It's weird to say that a song about existential dread and emotional detachment lightens the mood, but somehow Out of Reach became the relief pitcher on Volume I. Every new piece we added to it made it happier, even while Susanna's violin kept a bit of melancholy hanging on, and I think the last thing we tracked was the handclaps that ring this one out. We recorded a bunch of different guitar solos, most of them wanky and stupid, and then Jay finally nailed this funny syncopated thing and we decided that should be the way the song ends. An earlier version of this track was twice as fast and sounded like a Springsteen outtake sung by a nerd.
lyrics
Up on Summerhill, drifting through the mist, reaching out my hand. "That's me," I insist. The ghost of me is hovering high up above the trees, below the sky, he's just out of reach and I don't know why he's just out of reach. In the underground experts all around try to block them out, their grinding ugly sound. And the ghost of me is hovering high up above the trees, below the sky, he's just out of reach and I don't know why he's just out of reach. On the middle floor, not in the air, not on the ground, will anybody notice if and when I'm found? Up on Summerhill, drifting through the mist, reaching out my hand. "That's me. I insist." And the ghost of me is hovering high up above the trees, below the sky, he's just out of reach and I don't know why he's just out of reach.
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