From A Spark To A Song – Firstborn

2. “Firstborn”

From all the emotions defining the album “Vague Souvenir”, the ones that unexpectedly emerged from the song “Firstborn” have been the most difficult and painful to personally embrace, deeply embody and publicly assume. Words and sounds unfolded themselves in an undeniable truth; no matter how deep I had buried some of the most personal and intimate of all emotional distress and sorrows, even the most shadowing of all wandering darkness wouldn’t be able to veil a desperate heart and grieving soul from the redeeming light of a sincere whisper for mercy and grace. As much as “Mightiest Of Guns” had been the honest nature by which “Vague Souvenir” would be founded, “Firstborn” has been the soulful essence of absolution the album’s journey would be about…

It’s no secret, especially if you are familiar with my affection towards scribbling mystical words and my propensity to use liturgical symbolism, that I have always been intrigued by the measure of faith implicitly involved in the personal beliefs and spiritual convictions of conceptual doctrines defining the likes of High Principles such as mercy, redemption, forgiveness and salvation, only to mention a few… all elements of a profound interrogational journey I have been exploring since childhood from which some of my lyrics and other pieces of poetry are inspired from, reflected by and referring to (the lyrics of Final Fantasy theme song “The Messenger” being metaphorically about the Passover). Read More »

If you have to be…

This week, we introduce you to the song “Firstborn”, the second transit on this special journey called Vague Souvenir. Performed live on the set of the Bla Bla Bla: The Live Show on June 3rd, as the journey was only beginning, this song had yet to make us travel to various other places. This blog doesn’t aim at giving you any explanation of what “Firstborn” should be, but simply to provide you with some different personal perspectives about the song… A song can never be fully defined… You may examine and analyze the words, the notes, the melodies, but emotions are not bent to any logical explanation… In this blog, I present you how life changing the song has been for me… Read More »