WALK OF FAME- "You're like the cure for cancer written in someone's notebook, fallen between the cushions like crumbs" (It's about all the things we find ourselves doing on our rise to individual stardom, that we may later live to regret. The casting couch, the bad haircuts.
DANIELLE'S BI - "Tell me what would her grandmother say... Danielle's gone half gay, there's no walls and no fences her black book's the census"....(It's a fun song about someone who comes halfway out of the closet for the purpose of doubling her chances for love and romance).
CRESCENT- "Know you're not always sinning when lights are dimming the room"....(This song is very simply about being smitten.).
SPREADING CLEVER- "She left her phone on a napkin on the bar, she left her name in black lipstick on my car" (It's a song about a dangerous relationship. Not revealing any more on the off chance that my words may incriminate me!)
MADELIN ZERO - "Madelin, pulls into the station, like a king on coronation day and grips the wheel of fortune"....(It's about the girl in traffic with the perfect breasts in the perfect car. The one who is so "out of your league" that you almost develop an immediate appreciation for what you do have and what you can attain. Otherwise you'd have to long for her without any chance of reciprocation (and that's too lonely for the most pathetic of us all).
SO SEXY AVALON - "You're so sexy Avalon. Your belt's undone, your stockings and your Revlon run. Oh Avalon, breathe Avalon. We tied one on & on & on & on"...(Song was originally about a girl that's dating a guy in a band. They're constantly arguing and fighting over something. Each time they break up, the girl destroys her copies of the bands albums. When they "make up", she goes to the store and buys them again. Eventually she drives record sales up to platinum status (1 million sold). Someone thought it was about "rape". Could be. (not that there's anything right with that).
JUGGERNAUT - "Darling fembot, space-age girl. She's got bigger teeth than a tyrannosaur and she loves me, ...but she's hungry"....(The meaning is very similar to the "Final Thing" from the first album (EP), It's about a guy that is so enraged over his mate that he actually wishes harm on her (but he still loves her). Actually, all of that is a surface metaphor for something else. We'll let you figure it out.
BLOCKBUSTER BLUE - "Five mile backup to the bridge, 'be on the evenin' news & the radio too. My favorite photo on the 'fridge, looks alot like you. Alot like you do"...(Stuck in traffic on your way to meet your girlfriend (or boyfriend). It's a simple little tune about how our minds wander when we're alone in traffic. Surrounded by so many people we have so much in common with, but still all alone with our thoughts & feeling like we're the only one who is being cheated).
HIGHER THAN MY VERTIGO - "Make way. The rocketship is rolling towards the launching bay. The destination planet fire engine red, but from photographs and postcards that I've seen...it looks more like a giant tangerine"....(It was written from the naive point-of-view of America in the late 50's (when we thought 2001 would have us all zipping around in flying cars). In this fictional story, the planet's resources are in such disrepair that earthlings have to fly to distant planets to experience things that we've always taken for granted here at home. Like Fire engines, Snow covered hills and tangerines).
HALLELUJAH GIRL - "My Minerva, Leads an angel choir with a tongue of fire. Hallelujah girl, she can harmonize in tune with the world"....(A song about Minerva. The girl that could hold us all together like super-glue. Whether we stick or not is up to us. She represents Excess within control. The leader of the perfect life. An excellent role model with nice full lips and child birthing hips).
THE WAY I FEEL - "Their clever castles stand 'tween silver clouds and highest land, they're over the next hill...always. Their grass is always green, their sky it hangs like wild blue jeans. We want what we don't have.. or need"....(The song is suggesting we make more of an attempt to live for today, rather than put our lives on hold while we strive for what may or may not happen. Goals are good. Our future is important, but not at the cost of completely sacrificing our present.)
SILLY SONG - "I could say the things that might make you melt away, like an eskimo at the alamo on Independence Day". (Among other things Silly Song is an effort to make the girl understand that dating a guy in a band is its own unique set of circumstances. The standard rule book need not apply).
CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS - "For you, my spine becomes unglued like a novel in a pool and I'm hoping you wouldn't ever find it rude. If I sat and stared at you, 'cause the slightest thing you do, is an "act of goddess" in my point of view"...(Captain Courageous a tortured, troubled golden age superhero. Who has successfully captured the fascination and love of the entire world except this one perfect girl).
All Lyrics Copyright 2001 & 2002 (Donovan Lyman ASCAP, Sound Makes Sense Publishing)
Any questions or comments regarding any of this should be directed to the band via the webboard (Blue Views). As always thanks for your interest and support. We promise to keep you in the loop.
A brief history...
"Minerva" (Version 1.0)
Pat Fatica on-stage at the "Festival on the Fourth" during Blue Meridian's set.
July 4, 2001. Sanford for Mix 105. w/ Big Sky.
Blue Meridian's National Debut Album Cover
(a splendid work in progress). This very same
Painting hung alonside other Blue Meridian
Memrobilia at the Orange Country Historical
Museum for 3 months this past Spring.
"I took Latin for 4 years in High School. The first day of class we had to
pick a name of a Roman God or Goddess that best represented our
personality and that name would be our Latin name to use for the
entire 4 years of the class. As it happened, Minerva was the goddess I
picked because of all the great things she was credited with inventing
(medicine, musical instruments, etc.). Also, because she was a bad-ass
goddess of war who was born fully grown, sprung from the head of Jupiter (Zeus),
after he had a terrible headache. I liked the idea of causing a headache
for the most powerful man in the universe...."
-Deanna Goodman