Edge of the Earth

So this tune is inspired by a series of books that a friend gave me at the beginning of an evening.

Then, after several glasses of wine were consumed by all, mentioned that it would be cool if I wrote some songs about said book series.

Since I a) consider myself a somewhat literary songwriter, b) enjoy writing songs on a prompt, and c) was drunk, I agreed that it would be pretty awesome to write an entire album about this book series that I had just been handed and hadn't even read yet.

And then it was promptly forgotten about for several weeks, at which point I started reading the books, liked them, and thought "hmmm...."

And now I'm in the position of needing a new song every week, and this little project comes in quite handy. An entire album is a little bit ambitious, but a couple of catchy singles can go a long way. ;-)

The book series, incidentally, is the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica by a writer named James A Owen. I've finished reading the first book, and this is sort of inspired by the climactic final scene. The main characters (who are intellectual/creative in nature) are on an island that is literally at the edge of the world, and trying to determine how to defeat a vastly superior army of supernatural creatures.

As rough drafts go this is pretty damn rough, but it's got some gems in there.

I may break this tune apart into a couple different ones and explore some of the ideas a little more as I just tried to capture a bunch of themes from an entire book in one song. But it's kind of fun to just throw it out there.

Oh and any similarity in the chord progression between this week's song and last week's song is all in your imagination.

Take it easy,

Seth