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Orphaned ex-embryo
Raped by the tide
Wading through oceans of spermicide
Waiting for evergreen
Waiting for news
Searching for any signs, any clues
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Tracing an augury
Back to the germ
Before the rotten egg came full term
Lost in the delta brush
Thickening freeze
Sheltered beneath my skin-deep disease
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Waiting for someone
Whom, I forgot
This is what living is, is it not?
Waiting for anyone
Maybe it's you
Listening to my voice
Overdue
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Orphaned ex-embryo
Raped by the tide
Wading through oceans of spermicide
Waiting for evergreen
Waiting for news
Searching for any signs, any clues
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Tracing an augury
Back to the germ
Before the rotten egg came full term
Lost in the delta brush
Thickening freeze
Sheltered beneath my skin-deep disease
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Waiting for someone
Whom, I forgot
This is what living is, is it not?
Waiting for anyone
Maybe it's you
Listening to my voice
Overdue
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Orphaned ex-embryo
Raped by the tide
Wading through oceans of spermicide
Waiting for evergreen
Waiting for news
Searching for any signs, any clues
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Tracing an augury
Back to the germ
Before the rotten egg came full term
Lost in the delta brush
Thickening freeze
Sheltered beneath my skin-deep disease
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Waiting for someone
Whom, I forgot
This is what living is, is it not?
Waiting for anyone
Maybe it's you
Listening to my voice
Overdue
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Orphaned ex-embryo
Raped by the tide
Wading through oceans of spermicide
Waiting for evergreen
Waiting for news
Searching for any signs, any clues
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Tracing an augury
Back to the germ
Before the rotten egg came full term
Lost in the delta brush
Thickening freeze
Sheltered beneath my skin-deep disease
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Waiting for someone
Whom, I forgot
This is what living is, is it not?
Waiting for anyone
Maybe it's you
Listening to my voice
Overdue
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Orphaned ex-embryo
Raped by the tide
Wading through oceans of spermicide
Waiting for evergreen
Waiting for news
Searching for any signs, any clues
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Tracing an augury
Back to the germ
Before the rotten egg came full term
Lost in the delta brush
Thickening freeze
Sheltered beneath my skin-deep disease
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Waiting for someone
Whom, I forgot
This is what living is, is it not?
Waiting for anyone
Maybe it's you
Listening to my voice
Overdue
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Orphaned ex-embryo
Raped by the tide
Wading through oceans of spermicide
Waiting for evergreen
Waiting for news
Searching for any signs, any clues
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Tracing an augury
Back to the germ
Before the rotten egg came full term
Lost in the delta brush
Thickening freeze
Sheltered beneath my skin-deep disease
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Waiting for someone
Whom, I forgot
This is what living is, is it not?
Waiting for anyone
Maybe it's you
Listening to my voice
Overdue
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Orphaned ex-embryo
Raped by the tide
Wading through oceans of spermicide
Waiting for evergreen
Waiting for news
Searching for any signs, any clues
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Tracing an augury
Back to the germ
Before the rotten egg came full term
Lost in the delta brush
Thickening freeze
Sheltered beneath my skin-deep disease
Save someone else, will you?
He's too different to change
Save someone else will you?
He's too far out of range
Waiting for someone
Whom, I forgot
This is what living is, is it not?
Waiting for anyone
Maybe it's you
Listening to my voice
Overdue
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Last fall, I began working on a new album with my band Giggle the Ozone. It was originally intended to have a 20-song symmetry, but as the project progressed, it became apparent that one composition wouldn’t make the cut. Not because I disliked it, but simply because it didn’t seem to fit.
Appropriately, the song was entitled Save Someone Else, and dealt with the subject of being unwanted. I shelved the demo; I knew I’d eventually give it second life, but at that particular time I needed to move on.
I’m happy to report that the finished Giggle the Ozone album, entitled Selective Pressure, is now out in all its 19-song glory. But what of its little bastard spawn, Save Someone Else? How would that song breathe anew, untethered from the pretenses it was originally conceived under?
To answer this, I decided to hand it over to a few of my favorite musician friends and see what they’d make of it. It turns out they made a whole lot out of it. Way more than I even expected! These are the seven souls who dared to adopt this at-risk anthem, interpreting it in their own unique ways.
Listen to their sonic salvos, for they speak now for the forgotten. I am thankful to have such friends.
-Dylan Sparrow, New York City, 2/19/2015
