CHAPTER I

Mostly to express the core principle of the project, which is about Old Bones, literally and figuratively. Taking us back, old worlds taking us back, and we’re resting on the souls of long ago. That is what Old Bones, the project is all about. And hopefully our song brings you into our story and also makes you think about your own story, about your old, old bones and about the people you come from and the worlds that we all come from and the good, the bad and the ugly. That’s kind of what we’re trying to do.ﾠ

Originally, I really didn’t think about how people would feel when I was writing it. I just was thinking about the story and just bringing people in. But now that we’ve made the song, I’m hoping that people feel elated and somewhat joyful. And yes, definitely, really a tad nostalgic. But I think that it’s a song that has all kinds of feelings running through it, and they’re not all necessarily identifiable. But the end feeling of it is that from the old and from the ancient past, we take a voyage into a new place that we’ve never been before. So it has that feeling of discovery. At least that’s what we’re hoping the song conveys.ﾠ

All these things are so personal for me, I love  “Trees with leaves for dreams, a dance that never ends that only you can know, from the roots to the sky sylvan slippers rings of time, in the gloaming of this world, back where memories lie.” I can’t say it or sing it without feeling something intensely about the passing of time and mortality and the fragile quality of life. That’s what those words mean to me.

Well, I don’t know if it was happening right then, it’s kind of all a blur. But the whole tree science thing had caught my imagination, and I was reading constantly about something about the fibers of the mushrooms underneath the ground that connects the trees to each other, and they’re all talking to each other.  And I thought it was such a great metaphor for the whole project that people are like trees and worlds and cities and the ancient past, and then history and stories are the things underground that are connecting us all.
It sounds pretty psychedelic, but I think definitely the new tree science was a huge piece of what I was thinking as I went to write Old Bones and also just for the whole project. Trees are one of the main images for obvious reasons, the family tree, the tree of humanity goes on and on, but I also just mean living trees and all the things that they make us think about here on Earth.