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 TITLE: Three
BY: Varanese Gallo
LENGTH: 4:54
GENRE: Downtempo, trip-hop, electronica, dub
LABEL: Titanic Records
Released: November 19th, 2013
From the Album: Lover's Eyes
Three was, of course, the third song off of Vara Gallo's sophomore album "Lover's Eyes." The song was loosely based on Gallo's long-time boyfriend Trent D'amour's drug addiction struggle. In the album, she used the idea of Alice falling down the rabbit hole and entering Wonderland as a metaphor for falling into an addiction and not being able to come back out of it. Three was used as the beginning for this fall, as the two songs proceeding it - aptly named One and Two - were much faster pieces with quick tempos, while Three is much a slower and more mellow song.
The song starts off with the sounds of a pianist warming up to fully play his instrument - a few keys are played, a couple opening to other songs are started, but nothing of a full song. Then the drums start playing, greatly overshadowing the piano until it is practically unheard. The listener starts hearing the electronica of the song now, as the backbeat of the drums are Vara Gallo's calling card in the music business. Vara's voice is strong, but she sings softly through the song. Every word is filled with emotion - mostly depression and defeat. When she sings, "I've closed my eyes / Not even the start / To rest my head, so far / Nothing, nowhere, but emptiness," her voice goes up into the operatic range that she has proved to her listeners on her last album that she can easily hit. As the higher notes are met, a group of stringed instruments accompany her, giving the electronica song a much more classy feeling. After she sings the first, "Oh...," there is a long instrumental pause as the electronica beats and the strings play together for moment. Then the electric guitar joins in, playing the same notes as the stringed instruments. When Gallo starts to sing again with, "Tears of dust burn me," the guitar stays with her, now giving the song a more sinister - but familiar - sound. Gallo sings in her normal, low voice throughout the next verse until she comes to, "I've closed my eyes," again, where her voice returns to those higher octaves. As she sings the final verses, an echo effect is put on her voice - although the echo of Vara's voice is made to seem much higher than she is actually singing. This effect gives the feeling that a choir of angels are singing with Vara throughout the end. This makes the song a little spooky, but also a little comforting, with the mental picture of Vara spinning at the bottom of the rabbit hole as unknown and unseen people with a comforting presence share in her fear and misery of choosing to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes. As the song ends, the echoes fade out with Vara's voice, and the listener is left with the piano alone again, still trying to warm up, playing the same keys and warm-up methods over and over again.
The song, worked into the theme of the album, is a basic representation of what Vara/Alice is feeling once she lands at the bottom of the rabbit hole - or, on the drug addiction side of that, how Vara feels once she comes down from her high. She is alone, rethinking the stupidity of jumping down the hole in the first place. She is, to quote the song, "... chasing defeat / Self-created misery." The song is a small pity party that she has for herself as she thinks about all the things that she could have done differently. Interestingly, she admits to herself at one point in the song that no matter what, she was going to end up going down the rabbit hole - or using drugs - because it was fate. She goes on to say, "I won't lie down / I'm already down," saying that she's not going to let this guilt - or addiction - get her down. The line "I'm already down," could address the idea of the story of already being at the bottom of the rabbit hole, but it could also go with the theme of drug addiction, saying that she won't let herself get down emotionally now that she's already down, off the drugs. She's already in the rabbit hole - or already in the midst of addiction - and there's nothing left for her to do but find a way out. The chorus: "I've closed my eyes / Not even the start / To rest my head, so far / Nothing, nowhere, but emptiness," is sung snidely and bitterly as Vara/Alice is openly angry with herself and her body for giving up rather then standing and fight for her own life. "Tears of dust burn me," she sings as the next verse starts, the idea of her standing up and trying to find her way back to the real world - or the sober world - starting. She's so exhausted that she cannot even muster tears, but she still stands up - "I've put my feet down / Firmly on the ground" - and tells herself that she can't go back in time to stop herself from jumping down the rabbit hole - or taking that first hit - so now she has to do whatever she can to get back out. The listeners are left with a final mental scene of Vara/Alice walking into the darkness of the unknown, ready to find whatever is waiting for her, covered in dust and fear, like a lone soilder returning from the war.
Oh...
I'm chasing defeat
Self-created misery
Where will this end
Where did it begin
I won't lie down
I'm already down
I rest my step and fall
Into the hole
I've closed my eyes
Not even the start
To rest my head, so far
Nothing, nowhere but emptiness
Oh...
Tears of dust burn me
I'm so tired and weary
I've put my feet down
Firmly on the ground
There's no way to overcome
What I've done
I've missed my step and lost all control
I've closed my eyes
Not even the start
To rest my head so far
Nothing, nowhere, but emptiness
Oh, ohSOUNDS LIKE:
Sneaker Pimps - Half Life
Edited by user 22 November 2013 22:39:31(UTC)
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