Jont - Story Behind The Song 11: Teardrops & Pennies (Official Audio) - Video
PUBLISHED:  Jun 14, 2013
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Like Supernatural, this song is long and slow and has an endless capacity to allow me to completely invest myself in it emotionally every time I sing it, thoughtlessly, trusting that if I just let myself go completely there is enough in the purity of its framework to allow me to go to deeper and deeper places as the years go by.

As I write this I am currently on my first tour of small venues in Canada's Eastern provinces (June 2013) and both these songs -- Supernatural and Teardrops & Pennies -- have been good companions: providing me with solace on nights when the audience has been scarce, and providing an emotional climax to my show and proof of the profundity of my journey thus far when an audience has been there.

Most who have seen me live know the story behind T&P -- the day after standing by the side of a Highway in Queensland, Australia and sending a prayer of love to my daughter (who at that stage was only an inkling in my mind's eye), I sat in the garden of the house the universe had helped me find in Sydney and finished off the song I had started in my friend Oonagh's car, sat outside a village hall in a small country village called Murgon, while she sat inside listening to a talk from a couple called AJ & Mary who thought they were the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalen.

I had started meditating for the first time a couple of weeks before - chanting a word I had fortuitously mis-heard (Jwong not Jong) while imagining a golden ball of light in my abdomen -- and it felt like a massively significant and transformative moment, as if I had finally been given the first tools in my toolbox to help me keep myself in shape happiness-wise and progress towards helping others more. The words in T&P relate directly to this experience of what meditation had brought me.

The next night after writing T&P I would sit in the basement bar in Bondi and play my weekly residency gig and be more present than ever before, play in a more connected and deeper way than ever before. I would finally know what it felt like to have arrived. I understood the place of presence where all my heroes -- Dylan, Van Morrison, John Lennon -- had been singing from. I knew that I just needed to stay here, and I would be doing my job. I woudn't need to strive off balance, continually grasping. I was here, the race was over...and freed up like that, it was so much clearer to see that indeed I did have all this love for you...
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