Ride in the Country (89 recording, remastered 2022

The Editors of Life

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Matthew Scott -- Piano, remastering engineer John Pfeifer -- Vocal, guitar, bass, music/lyrics

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The Editors of Life

An amalgam of anything that passes thru one ear and out the other -- see our Interview page for details.

In our music, you'll hopefully find everything -- rock, orchestral, trip-hop, spacey/ambient, whatever -- most times all in one tune!! Mwah-ha-ha.... We follow no labels, guidelines, trends -- we write what we feel at any given moment; industrial one moment, folk the next. You might hear smatterings of Floyd/Waters/Gilmour, a touch of Mike Nesmith, some Metheny, maybe even some Vangelis or 80's pop, classic rock, sheer noise, Air, Terje Rypdal, and if you really stretch in order to make us seem more relevant to the times, maybe some of The Shins, Sigur Ros, etc. Basically anything that makes a noise can inspire us.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Alternative General

Charts

#4 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #1

Author

John Pfeifer

Rights

John Pfeifer

Uploaded

November 03, 2022

Track Files

MP3

MP3 12.3 MB • 320 kbps • 5:22

Lossless

WAV 54.2 MB

Meta Data

BPM

100

Beat

4/4

Key

A min

Vocals

Male

Character

Danceable

coffee-place

dancefloor

Positivity

dark, sad, angry

happy

Appeal

unique

radio-friendly

Story behind the song

Originally written Xmas break '85 - '86 after a magical night, which still seems like a dream, with the girl I was secretly and madly in love with.  We just released a 2022 re-recording, this being the original 1989 arrangement, magnificently and majorly remastered by Matt.

Lyrics

I took you for a ride in the country
and you sort of took me for a little ride yourself.
What shall we look for,
what shall we find?
On this little
on this little ride into the country.

We looked for a lonely place,
and I looked for a lonely halogen lamp.
What were the words you said,
and what were mine?
On this little
on this little ride into the country.

You expounded on your theories,
and I expounded on the coldness of the night.
What were your motives,
and what were mine?
On this little
on this little ride into the country.

     I waited for your call.
     I waited for the cool warmth of your hand.
     And I waited for an answer to your call 

We tried to avoid the feelings
that you seemed to have felt just the night before.
But now are they really
what they had seemed?
After this little
after this little ride into the country