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SECRETS OF THE NEW EXPLORERS by Glen Phillips (2008)

Glen Phillips is a Santa Barbara, California-based veteran musician and a founder, in the late 1980s, of the alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket, which found commercial success with two platinum CDs and movie soundtracks and TV programs that included their songs.  Since 1998, Glen has recorded and performed in a solo career as well as in periodic reunions of the band.  The present six-track concept EP, inspired by private space travel, includes the cryptic, melodic track The Spirit of Shackleton, which hints at Shackleton as space explorer.  We asked Glen about the background for the track and he told us, “I love the story of Shackleton and the Endurance.  In my song, the spacecraft is named The Spirit of Shackleton. Unfortunately, my small crew seems to have had a few issues with either manslaughter or murder (I’m not entirely sure, as I wasn’t there and there were no 3rd party accounts of what took place), which is entirely un-Shackleton in its nature, aside from extreme cold and a very remote location.”  The lyrics are: “This is no exaggeration, I truly am alone a hundred million clicks and eight long months from home. But I’m holding to my promise, I’ll land and plant the flag for God and corporation and the greater good of man.  There’s no law that can touch me, my sins are mine to keep, I’m a rocket, I’m an island and on my shore she sleeps.  I’m not coming back from here, I’ve been too far now, I’m cold but I’m not scared, in the Spirit of Shackleton.  Pretty droplets of crimson surround me as they drift, bonding together or bursting into mist, so I open up my mouth to them and offer out my tongue.  They are salty and sweet like the memory of love.  I’m not coming back from here, I’ve been too far, I’m cold but I’m not scared and I’m unshackled.  I’m not coming back from here, I’ve been too far, I’m cold but I’m not scared in the Spirit of Shackleton.” Umami Music; www.glenphillips.com; www.myspace.com/glenphillips

 

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