fishworshipper

Programme Notes

I wrote fishworshipper after discovering an old notebook containing angst-filled poetry that my now-wife, Lisa, had written as a teenager. The words really stood out to me as something that would work well in a musical context. This is one of many poems I used for my two band albums, I Can See You and Strange Machine.

fishworshipper feels like a very “poppy” song when I listen to it, but I like how that approach complements the melancholy of the lyrics. When writing songs, I sometimes enjoy the idea of using very few lyrics and having the vocalist repeat certain phrases over and over, each time with different melodic patterns.

– Frank Horvat

Lyrics

Now as I allow myself
my feelings to be incessantly
washed in and out by the departing tide
shattering my heart into fragments
pieces that were too small to mend.
For it is too late to turn back now.