I started out writing a song about the names of colors – but somehow I ended up in the periodic table, at the element Radium.
Radium is:
A love song about radioactivity.
A song about the feeling when you discover something.
And a song about Marie Curie, who found something deadly over 100 years ago.
Like a movie, the lyric starts in orbit around a star and then zooms in like a camera to a town, a house and a room upstairs where Marie Curie discovers radium.
The music: Radium is a rocker. It's loud. It's distorted. It's a little sweet. It's influenced by bands like Talking Heads, The Cure, and Leonard Cohen.
Lyrics
Lyrics
Around a star there is a world
In the world there is a land
on the land there is a road
on the road there is a town
In the town there is a house
And the house it has a door
past the door up the stairs
at the top there is a room
in the room there is a table
on the table is a stone
in the room there sits a woman
who studies it alone
Marie Marie
What have you found
Marie Marie
Deep underground
You call it radium
You call it radium
You call it radium
You call it radium
Atomic Clock
It never stops
Atomic Clock
It never stops