One day I was on an undergound train with my headphones on, loudly playing an early mix of this song. It was the end of a work day and, at the next stop, eight or ten tired-looking, regular pudgy people got on the train car, and all of them – pretty much simultaneously – fell asleep in their seats. It was a beautiful and unusual ‘video’ that unfolded in my brain as my song played ‘doo doo doo’. I imagined a little animated space guy, with a glass bubble around his head, flying to each person asleep, eyes closed, in the train . . . having a close up little look. The scene, part real and part in-my-head, was wonderful The little space guy came from my memory of Sammi the Spaceman in the Little Lulu and Tubby comics from when I was a kid. The scene was a full-on movie . . . fantastic! My imagination struck out other scenarios as the song progressed. I imagined a possibly friendly (at least we were all naïve enough . . . or desperate for something to make our world better – to want to think they were friendly) soft invasion of a cheery, animated alien race, arriving to exchange their (supposed) lovely lives with our less lovely lives. (“I love my life, I love your life . . . I love our life. I LOVE LIFE!”)
In the final scene, where the crowd stadium cheering comes in, there is a band singing those words with a joyous (but with suggestions of some ominous factor) union of our people with their people. Wonderful. And scary. Meanwhile, the guy in the video is texting or fiddling with his personal phone device
. . . “in a minute I’ll be thinking of something else – nothing can get in the way of love.” Yeah, this is the video-of-my mind for this tune. I guess the song might have been called In A Minute text text text. Who’s playing? The robust drums on this track are by Clint Frazier, and that’s Jamie Philp playing the rippin’ electric guitar lines. Thanks, guys! I did the vocals, keyboards, sleighbells/shaker and acoustic guitars.