Story Behind The Song
My long awaited collaboration with friend and fellow songwriter, Alex Merlo. Alex initially wrote the piece as a film score then some years later thought that it had the potential of becoming a song - and a decidedly avant-garde song at that! He approached me to inquire if somehow a lyric could be constructed around the somewhat loose structure. The first movement is not even set to a quantized grid - take that Protools!
Immediately I began getting visions of mythological beasts and celestial gods locked in an epic battle for mortal souls. The lyric came fairly easily after that. But the human connection, the thing that gives it relevance, is the purpose of that epic struggle. Namely the fight to win hearts and minds. It's a wake up call to focus our vision on the tasks we have at hand in order to fulfill our ultimate potential.
Song Description
A dramatized portrayal of the struggle within each of us to fulfill our hopes and dreams, against the forces that would stop us.
| Song Length |
6:50 |
Genre |
Rock - Progressive Rock, Unique - Unclassified |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant, Frenetic |
Subject |
Existence, Hope |
| Similar Artists |
Queen, Muse, Rush, Styx, Deep Purple |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Movement 1
Renowned angels fall, through the maelstrom,
Through the wall
To bind truth, To bind love, To find, To smite
Prince of liars
Confutatis - Maledictes - Fabula!
We doubt and we fall, searching for truth,
Through it all
To find truth, To find love , To analyze
Our desires
Confusion - Conflagration - Elation!
Movement 2
Paradoxically - the future's filled with promise
We work earnestly - we race to find bliss
Destiny will be revealed
Through the maze we run - the future's filled with promise
With open hearts and lungs - we race to find bliss
Something deep inside is revealed!
Futurescape - Futurescape - Fate awaits
No matter where life leads - the future's filled with promise
Through mountains high and fields - we race to find bliss
Before the mortal cask is sealed
Before our labor's done - the future's filled with promise
Before our course is run - we race to find bliss
Before this lease on life is repealed
Futurescape - Futurescape - Fate awaits
BRIDGE
Light up the world - light on - light on
Blot out the enemy in your heart - your heart
Paradoxically
We work earnestly
Destiny will be revealed
Futurescape - Futurescape - Fate awaits
Futurescape - Futurescape - Fate awaits
Futurescape - Futurescape - Fate awaits
Aah Aah Aah etc