Saved
A Demo a Day: Day Five.
Saved and the previous number, Tomorrow, were composed in 2020, over a decade after the rest of the opera was completed. When I dusted off the libretto in preparation for recording the demos, I realized that I had left a big hole in the development of the characters and decided to fix it.
Saved, a soulful trip hop ballad, is the personalized flipside to Prepare Yourself. Evangelism is a contact sport, and here Maggie tries to close the deal with Thomas. She relates her backstory as a troubled soul who found salvation, and explains to him that he can too-- if he will only open his heart. Thomas, hoping that he can find a way out of his nihilistic funk, and willing to try anything, agrees to give it a go. It doesn’t hurt that he finds Maggie wildly attractive.