http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjCueBQG-RY

So in a lighthearted, feel-good, New Year vibe, here is a song about how to outrun depression.  I run a lot and it came to me the other day whilst running down a narrow lane, that as a child I was always irritated by cartoon characters who ran and ran across the screen being chased.   Surely there was a more sophisticated solution, I reasoned.  Of course the lack of sophistication was in the animation but I wasn’t aware of that at the time.  I then made the emotional connection that I’d been doing the same in dealing with a recent bout of depression (the first for a long time).  I like the idea of living in 3D whilst the depression, which seems big and scary, is actually impotently only 2D.  Ha!

I have given the song the slightly boring title of 3D.  I did toy with calling it Animation or, because I was feeling a bit Japanese,  Anime.  This lead me to think about calling it Eat The Cake Anime, in homage to Tina Turner and more recently Jay-Z and Beyonce in Drunk In Love.  I decided not to because, a) I didn’t want to glorify domestic violence b) it’s a terrible and terribly torturous pun

LYRICS:

3D

Cartoon figures run from the bad thing
They run and run background repeating
As I child I thought step to the side
Stop running in that straight line

Now the bad thing is chasing me
So I run I am so busy
Forget the wisdom of the child
Why I don’t just step to the side?

The darkness lives in 2D like cartoons
But I live in 3D

I have realms of strength I deny in the frenzy to be well, I’m running like hell
Background repeating, self-defeating
But I am and always will be living in 3D

Stop frame, stop pain
The step to the left, step to the right
Impossible in painted fiction
But easy enough if you don’t play the victim
Stop motion, stop emotion
Layers of acetate, imitate life
But I, expand with every breath
And I, more dimensional than the darkness

The darkness lives in 2D like cartoons
But I live in 3D

I have dimensions of strength I deny in the frenzy to be well, I’m running like hell
Background repeating, self-defeating
But I am and always will be living in 3D