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Time's Day Off

by Jswetch

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The gist of this song is that people have personified Time. The Greeks did that in the form of Chronos. If Time is personified, then I can imagine that like the rest of us, Time might need a day off from time to time. In this case, Time, moving on hard as ever, does just that. This is Time taking that day off, enjoying the down time, and then getting back to the grind. Once back in the routine, that day off is still there as a nice memory that can take over for a short time (and making us look ahead to the next opportunity).
It can also be looked at as what can happen when, for whatever reason, you're "in the zone". It's possible to become so absorbed in an activity that the sense of time disappears to the point that you almost temporarily existed "outside of time". In that sense, it's like Time did take a day off, and left us alone for however of a brief respite it might've been.
Musically, this started many years ago in a much denser version that incorporated several things now removed from the track. I found my old working copy of the song and got it going in my current DAW. I removed what seemed to be extraneous, and kept the electric guitars, fretless bass, drums, and one of the synth parts. I newly added the 6 string bass heard on "the day off", the nylon stringed acoustic guitar, and the synth that sounds a little like a French Horn. It was all newly mixed and mastered.

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released January 8, 2024
No help from others on this. It was all written, played, programmed, produced, engineered, and recorded by yours truly here at Swetchsongs studios, first about 10 years ago, but newly worked on as 2023 became 2024.
This version ASCAP (C) Swetchsongs 2024. Photo by John Schwetje

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Jswetch New York

Jswetch is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with many years of playing experience in varied settings. He's influenced by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Neil Finn, John McLaughlin, XTC, Oregon, Todd Rundgren, Keith Jarrett, Weather Report, The Beatles, Hendrix, Jack Bruce, 70's Prog, Pat Metheny, and Fairport Convention. A little of all this filters into his own unique songs, sound, and musical vision. ... more

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