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L​.​A. Aria

from Another Country by Mermaid Kiss

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L.A. Aria has been through more time warps than the StarShip Enterprise! I wrote it in 3:4. We tried it briefly in 4:4. Then we recorded a version at the GoatShed with the whole song in 5:4. Finally we reverted to the original 3:4 where the song, to me anyway, always felt happiest – though we have kept the bridge in 5:4. Looking back, I’m wondering why we didn’t try it in 13:8 – or maybe we did!

It’s one the earliest songs written for the project – second I think, after ‘This Trail Of Tears.’

The subject of the song does not cover any new ground – the lure of Hollywood on naïve country girls who find a rude awakening on the West Coast, together with the triumph of superficiality over substance that is Los Angeles.

For every wannabe who does succeed there are tens of thousands who don’t make it, and many of these fall prey to the sharks who feed in the waters of that disappointment.

The song is not, however totally bleak. The narrator, or ‘observer’ in this piece, hints that there is someone who rises above it above all, who is true to herself and isn’t prepared to play, the Hollywood game.

lyrics

In this City Of Angels how come no-one has wings?
Is it beauty’s obsession with nothing deeper than skin?
And out on the boardwalk, the dream-girls parade up and down,
But you, you move like a river, you don't make a sound.

In this City of Angels so few make the screen,
But there’s always somebody prepared to offer that dream
And somewhere in casting, the blonde girls go down on their knees
But you, you’re strong like a river, ou’ve no-one to please

Under the spotlight, camera’s roll,
Rock and roll, in the limelight,
Hold that smile, Romeo, oh Romeo,
Do you love me?

In this City of Angels you can live among stars
It’s ‘Say hi to Joni’ and everyone plays the guitar,
Everything’s scripted and they’ve all got a word-perfect part
But you, you’re deep as a river, it comes from the heart

Copyright © Jamie Field 2012. All rights reserved.

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from Another Country, released June 17, 2012
Words and Music: Jamie Field

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