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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electric piano*
I start off each morning with my favorite drug
Cook it up in the kitchen and take a slug
Coffee so black it helps me to wake
Prepared to attack the problems I face
Maybe it's keeping my blood pressure high…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electronics and glitchy beats*
I had a friend with a problem that everyone ignored
Pretending not to notice when he fell onto the floor
Never asked a question when he showed up late
Lacerations from a situation
Bruises…
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*Electronic rock. Sounds like* **_IAMX_** *and* **_Depeche Mode_**
This is much better than it’s ever been before
Much more real
More rich
More speed
More more
I feel like I could go forever and it only hurts when I stop
This is much…
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*Electronic rock with jungle/drum-and-bass influence*
I've never really felt that I was ever good enough
But even I can be improved if I just stay tough
My teeth are metal reinforced
My eyes are plastic lens
And daemons run inside my head…
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Original working title was something like, "And after six years I finally understood why they sing in the streets here, and could go home." It's sort of about anonymity in the modern city. If that sounds pretentious, that's because it is.
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Easily my favourite track on the album. This was a real forced number at the start of it's life; I was well behind my song quota (5 finished on the 23rd... time to worry) and I needed to knock something out at least. Something clicked about an…
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A song that ended up in an entirely different place than from where it began. It was meant to have a dark 'David Gray' kind of feel, but ended up being the love child of 'Love and Rockets' and 'Stars on 45.'
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A song that really crept out of nowhere and one that I don't entirely understand its meaning. Some things in the song I can pinpoint the origin, but some I haven't a clue. I'm really happy with the way it turned out - semi-ok vocal and all.
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A blatant attempt at exploiting the deep well of The Jesus and Mary Chain/Pixies/Raveonettes/House of Love. A lovingly loud, shiny and guitar-laden paean to those great bands.
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This song has been hobbling around half-written in my psyche for eons, and it took the RPM Challenge to finally finish it!
Like many of my generation, my first peek into the world of women (and what they looked like under their clothes) was National…
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*My take on something like a* **_Neil Young_** *song ("After The Goldrush" meets "Revolution Blues"?)*
*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
Well I woke in a cold sweat from a dreamless sleep
The winds were blowing papers through the empty…
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*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
You can hear it just below the blowing wind
Feel it in the nerves beneath your skin
Catch a glimpse as you drift away at night
But you can’t decode the meaning inside
Distant shrieking sets your teeth…
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*"We all live in a little Village...your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners." -* **_Patrick McGoohan_**
Modern electronic guitar rock.
One day you awaken in a different place
Where the names…
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The Trinity and Humanity. An interview of Tim Chester by Andrew Cook for the radio programme, Serving Today. www.gbm.org.uk/radio.
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you tell me what you want
you tell what you need
i cant give you nothing honey
but this pretty little seed
where has the sun gone
and is it gone forever
will it come back someday
should we just give it some time
i ask you what…
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you are like the rain that falls with the snow
or is it the other way around
i dont know
all i know is i love you
and cant get above you
it is driving with no place to go
the muscle and the bone i find
that keeps my heart in line
just…
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Another attempt at a Carol Kaye-bassline, slightly more succesfull. I quite like how this turned out although it's kinda slick and not something I could really use in another context (it just sounds like I didn't make it myself which I quite like…
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This started sounding quite Nick Caveish and at the same time I wanted to do something with Joe Meek; so it's a murderballad-variation on Johnny Remember me. There's stylophone and theremin in there. The theremin is quite effective at some points…
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The Dutch painter Mondrian was apparantly a fervent dancer to Boogie Woogie and that image stuck because he seems such a stiff guy otherwise. So I thought that would make a funny subject for a dance-tune. Normally I wouldn't make a song about…
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Here the idea was that I was going to write from the viewpoint of someone who is paralyzed from the neck down and can through technology only watch other peoples life but not participate. It turned out a bit more general and ambiguous than that.
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Hurtling towards oblivion thanks to a giant catapult owned by a foul-mouthed voodoo child, he sends a final lewd finger gesture back to the world he sought escape from.
Unbeknownst to him, Voodoo Boy may have a vested interest in using him…
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The monitors of the omniverse are bored out of their mind, and wish something would happen to break the monotony.
There are some things that transcend the laws of physics - Murphy's Law is one of those things.
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May be a little soft for…
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Oh crap - somebody broke the multiverse. I should have known those #?%! black holes were a serious security flaw.
We were really meaning to fix that, but never got around to it. (It would have cut into our golf time.)
