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Light Years
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A song about dealing with the lonliness and isolation caused by constantly moving from place to place in a futile search for happiness.
new age witch celtic heavy metal progressive rock heavy rock pagan avant rock wiccan faerie
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Heretic is a pro-Pagan/Wiccan rock band whose music hearkens back to the glory days of '68-'79 when rock musicians were free to experiment with different musica
I've got some new equipment, yall!! ...And I'm expecting more later this year (I plan to buy the Roland VG-99 when it becomes available, then a real Gibson Les Paul, hopefully, a Custom). Still, though, my band is right now basically just me, a male singer who drops by occaisionally (Jason Perch),a Fender Player's Deluxe Strat, a Roland GR20 and a Digitech GNX 3000. I use a TASCAM FW-1082 as an Audio/Midi interface and control surface for the heart of my studio, the DAW SONAR 6 Producer Edition, on my new computer, assembled by Dell, a quadcore QX6700 with dual nVidia Series 8800 GTX's and 4 gigs of RAM. I use this badass system for all my comosing and lyric writing, and a few vocals. I mix a little classic rock, traditional music from the british isles (I'm a Renassaince Festival frequenter), and heavy metal. Everything I write, even if it has bells and tin whistles in it, has a definite edge. The sound I'm going for is something all at once dark and heavy, but also with a light feminine touch.
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Charts
Peak #184
Peak in subgenre #14
Author
Courtney Patricia Parsons
Rights
Courtney Parsons 1998
Uploaded
August 17, 2005
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MP3 8.6 MB 128 kbps 0:00
Story behind the song
I live in so many cities, rambled across America and Mexico, did lots of drugs all in the name of a search for spiritual enlightenment. I became a lonely, isolated person and a felt a deep grudge and hatred growing against other people because I drove away everyone with my drug use and my constant need to be rambling from place to place. I became an angry, steel-hearted person with lot of hatred in me against people, escalated after becoming a victim of a vicious rape-torture-kidnapping and attempted murder. which was ignored by the police. They even implied that I deserved it. I developed a hatred for the whole of society, whom I felt had wronged me, and imagined myself as an intelligent,with biological components ("biomemetic circuitry"), war machine capable of obliterating planets, but the only death I caused was that of my own spirit, when I either ran or drugged myself into a stupor out of pain, I pushed everyone away who would have helped me-"Light Years" away from everyone who ever cared about me. The starship allegory takes my Warshp to an aeons-dead system at the center of which lies a dying neutron star. My ship is quickly running out of fuel, my star drives are damaged and emitting heavy radiation, destroying my biological componennts, and death is close at hand.
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LIGHT YEARS by Courtney Patricia Parsons 2001 Fueled by quantum synergy, biomimetic circuitry An angel wrought for vengeful ire, forged anew by fusion's fire Spectral orb all pale and wry, with mocking leer, a vulture's eye Cursed by fortune, sailor's chance, trapped by ruthless circumstance Victim of the siren's song Burn across your stars and then I'm gone Bridge I Like Odysseus long ago, lashed myself to this wooden pole To chase the stars that beckoned me across the face of eternity Now to end in darkness where A dying star's accursed glare Is my only company Canvas of eternal night Pierced by silver shafts of light This airless void in silent grace Deliver me from this place Chorus I Adrift somewhere in a thousand cubic parsecs of space Starfaring traveller, the last of a godlike race Cursed to roam these trackless voids no soul has ever known Until I found myself a million light years from home Bridge II Warning klaxons scream and wail, stellar winds now fill my sail No reply on any band All systems now at my command Radiation burns me blind Life Support is now offline And my flesh is failing fast Heart of quantum synergy, biomimetic circuitry An angel wrought for vengeful ire Born again in fusion's fire Chorus II Strayed from the travelled ways, then vanished without a trace Forever lost in emptiness, the depths of trackless space A warning now to those with hearts that must forever roam Pray you'll never count the distance in light years from home
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