Behind the Songs: ECLIPSE: Get Away From Me

This new batch of songs that make up Eclipse were written more in the spirit of collaboration as a band than were the songs that made up our debut album. We’re proud of that and proud of this batch of songs. And we hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we like to play them.

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Get Away From Me (Carhart, Johnson, Driml)
Lead vocal: Paul Carhart
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Misery loves company
So join me in my pain
Sit with me for awhile
You'll see you've nothing to gain

It's just you and me
Against the world, my friend
You don't really believe
This will ever come to an end

Get away from me!
I refuse your outstretched hand
Get away from me!
Today I'm gonna stand
Get away from me!

You'll never amount to much
You're just a waste of skin
Sentenced to relive pointless days
Over and over again

There's no real purpose to your life
It's all a waste of time
So take another puff of this
You're life ain't worth a dime

Get away from me!
I refuse your outstretched hand
Get away from me!
Today I'm gonna stand
Get away from me!

Misery loves company
So join me in my pain
Sit with me for awhile
You'll see you've nothing to gain

There's no real purpose to your life
It's all a waste of time
So take another puff of this
You're life ain't worth a dime

Get away from me!
I refuse your outstretched hand
Get away from me!
Today I'm gonna stand
Get away from me!

Get away from me!
Get away from me!

Notes:
Here’s one that I wrote pretty much on my own during the Launch Pad days. Had Lori not passed away, it might have one day made it onto a third LP project. It was always a pretty simple one and I imagined it very close to how it turned out. Sort of a driving, Ramones-esque (although we don’t really sound anything like The Ramones), post-punk, piece of 3-minute pop-distortion. When Mr. Charles was in the band, we attempted a reggae version, but it never gelled and, once he had moved on, this song reverted back to its post-punk-pop origins. It’s essentially an argument with the devil (or temptation, if you prefer). The verses are the devil speaking and the choruses are the rebuke. Both Scotty and Biff come out of The Program and think this is a great song for recovering addicts. And, in the spirit of punk, we opted to forego a guitar solo.