Wanted to Get Right

In the booklet with the CD the song is Wanted to Get Right, but on the CD cover, the CD track list, and on the Ten Club site, the song is Get Right. That was the first source of confusion. After one listen today I had no clue what the song was about. After two listens, I saw two songs emerge, and I had no clue what the two parts were about, and then after three listens a story started to form, and I saw a flow between the first part and the second part. Yippee! I feel like I'm not in sync with the band if I can't understand the words.

Anyway this is the story that emerged. Someone is laying low at night, possibly escaping something, or maybe a military operation that works at night. Someone is stealth. Definitely at some sort of end, physically exhausted as water is sunshine, and what is keeping this person going is the moment in the future when the protagonist is with his partner. When they are together, they will experience something the protagonist can not experience at that time, possibly warmth, maybe the protagonist is cold in the night, searching for an answer to what keeps him in the night so he can go back to his partner. Once they are back together their relationship and circumstances are such that he doesn't only have to focus on physical survival. You know the music goes very well with a James Bond-esque/espionage/war type of story.

The second part sounds like it's more in the past. The first part is more in the present. In the second part the focus is to stay alert, to look around him and see what his actions represent, what is his philosphy. He still has the capacity to think in those terms. That is how he evaluates the necessary strategies for whatever job he has to do. Maybe he saw himself as part of the dregs of society, those that are unnoticed. Maybe he needs to be unnoticed to complete his job. His job is important, he is commissioned to find the answer, the needle in the haystack in order for his job to be complete, and he can return to the existence where living can include touching. So, in the past, the focus is on the philosophy of what he was doing, in the present, the focus is on survival, and the expected future, the focus is on reconciling what is available beyond physical survival, and what he has done because of philosophy. I could see how this fits with the rest of the album.