Entropy

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Love and the 2nd Law Of Thermodynamics? Yeah, right. Somebody wrote that the song oscillated between a bluegrass feel and a “Jewish” vibe. That tickled me a bit. I think I can see where he was coming from now, though. So you learn something new every day.

The 2nd Law certainly has application to the life of my guitar strings, the shortness of which has cost me a small fortune over the years – which in turn has contributed to the entropy of my bank balance and the atrophy of my abilities to buy more guitars. The last which, I guess, proves the cyclical nature of the Universe since it puts a natural limit on the number of sets of guitar strings for which I can directly be the cause of the further application of the 2nd Law. This all might have been fertile ground for the composition of another verse to the song, but composition about decomposition is not something for which I have any heart.

Entropy

Her loving baby
came to her one night
In the middle of the month of May
And she don’t know why they come And they do not stay

Every Venus and Mars;
every spinning star
Sooner or later fade away
And she don’t know why they come
And. they do not stay

Oceans will rise
continents fall
as sure as night follows day
And she don’t know why they come
And they do not stay

© 2006 Dave Keir