Words Can't Describe (from 'Music for a Story-Telling')

Written in 1991 and 1995 / Recorded in 1995 and 2013

Basically, as far as the music concerns, my conceptual work titled Music for a Story-Telling is a collection of re-workings of my past compositions written in 1991; either works I wrote for a band that couldn't exist long enough to perform it, and/or works for a students’ theatrical project called Zone. This tune is solely based on a theme tune originally written for the latter occasion.

Despite the difference in arrangement, basically this track has a reprise function of  Departure, a track placed earlier in the conceptual work.  Both tracks are mainly attributed to accommodate a character called Suetree, the Poet, to reveal his inner thoughts; whilst Departure features another character Kelp, the Intruder, Words Can't Describe solely consists of Suetree's subjective monologue. The Poet's mood here is blue, so is the arrangement of the same chord progression of the Poet's theme, which I originally wrote for the said students' project.

As for re-writing of this tune, it took place after I had once finished working on the demo version of conceptual work sometime in 1994. At that time, I thought the work was completed, however, since the recording of its band version was still going on, so was the reviewing of the entire work, which made me decide to make some changes and one of which was to additionally write this tune as a replacement of the closing track for the Part Two. As for inspirations for writing this tune, I have no reason to deny I owed to the influence from Al Kooper's some brass rock stuff and to awkward thoughts and fantasies revealed from one of my ex-girlfriends.

In making this video, I newly added some extra parts to the original recording and inserted related footage from the students' performance, captured live in December 1991.