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So I’m working on a concept record, not quite a rock opera, about the end of the world (seems to be a lot of that going around). It’s a companion to a novel I’m writing about the same subject. A family holes up in a house while apocalypse falls. Then UFOs land. This is a three-part song, during the war.
I’m going to make a pre-emptive strike against any comments that say “Less is more.” I like layering like this until it becomes a wall of sound.
I’m going to make a pre-emptive strike against any comments that say “Less is more.” I like layering like this until it becomes a wall of sound.
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Lyrics
Oh my dear world will you leave us alone
We’re independent of what has gone wrong
We need the time to work out our lives
If we do not we will hate you in time
That might be wrong but that's the way it is
We’re in a prison of others’ ideas
They need the time to work out their lives
If they are wrong do we deserve to die
Come on peace, you arrive today, on the way
What a relief, we will pass away
What’s beneath the silver lining, is it peace or is it dying?
We’re independent of what has gone wrong
We need the time to work out our lives
If we do not we will hate you in time
That might be wrong but that's the way it is
We’re in a prison of others’ ideas
They need the time to work out their lives
If they are wrong do we deserve to die
Come on peace, you arrive today, on the way
What a relief, we will pass away
What’s beneath the silver lining, is it peace or is it dying?
Ed Hannifin
The opening reminds me of some old Dave Mason, and also of Bowie's Five Years and Soul Love from Ziggy Stardust.... At first I thought the opening was too dry, too bare, but then as the layers accrue, that dryness seems to help the parts stay clear...
Once everything gets full, I just love the cascading picking patterns...
I love the French horn-ish sounds against the arpeggiated chords as you make the second transition....
I think your voice comes into its own in the second and third bits, while in the first it sounds more tentative, as if not as sure of the melody. Or maybe it's just that you're doubling yourself towards the end.
I'm really enjoying this. I think I'm into my third or fourth listen, and I can't wait to listen on headphones.
Ed