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You now sometimes you hear a song by someone else and are moved to use it as inspiration, but something more than a cover, something that involves your own creation? This happened to me when I first heard Michael Hedges' Lenono. I contacted Michael's estate to get permission to create a derivative of this most amazing guitar solo and then proceeded to cut it up and create an entirely new work from it. I hope you enjoy it.
The lyrics are inspired by Suzanne. They are meant to be impressionistic, unfolding, true.
I offer this as a deep and abiding tribute to one of the greatest guitar talents I have even known.
Michael Hedges: acoustic guitar
Elliot Friedman: additional guitar
Tobin: vocals, Indian flute, percussion & samples programming, lyrics
The lyrics are inspired by Suzanne. They are meant to be impressionistic, unfolding, true.
I offer this as a deep and abiding tribute to one of the greatest guitar talents I have even known.
Michael Hedges: acoustic guitar
Elliot Friedman: additional guitar
Tobin: vocals, Indian flute, percussion & samples programming, lyrics
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Lyrics
BEFORE THERE WERE GODS
Before there were gods,
Before we knew the difference,
Before there were lines that marked the land
between here and there,
You knew me. That’s what you said. You said
You knew me (you knew I was there)
with a love that reached beyond the dead.
Beyond the turning of the world
Beyond the burning of each life I’ve led.
Before there was time,
Before we traveled through it,
We gathered like pilgrims to stand at the edge
of all known land.
On the shoreline
the waves can play like children.
On the shoreline
the footprints wash away.
At the end of the world before there were gods.
At the end of the world...
There are seagulls that cry as the lovers swim by
near the feet of a savior, standing.
There are layers of clouds forming words in the sky
and we read them in swirls, as they can be
when the waters rise.
When the waters rise.
(Rain down to me.)
And I stand here,
with my mouth opened wide,
hoping to catch you,
like the rain.
And I stand and I trace, in this pilgrim place,
all the lines that we made
in the sand.
Again.
Before there were gods,
Before we knew the difference,
Before there were lines that marked the land,
You knew me. That’s what you said. You said
You knew me.
Before there were gods.
Before there were gods,
Before we knew the difference,
Before there were lines that marked the land
between here and there,
You knew me. That’s what you said. You said
You knew me (you knew I was there)
with a love that reached beyond the dead.
Beyond the turning of the world
Beyond the burning of each life I’ve led.
Before there was time,
Before we traveled through it,
We gathered like pilgrims to stand at the edge
of all known land.
On the shoreline
the waves can play like children.
On the shoreline
the footprints wash away.
At the end of the world before there were gods.
At the end of the world...
There are seagulls that cry as the lovers swim by
near the feet of a savior, standing.
There are layers of clouds forming words in the sky
and we read them in swirls, as they can be
when the waters rise.
When the waters rise.
(Rain down to me.)
And I stand here,
with my mouth opened wide,
hoping to catch you,
like the rain.
And I stand and I trace, in this pilgrim place,
all the lines that we made
in the sand.
Again.
Before there were gods,
Before we knew the difference,
Before there were lines that marked the land,
You knew me. That’s what you said. You said
You knew me.
Before there were gods.
Suzanne
so many times during this song i get goosebumps. the opening flute. the first guitar phrase. the "rain down to me" section. the quick elliot runs flitting like birds. the seagulls/flute duet. and then thinking of what the words mean to us. thank you for creating this tribute to both mr. hedges and us, and keeping something wonderful alive. a beautiful, elegant track.