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I posted this song when I first joined MJ and although it didn't get alot of traffic... it has always been a personally satisfying song... One friend who used to perform this live with me always criticized the recording because it didn’t have any of my “guitar noodeling” that he was accustomed to in the live performance... I bought new AT 4041’s a month ago, so I tested them on this song... and remixed the song in Logic pro... I don’t often repost things but I have had no chance to complete anything new in a while.... It’s the most personal to date ... in that I really wanted to identify an experience that haunted me... and I was never able to quite put my finger on it... I had tried a few times to write about it, and came up way short, mostly because the fleeting experience was so hard to articulate... C S Lewis describes it in “Surprised by Joy”... and oddly enough Paul William's seamed to have scratched the surface with the song “rainbow connection”... well the song was kind of a milestone for me... in that I felt I had successfully painted an abstract of what I was trying to get at... and sometimes music is the one vehicle that can take us all the way to those deepest places, that require a different language of the heart....
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WHEN CHILDHOOD BROUGHT NIGHTMARES, & I DARE NOT SLEEP
I WOULD LIE STILL ...AWAKE.
AND ANGELS OF COMFORT, COME STAND BY MY BED
AND GUARD EVERY BREATH I TAKE
WELL I SAW THIS THRU YOUNG EYES, AND MEMORY FADES
THIS ALL COULD BE SOME MISTAKE.
CAN I GET BACK WHAT I NEVER HAD
HAVE I BEEN MISPLACED DO I BELONG THERE INSTEAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I FEEL SAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I DON’T FEEL SO BAD
OFF IN THE DISTANCE, I THOUGHT I HEARD VOICES
SOMEBODY CALLED MY NAME.
TO TELL ME OF NEW LANDS, A TIME WITHOUT END
A LIGHT FROM ETERNAL FLAME
WAS THIS SOME KIND OFF TRICK, I TURNED AROUND QUICKLY
EVERYTHING LOOKED THE SAME.
CAN I GET BACK WHAT I NEVER HAD
HAVE I BEEN MISPLACED DO I BELONG THERE INSTEAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I FEEL SAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I DON’T FEEL SO BAD
FOR A MOMENT I AM SWEPT AWAY
I’M NOT SURE WHERE, BUT I NEVER STAY
ONLY GLIMPSES OF SOMEWHERE....SOMEDAY
ONLY GLIMPSES OF SOMEWHERE.....SOMEDAY
ONLY GLIMPSES OF SOMEWHERE.....SOMEDAY
WHERE HAVE I BEEN...WHERE WILL I GO
WILL I SEE HIM .... WHEN WILL I KNOW
YOU COULDN’T SEE ME BUT I WAS THERE
YOU COULDN'T HEAR ME BUT I SPOKE CLEARLY
YOU COULDN’T SEE ME BUT I WAS THERE
YOU COULDN'T HEAR ME BUT I SPOKE CLEARLY
OFF IN THE DISTANCE, I THOUGHT I HEARD VOICES
SOMEBODY CALLED MY NAME.
I WOULD LIE STILL ...AWAKE.
AND ANGELS OF COMFORT, COME STAND BY MY BED
AND GUARD EVERY BREATH I TAKE
WELL I SAW THIS THRU YOUNG EYES, AND MEMORY FADES
THIS ALL COULD BE SOME MISTAKE.
CAN I GET BACK WHAT I NEVER HAD
HAVE I BEEN MISPLACED DO I BELONG THERE INSTEAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I FEEL SAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I DON’T FEEL SO BAD
OFF IN THE DISTANCE, I THOUGHT I HEARD VOICES
SOMEBODY CALLED MY NAME.
TO TELL ME OF NEW LANDS, A TIME WITHOUT END
A LIGHT FROM ETERNAL FLAME
WAS THIS SOME KIND OFF TRICK, I TURNED AROUND QUICKLY
EVERYTHING LOOKED THE SAME.
CAN I GET BACK WHAT I NEVER HAD
HAVE I BEEN MISPLACED DO I BELONG THERE INSTEAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I FEEL SAD
SOMETIMES I CATCH GLIMPSES... THEN I DON’T FEEL SO BAD
FOR A MOMENT I AM SWEPT AWAY
I’M NOT SURE WHERE, BUT I NEVER STAY
ONLY GLIMPSES OF SOMEWHERE....SOMEDAY
ONLY GLIMPSES OF SOMEWHERE.....SOMEDAY
ONLY GLIMPSES OF SOMEWHERE.....SOMEDAY
WHERE HAVE I BEEN...WHERE WILL I GO
WILL I SEE HIM .... WHEN WILL I KNOW
YOU COULDN’T SEE ME BUT I WAS THERE
YOU COULDN'T HEAR ME BUT I SPOKE CLEARLY
YOU COULDN’T SEE ME BUT I WAS THERE
YOU COULDN'T HEAR ME BUT I SPOKE CLEARLY
OFF IN THE DISTANCE, I THOUGHT I HEARD VOICES
SOMEBODY CALLED MY NAME.
back then. Still liking it now. Downloaded it then... and now again. Your reference to Lewis in Surprised by Joy and Paul William's Rainbow Connection (a favorite) are apt.
cheers.