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From "Welcome to Love" 2019 seanosongs
Recorded January-February 2019, The Manse, Fergus, ON
Remastered May 2020, The Cave, Vancouver, BC
Inspired by "The Great Divorce," C.S. Lewis, 1945 (bridge and final stanza verbatim); "1984," George Orwell, 1949; Bono; Psalm 2
Artwork: "The Ladder of Divine Ascent," Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, late 12th century (representing the theological teachings of John Climacus, a.k.a. John of the Ladder; featured as the cover art on "The Great Divorce" paperback in 1983)
lyrics
Another day in the Grey Town
In the twilight rains
Impending Götterdämmerung
At the end of days
Wandering these mean streets
Nightfall is suspending
Retreat from this unhappy scene
Ride on to the higher plane
Another day
Another day
Another day slips into eternity
Webbed into our telescreens
For the Two Minutes Hate
Celebrity is the currency
As all the nations rage
Another day
Another day
Another day slips into eternity
Eternity
Dawn ready to break
Eternity
Songs aplenty to sing
If I could remember their singing
And write down the notes
No one who read that score
Would ever grow sick or old
Meantime back in the Grey Town
With all its ego trips
Pride and self-importance
Malice and pettiness
I awoke in a cold room
Hunched on the floor
Beside a black and empty grate
The clock striking three
And the siren howling overhead
Another day
Another day
Another day slips into eternity
Another soul ...
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released March 1, 2019
Elijah O'Leary: lead guitar
Incidental Music homepage banner artwork:
"The Frieze of the Prophets," John Singer Sargent (American) 1902
Left-to-right: Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah, Hosea, Amos, Nahum, Ezekiel, Daniel, Elijah, Moses (with Ten Commandments), Joshua, Jeremiah, Jonah, Isaiah, Habakkuk, Micah, Haggai, Malachi, Zechariah.
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