cEvin Key :::
"The saddest thing that ever happened to me was Bird.
This was shortly after Dwayne had died, and I was just
running on some sort of energy, I don't know how. This
particular day I went to studio and I drove. I parked 3
levels down in the parkade and noticed there was a large
seagull down there with me. I am an animal lover and I
started to feel like I should help the bird find its
way out of the building. So I proceeded to escort the
bird out past many cars and things that were obviously
scaring the bird. When I appraoched the exit and to
the street, I expected the bird to fly out, and it
appeared that he couldn't fly, so he started just
walking down the street crossing without looking
and by then I realised I had a bad situation being
downtown in Vancouver with a large bird walking into
intersections as I was stopping traffic. I started to
feel very sad, and as I turned around the bird stepped
off the sidewalk and a taxi ran over it right in front
of me. I heard the sound of it being crushed and just
lost it. I was crying my head off, and I ran up to the cab and
told him what he did, I couldn't even believe it. I went up to the
studio and it took me hours to be able to stop crying. Then somehow I just
started to play that chord and it started speaking to me. Easily my
most emotional memory of any song I've done."
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