After years playing violin as a session musician with the likes of John Mellencamp, Indigo Girls and Bob Dylan, Germano embarked on a solo career in 1991 with the understated but occasionally brilliant On The Way Down From The Moon Palace on her own label, which led to a deal with Capitol, who released her second album. Although Happiness was a massive step up in terms of confidence and songwriting, troubles at the label led to her buying back the rights. In 1994 4AD released a re-sequenced and remixed version of Happiness with a new sleeve and a few different tracks (including a gloomy version of the formerly scintillating ‘... Dresses’).
She turned out to be not just a great musician (she plays most of the instruments: piano, guitar, percussion and tape effects, as well as her trademark violin) and a wittily melancholy if kooky songwriter (‘I Love A Snot’, indeed), but a phenomenal arranger whose innovation and breadth of expression is comparable to PJ Harvey at her tape-mangling best.
As her style developed, so the music’s potential commercial appeal increased without compromising its uniqueness. Bright kaleidoscopes during an otherwise dark time in 4AD’s history, the following three albums, Geek The Girl, Excerpts From A Love Circus and Slide all won critical acclaim, but sadly failed to reach the wide audience they deserved; Germano was dropped in 1998, and announced her retirement from the music business.
(In 1997, she also released a collaboration with Giant Sand and future members of Calexico under the name OP8 Featuring The Ilk Of Lisa Germano).
Retirement didn’t suit her, and she was soon out on tour again, sessioning for David Bowie and Neil Finn, before, in 2003, releasing the self-funded Lullaby For Liquid Pig on ArtistDIRECT imprint Ineffable. A return to the woozy, after-the-carnival soundworld of ...Love Circus, the album was made with help from collaborators Finn, Johnny Marr and Wendy Melvoin.
Label-less again after Ineffable dissolved, Swans mainstay and longtime Germano fan Michael Gira snapped her up for his Young God label, which in 2007 released In The Maybe World, a stripped-down but ultimately hopeful reflection on mortality inspired by the death of, well, a cat, but also the imagined death of her Father. Young God subsequently reissued Liquid Pig with an extra CD of live recordings and demos, whose between-song banter highlighted Germano’s unique and cat-slanted take on life and death.
In September 2009 the album Magic Neighbor was released, again on Young God Records.
She also works with Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer
Official site: www.lisagermano.com
Around The World
Lisa Germano Lyrics
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I lost my head
It was in the waste basket
When I found it I'd give anything
To change the words the words the words that come out of it
We all do it
We make mistakes and make some more and then some
But only as much as we feel
Eyes are open
Can I really believe what I see?
Love is everywhere and I could have it
Love is everywhere and I could have it
If I see it
What a waste
What a waste to feel the way I feel
While happiness is just around the corner
'Cause happiness is just around the corner from forgiveness
Once around the world
Could I feel my way around the world
Twice around the world
Feel my way around
Okay okay
Nobody teaches how to laugh
Nobody teaches how to live
Nobody told me what to do
When life gets pretty ugly
What a waste
What a waste to feel the way I feel
While happiness is just around the corner
And love is everywhere if I could have it
If I see it
Once around the world
Twice around the world
I gotta feel my way around the world
Feel my way around
I gotta gotta feel
I gotta feel my way around
Gotta gotta feel
Gotta feel gotta feel gotta feel
Gotta gotta feel
Around my world
Around
The lyrics to Lisa Germano's "Around the World" captures the feeling of being lost and disconnected from the world while also holding hope for renewal and connection. The songwriter laments the mistakes she has made, and how she wishes she could change them. She seems to be searching for meaning and purpose, and the chorus emphasizes the idea that love and happiness are attainable if she can only see them. The line "eyes are open, can I really believe what I see?" suggests that she struggles to trust the world around her, but she desperately wants to.
The song's final lines suggest that the singer is committed to a journey of self-discovery and connection with others. She needs to "feel her way around the world" in order to find happiness and love. The repetition of "gotta feel" in the final lines suggests a sense of urgency, like the songwriter has been holding back for too long and needs to embrace the world around her fully.
Overall, "Around the World" is a lyrical and introspective song that captures the universal themes of searching for meaning, making mistakes, and seeking forgiveness and connection.
Line by Line Meaning
How can I say?
I can't find the right words to express what I'm feeling
I lost my head
I made a mistake and did something I regret
It was in the waste basket
My mistake was something I threw away, but now wish I could take back
When I found it I'd give anything
I feel such deep regret and remorse that I'm willing to do anything to make things right
To change the words the words the words that come out of it
I wish I could undo what I said or did
We all do it
Making mistakes is a universal human experience
We make mistakes and make some more and then some
Sometimes we repeat our mistakes and continue to make new ones
But only as much as we feel
Our mistakes and regrets are only as big as the emotions we attach to them
And the way the way is soon forgiveness
The only way to move forward after making a mistake is to forgive ourselves and others
Eyes are open
I'm starting to see things more clearly
Can I really believe what I see?
I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is real or just an illusion
Love is everywhere and I could have it
There is love all around me, but I need to recognize it and open myself up to it
What a waste
It's a shame that I'm not able to fully appreciate what I have
While happiness is just around the corner
I could be happy if I just let go of my regrets and accept what's in front of me
'Cause happiness is just around the corner from forgiveness
Forgiving others and myself is the key to finding happiness
Once around the world
Traveling the world wouldn't solve my problems, I need to change my perspective from within
Could I feel my way around the world
Maybe if I focused on feeling, rather than thinking, I could find my way
Twice around the world
Even if I traveled the world twice, it wouldn't necessarily bring me the clarity I'm searching for
Okay okay
I'm trying to convince myself that everything is going to be alright
Nobody teaches how to laugh
There are some things in life that can't be taught, they just come naturally
Nobody teaches how to live
We learn how to live by experiencing it for ourselves
Nobody told me what to do
I have to figure things out on my own
When life gets pretty ugly
Sometimes life can be difficult and painful
I gotta feel my way around the world
I need to trust my intuition to guide me on my journey
Gotta gotta feel
It's important that I allow myself to experience my emotions fully
Gotta feel gotta feel gotta feel
I can't run away from my emotions, I need to confront them
Around my world
I need to find my way in the world, through both the good and the bad
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: LISA GERMANO
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