Edge Of Neptune

If You Want My Love Is a song about quiet desperation.  The track was written after a performance that was wrought with challenges.  Unbeknownst to me, my band was in the process of disintegrating.  It would be the last time that I performed under the name of Liquid Eye.  It was probably a good thing that noone was at the performance.  Tino - Bass and Timbo - Drums were inseparable until they couldn’t be seen together in the same room.  They were arguing about something that happened the week before.  I was completely unaware of what was going on until after the gig where Tino said he was done.  The performance was rigid.  Wrought with errors and performed in an empty room.

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I went home that night and wrote If You Want My Love.  A plea to the past where success was all but certain.  A song about filling a void that was all consuming.  I really like the lyrics because it is an honest reflex to how I was feeling.  All seemed lost in the darkness.  This was a perfect song for the Rising From The Ashes project because it fit the theme perfectly.

I recorded the main motif using dead (old) strings that had been sitting on my acoustic guitar for the better part of a year.  I wanted the sound to be empty and somewhat haunting and the dead strings added to that hollow feel.