So I went out of my mind...and...? "Feed My Lambs" is up. I went pretty crazy with the vocals. Had a little fun anyway. Took me five hours or so, when I probably should have been scanning some dactylic hexameter.

The song is about my grandmother's experience growing up near Edmonton, Alberta. She grew up on an Indian reservation there, and she went to this Catholic school at a mission or something on the reservation. Anyway, the story is there in the song, but I guess I'll explain it clearly. It takes place during the great depression. They got this much-needed shipment of meat in on a Thursday night which was for the poor on the reservation (which was everybody, really). But it was Lent, and they couldn't eat it the next day. Since they didn't, it went bad by Saturday. The between-the-lines part is that was a major turning point for my grandmother, and she fell away from the faith.

To avoid confusion, I guess I'd like to point out that I believe Lent is a very important practice in the church. I support it wholeheartedly, and I don't want the high-church folk who read this to think otherwise. The song seems a bit scathing, so that's why I'm sort of fleshing this out a bit. My song sort of deals with the same issue as Matthew 12:1-8.

In other news, my car is getting repaired starting tomorrow. Damage costs: $1600  ¶ 12:44 AM