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Even the cosmos needs system maintenance. When its IT department decides to delete something, sometimes that something doesn't want to go without a fight. Even computer viruses will do what they can to avoid the reaping hand of a virus checker…
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Rough sketch of a proposed dreamy 12 string piece that I couldn't pull off on the 12 string so did this quick electric version with vocal pads. Not sure of the recording quality- sounds OK in my cans and kinda crappy on my monitors. Recorded march…
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An instrumental song about happiness and puppies and vampires and possibly vampire puppies.
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Just under the wire (it's Feb 28, 23:47 in my timezone)... last track for RPM09
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The cosmic equivalent of standing on a ledge and jumping off, except, like Mr. Hawking established, black holes sometimes regurgitate their meals - the original matter is usually corrupted in the process.
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From the RPM 2009 album: "Like A…
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From the RPM Challenge 2009 album - "Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets":
Native American Industrial?
Sample credits will appear with album info once posted.
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sung by my family for my mum's upcoming birthday
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Written while awaiting a CD from one of the artists who participated in the 08 version of RPM.
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One of my best melodies, but I can't seem to get the vocals right. Would welcome any one else who might want to take a crack at it.
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Sequoia Memories...Capo @ 5
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Off the coast of California
Where the dolphins ride the waves
We stood and watched them from the cliffs above
Until the sunlight went away
Then we slept in ancient shadows
Underneath the redwood trees…
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Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
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Title track to my RPM09 album.
Mostly ukulele and vocal, with a few other things thrown in.
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02 – Falling Down Again. Written 17th/18th Feb. Recorded 17th/18th/19th Feb.
A slightly schizophrenic pop song, with a vocal section that also betrays me wanting to be a Beach Boy. Worryingly there is actually a red sticky trickle that seeps…
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[Thanks to Helen and Colin for coming to my aid with the warblings! :) ]
When You Least Expect It
And you're out to dry
And its all too hectic
Thats when it comes x 2
And it feels electric
And you feel alive
Cos when you least expect…
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I heard a story about you
I didnt want it to be true
But it felt like it might
You, well it was all about you
and how the things that you do
Seem strangely undone
And life doesnt help out the weak
A lifetime tends to bring you some…
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Well I been playing the blues for so long
Kinda feel like playing jazz x 2
I dig the random instrumentation.
Play this in eight over three and a half
I been playing the blues for so long, make me feel like tryna rap x 2
I think I'll call…
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It's another war song. The lyrics pretty much tell the feeling behind this one.
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This is a quirky piece. I'm not really sure if the sounds go together but I kind of like it. I made this piece with Reason 4.
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This song is a theme song (sung by Liz and accompanied by a simple ukulele tune) for an imaginary tv show about a guy who was kind of a dick and died at work and now haunts the new guy's cubicle, generally fucking his shit up, knocking stuff over…
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too many woman have been abused, mostly by people they know.
This song is for them.
Eyes and ears have been shut for to long now.
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This song was inspired by the Life of Pi...and yes, i feel like a drifter at times, floating, going no where.
I've been drifting
i've been drifting for days
going no where
being driven by the waves
driven mad by the wind and her voices…
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Sitting in the Denver airport; watching people walk on by...
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Don't cry over spilt milk, it is nothing, there's more in the fridge.
From December 2007.
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A very minimalist song from our “In My Mind” album.
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simple song. i believe this was the original recording of it. originally a track off of the 21 grams album, "Identities". Peter Hochstedler played a beautiful lead guitar on it.
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More testing. An improv demo for the Breaking Light project for the RPM Challenge.
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Rough and Slow acoustic version of the more poppy [lifeline glu and sudara collaboration](http://alonetone.com/doublemeanings/tracks/lifeline).
If you like 4 minutes of the same 3 chords, you'll LOVE this song.
Now that I have two microphones…
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Definitely one of the more “approachable” songs from our debut album “In My Mind”.
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a short exploration of the fugal possibilities of a chinese musical mode....
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Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.
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What happened after too much time on youtube watching live vids of "voodoo chile" Noisy obnoxious and very cathartic for me! Live to 2tracks with the Jamman
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Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
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This is the first 100% Liz-written song! Hooray!
It's about a shitty party I went to on New Year's Eve. It sucked really hard. My bandmate MK was on antibiotics and couldn't drink, and this guy kept passing us by way too close getting his ass…
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Another of my kinda ambient things. Goes on too long and needs a melody, but was fun to get lost in while doing it
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A one man project from the Montreal region, experimenting with new harmonic ideas based on intervallic design. Influenced by modern rock acts such as Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, Tool, the Mars Volta, etc, the project is looking for fresh new…
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somehow I always end up singing about lost love...
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It is created between the cracks. it is amplified. if you listen, you feel the space between time. it is created in a life without time. caught in a shadow of light. nothing can exist here. but this does. it is beautiful. it is ephemeral. it is gone.
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Traditional Irish Reel - Released on the companion CD to the book "Heart of a Mother." Guitar, penny whistle, accordion, drum loops.
