Sad Eyed Stars (music and lyrics by Rachel-Ross Cambrin)

I was listening to and learning songs by Townes Van Zandt at the time, and his lyrics gave me “permission” to write about what had lead up to the depression I had experienced, and how music gave me peace, making life tolerable.
Normally it takes a while for me to complete a song, but SES was written pretty much in an evening with a few tidy up sessions. It was easy to write once I started, and effortless to complete.
Lyrics changed slightly over time and when I corrected the final copy, going off the released recording, they had to be changed from a mash of first and second person plural references to almost all first person singular. In particular “word” was changed to “world” in the chorus changing its meaning. The new stanza, “to a world not black or white.”, is not a racial reference but intended to imply that things can more grey than binary. The process of letting my live mutterings influence final versions of songs has been something that has worked for me in the past and this song is no exception.
If nothing else, Sad Eyed Stars is my story, or at least part of it.