recorded live to 2-track at the Commodore Ballroom, in Vancouver, June 19, 1990
lyrics
Silent haze, you surround yourself.
Sweetness calls, I just can’t help myself.
These four walls hold up broken glass.
And when I’m small, I know this can’t last.
The names you call, oh, the way you dress yourself.
Too hot to touch. Maybe you know too much.
Stand in lines, smoking and waiting.
Stand for your brother, stop anticipating.
Crazy, it’s wrong. How can this go on so long?
Passion touch. Breaking each other’s hearts.
Silent haze, sweetness calls.
Broken hearts; but I’m so small, so small.
Mark is a songwriter, composer, arranger, and pianist/keyboardist. His music background includes folk-rock and indie-rock
bands, some theatre, lots of solo gigs, and, more recently, light-classical piano/string ensembles, orchestral arrangements, and a sci-fi oratorio.
An animal-rights and eco-social justice activist, Mark likes to write from the POV of an objective observer of life on Earth....more
A song, "The Ballad of Takaya", by John Middleton of Victoria, BC. The true story of a lone wolf whose world tragically conflicted with the ever-expanding world of humans. Teary eyes will ensue. Mark Reed
3 songs from the World-Electronica music album "Tibet" by Waterbone. These songs and others of the genre inspire me by dissolving barriers and structures of the genres I'm used to writing within. Mark Reed
Carlyn Bezic’s sophomore album as Jane Inc. is takes her disco-inflected electronic-pop to even sharper, darker realms. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 24, 2022