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Trad (Reel) - I learned this reel from a Bothy Band album. Flatpicking acoustic guitar - backup in DADGAD, tune played in standard.
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We are still working on making some words for this song. We like to make up silly titles for songs before we have the lyrics, so the title is just kind of random. Liz does everything on this track, with the help of Garageband.
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Spaghetti Party was our first foray into recording a complete song. MK came up with the idea of writing a song about her friend/co-worker who has "spaghetti parties" which involve him lying on his back on a couch in the basement by himself shoveling…
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Recorded: December 2004
Guitar: EBEGAD
Lap Steel: EBEEBE
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When I put these last 3 songs on itunes, my computer did something weird. It told me that these songs were already out there on the internet somewhere. So, in order not to infringe on any copyright laws, I would like to assure everyone that NONE…
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Solo acoustic guitar recorded January 2nd 2009. Hope to do a longer more developed version at some point ,but for now just a short version to learn more about using new DAW software.
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the most awesome thing ever recorded by anyone, anywhere, at anytime in the entire history of recorded things. It's true.
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this is a song by my niece Clara. She's 4. the lalalala's are Noah's (6) contribution.
Recorded Christmas day 2008.
Happy New Year all alonetoners!
glad to be here.
t.
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Yo-Yo Ma uploaded this cello part on indabamusic and invited others to create with it. I thought it was a cool idea. I had help with this christmas song from Matthiew, a wandering Parisian trumpet player.
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This was the first song Shreya played me, and she said it came to her in a dream, and I believe it. It's flooring, and her vocals/acoustic guitar are relatively untouched. I added the other virtual instruments, and if you listen carefully, you…
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A cover of The Black Keys' track of the same name. Recorded Christmas 2008.
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i'm not sure if i like this song. it has a ruff sort of flow and recording. i was thinking of adding some mellow synth backing to help it sound full but i don't want to start that now, so i wont.
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This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
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The title was partly inspired by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, partly inspired by the circus sound it has.
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Esta Muestra hace parte del Metodo para Tocar Musica Carranguera de www.carranga.org . Publicado con fines educativos y sin animo de lucro.
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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The longing is authentic. What more can I say.
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it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0
hw: quicksilver…
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This is the first real attempt at recording this properly and its got some way to go. It needs a guitar solo and vocoders and so on. But this is some of what I did in my 24 hour slot. I battled with my vocoders and lost :(
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An electric monk is a device which believes in things for you so you don't have to (Dirk Gently). This is a quick little rif.
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One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield.
I said to myself, "Sweet Rain."
I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…
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...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie.
A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old bandmate coming to visit after moving away to Indiana. this is a true story.
remember me
when I slept with your wife
and you didn't kill me
remember me
when we played in that band
and toured…
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this is the first song I wrote for my wife. it is an actually step by step of our first date.
she opened the door and stood there smiling
this exchange between us lasted forever
so i took her in my car and went to eat some vietnamese food…
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
This is my personal favorite of the 5 jams.
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This is another song snippet from my experimentations with Reason 4.
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an experimental piece,exploring the musical landscape,which is a palindrome,given that the second track is the first,reversed
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A failed attempt to sing a song of the glorious banana breakfasts served by P.P. in "Gravity's Rainbow"
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What seemed like the solution to a deficit of music after having been up for 40 hours - FillBot is available in 2 minute increments, inquire within.
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At the end of this piece there is a hidden track.
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an exposition,traditional of the raga,bilaskani todi,transformed into a slightly ,dark ambient piece of music,exploring musical landscapes,with a scenario,as if for film music,which my pieces normally are.
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an exposition,traditional,of the raga ,bilaskani todi,transformed into a slightly dark ambient piece of music,exploring musical landscapes,inspired by a scenario,as if for a film,which my music normallt is.
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I decided to tap into my latent '80s Depeche Mode subconscious, and this bouncy tune popped out! Ian Beardsley heard an earlier version of this and immediately detected Spanish flamenco hidden in the techno dance chords. I opened up the stage…
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I do three things after waking up these days: I shower. I make coffee. I play this song and drink my coffee.
Nothing complicated. Nothing fancy. Just some basic fingerpicking to test my motor skills and bring some aural sunshine into my day.
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Just a mellow track I whipped up last night before bed. The field recording is from the Peruvian Amazon- I forget which habitat it was recorded in, but my guess is near bamboo... during the morning.
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A song about not wanting to feel for someone that has treated you badly and left you behind.
Despite having these feelings you still feel this person is above you. As they fly freely and you're left lost on the ground.
When they come flying…
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when your stuck but you see where you're going.
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One wonders what the source of fuel would be..
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I sang and played acoustic and electric guitars, bass, and Moog synthesizer on this track.
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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