and death and birth and trauma and forgiveness and traditions and loss. To let Scout tell it, "It's about how I came to be. How the stories of my father shaped who I am today. How the world seems to act with a cruel kind of irony. The poetic chaos beyond our grasp."

When I Was Born is about how John seemed to go through a rebirth on occasion after his mother left their family when he was a teen. The dates listed in the lyrics refer to individual journal entries from where they were pulled.

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When I Was Born

(Aug20,86)
I was born in a wasteland of a wastebasket yawning after the last piece of garbage was wrought in the dust of the fallen walls out back of a Taco Bell at 3 AM just as they're closing down. As I puked my brains out.

(Oct30,86)
I was born in a row of houses. Or more like the alley behind as we peed in the dark. Trying not to let the passing cops see us there after the bar kicked us out.

(Mar22,87)
I was born on a train or a platform. I can't remember cause the blackout. Just know when I came to my knees were bleeding and I don't know how I got home.

(Oct31,87)
I was born in a water fountain. Baptised broken fingered and dropped off by a bus. And I was almost late to work that morning. But I wasn't.

(Aug20,86)
Was it me or was it you?
Was I the same person then I am now?
Are you? Are any of us the same?

credits

released July 8, 2020
Written, Produced, Engineered, Arranged and Mixed by Iain Greba
Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Synths by Iain Greba
Drums by Byron Harden
Mastered by Jesse Cannon at Found Soundation

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