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7.03.2007 Together Apart Together Apart was another song originally from the Acoustic Sessions album. The song was written in 2002, and it's been performed in various forms at past Steven Kim Band concerts. To tell you the truth, I don't remember what the song is about.Courage for the future To find ourselves What keeps us together What tears us apart To share in oppression To love is to gain What keeps us together Won't tear us apart Ran into the future Running from the past Into her arms I fell Forty times I knelt Begging her to please Give it to someone else Throwing condemnation Kicking the fallen Who will keep us together When you tear us apart Looking through a plank The speck in her eye He keeps us together But we tear it apart Ran into the future Running from the past Into her arms I fell Forty times I knelt Begging her to please Give it to someone else Love will come On that final day And make us one Sun to sun We're prepared for What we'll become And we're dying for Nothing more Than empty wars It's a crown of thorns Ran into the future Running from the past Into her arms I fell Forty times I knelt Begging her to please Give it to someone else The two recorded versions are very different, and in both versions my favorite parts are the bridge. In Acoustic Sessions, Ken and I took a very western, almost Spanish approach to the song, which is especially pronounced in the bridge. When Ken was gonna lay down the solo, I described to him a moment where the character, having long run away from his demons, decides to turn around and face them. It's a final charge in slow motion. I think he dies. The VAIN version was decidedly more rock. We added a bridge section (well, lyrics and a lead-out). We simply took to fun with this song and came out with a high energy 80s hard rock homage. |
