This morning’s song is from my fellow Calgarian Chad VanGaalen. Rabid Bits of Time became one my favorite Chad VanGaalen pieces after watching him perform it at this year’s Polaris Music Prize gala; it was one of the most intense performances I have ever witnessed. The song can be found on VanGaalen’s moody third full-length album Soft Airplane, released in September of 2008. Like many of his songs, Rabid Bits of Time dances with the universal concept of our mortality, and the consequence of said mortality. For more from Soft Airplane, check out City of Electric Light here, and Willow Tree here.
You’ve been dead for years,
but you never knew.
And the rabid bits of time
have been eating you.
But no one knows where we go…
no one knows where we go,
when we’re dead or when we’re dreaming.
oooh-woo ooo… (x4)
And you’ve been dead for Years,
but you never knew…
and the rabid bits of Time
have been eating you…
No one knows where we go…
no one knows where we go,
when we’re dead or when we’re dreaming

