HIGHER GROUND

(P. Assirati)

I was messing around with a friend Steve Wain, teaching him a few chords on the guitar. Steve was getting to grips with the D chord, he miss-fired, I heard something and thought "Mmmm...", I went home and made up the "la le li le li li" bit at the beginning and it went from there. Rebekah added the piano riff, Nick the Dexy's style backing vocals and away we went. Barney Rowe joined us on drums. The opening of the 2 nd CD was meant to be very different from the first CD in every way, a departure with drums, count in and over dubs!!?? Scary! The lyrics are a record of my journey through the mental health system at its worst and how love saved me. Corny but true I'm afraid.
 

All my troubles and all my complications disappear
They're not here
And those things that kept me from my sleep
Don't matter much lately

I've found the higher ground
Since you've been around

All the medication and the intense conversation that they gave me
That was never gonna save me
And that madman who's been cursing in my head
He's not been around lately

The things that I say and the things that I do
Everything's changed since I tumbled into you