I remember getting really excited about It’s Just A Ride when I just recorded it. I had originally been concentrating on songwriting when I began experimenting on my first Tascam, and while I had done some sound experimenting, I never considered working with primarily electronic sounding music until just before I began recording “You Do What You Can” in Jackson Heights. In retrospect, I wish this record was a bit shorter, but I’m proud of how this turned out nonetheless.
The song title comes from a Bill Hicks quote:
The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real cause that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly colored and it’s very loud. And it’s fun, for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, ‘Hey – don’t worry, don’t be afraid ever, because this is just a ride.’
…and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
