Song For Camden Power

it was all a dream I used to read tape op magazine pavement and neutral milk hotel tube amps and reel to reel machines close the bedroom door get tangled up in tapes and cords and plug the 58 into the 424 i had no plans and no ambitions except maybe to forget the world outside because if i could forget the world outside i’d feel ok it was a most irreverent mission i didn’t have anywhere else to go it was a place to put things i didn’t know I had to say Later on I had a band Camden Power was a fan what was that line that says “Freedom is to be understood and to understand”? He did some covers of our songs We traded emails off and on One night he tells me he saw God then 3 weeks later he was gone I don’t know why these things happen Maybe no one is meant for anything at all Maybe all of this is only meant to pass the time but yeah i’ve always been that singer who sang the words like they meant too much and that’s because the words always mean too much in my mind