Maybe I Can’t – David Duchovny (Lyrics Video) || and I’m back with a new lyric video for David’s song Maybe I Can’t, thanks for sharing the last one as well 🙂
The name of the album (and title track) is a callback in a line in The Tempest—“Like any English major, I’m a big Shakespeare guy.” The specific line, delivered by Prospero, is an introspection of one’s own mortality: “Every third thought shall be my grave.” To Duchovny, the line speaks of obsession with death. But the album, and song, is more about romantic obsession than a mortal one. The album has no main thematic core, but it has several recurring topics.
“The song [“Every Third Thought”] is about my dad. The song is about death, moving on,” he said. “There’s a lot of songs about loss or songs about love. There’s a couple of lighter songs as well. The only things that holds them together is that they’re all from my mind.”
The loss of life and love intermingle sometimes, as they do on the album’s first single, “Half Life.” “Unconditional love decays/ Only fossilized hearts can break,” he sings. On the ballad “Jericho,” Duchovny sings about visiting his father’s grave for a sign or guidance on how to live his life, which “never comes.” And on the chugging “When The Whistle Blows,” he again looks at the past: “We can’t undo the hurt that’s been done/ We can’t un-win the battle we’ve won.“
David is a busy man, so I couldn’t talk his ear off about various Scully theories all day long (although I wanted to)! He thanked me every time I said I enjoyed anything he’d written or a performance he’d given, and it was a very lovely interview experience. He was respectful and attentive, and that is rare in a celebrity of his status. Yes, he is super hot in person. No, I thankfully did not swoon, and I sounded like the educated human being that I am. Always nice when I can pull that off!
Just Holding Hands 