And in your arms, is the safest place to be...

The Safest Place to Be is the one tune on Subterranean that has caused the most frustration, disillusionment, general dissatisfaction thus far in my writing/recording process. It's never sounded quite right. There's a chorus there, there's a verse there but there's never been a song quite there. I've considered scrapping it entirely but I'm told it is worth keeping, so therefore I keep trying. I need to get round to writing a new bridge, but other songs keep coming up and I easily procrastinate.

The lyrics are the most complete, cohesive part of the sum and they motivate my continual efforts of delivering a chord or two worthy of them. The message is, in a general sense, about putting way too much faith in one man/person. They were written around the time of the US elections and are a comment on the hype of those times. Not that there is a particularly political point being made, just that there are really only a few things in this world we can/should entrust our complete confidence in, and it's usually not wise for it to be a governmental representative, whoever they may be.

Here's the words:

In the garden we will walk

circling trees to distract from the thought

In this honesty undone,

holding anything back for too long

Wait & see where this one goes

No where new and no where soon

And in your arms is the safest place to be

And in your arms I keep the closest thing to me

Won't hold on to this much more

the sunlight breaking like boots through the door

Hope in anyone so hard

There comes a truth that will burn up the heart

Wait & see when this one starts

No where soon and no where fast

And in your arms is the safest place to be

And in your arms I keep the closest thing to me