TIRED

We have our breakfast with the morning news … and then what? Each day begins with a tragedy: how do we cope with that?

Tired is a snapshot of our contemporary condition. A woeful recognition of this end-of-cycle, geo-political state in which we are immersed. A lament to the corruption and violence shaping that world that we move through.

There are no alternatives given here other than the expression of the need to find an alternative. The aim in this song is not to inspire, but rather to capture the heavy, depressing atmosphere of the modern day-to-day.

Its melancholy tones are emphasised on the album by its positioning. It comes straight after the bright country rhythm of ‘When your Ma has seen the Light’ and the bluegrass frenzy of ‘Killer Barndance’. The satire now becomes serious again, and the jolly mad frenzy dissipates into a slow, murmuring jazz.

I’m tired … now … So tired … of it all.