Name: Some Yesterday
Channel: Arnie Stanton
Description: This is about the "romantisist" emotions one feels due to love lost. A flicker of dim hope keeps the search on to find love once again from the same particular person.

Some Yesterday

SKySWiM

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This is about the "romantisist" emotions one feels due to love lost. A flicker of dim hope keeps the search on to find love once again from the same particular person.

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SKySWiM

SKySWiM is the core project name for all musical work by Arnie Stanton. Arnie Stanton has been very involved in creating an eclectic musical blend of classical, electronic, rock, jazz, and other styles. Because of his wide musical background from training and listening, he tends to not stay long with one particular sound, mood, or feel. Arnie creates music meant to evoke deep emotions and strong visual imagery. His lyrics have spiritual overtones, sometimes comforting, but more often, challenging and ominous. He plays trombone, keyboards, sings, and usually talks in the first person, rather than third person tense, as he is doing here. :-) His base of operations is in Torrance, California. The official SKySWiM web page is .

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Other Alternative

Charts

#3,438 in subgenre Peak #46

Charts

Peak #261

Author

Arnie Stanton

Rights

1987

Uploaded

May 04, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.8 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Some Yesterday  started out as a humorous set of digital sample manipulations.  It did not take long for me to hear and try and bring out a kind of hauntingly beautiful meloncholy sound found in the sketch.  The song centers on the "dysfunctional" obsession upon "love lost," especially when one had made that "love" their highest purpose and desire in their life. 

In case the lady whose voice was used in the original sketch samples reads this, you are not the "love lost" in my life, but she was someone earlier in my life. 

Listen for the sound I try to evoke of the lighthouse foghorn next to the old "Marineland" site in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.

Lyrics

If my arms could reach beyond horizon, 
She would be further away, still. 
To share the blue haze of an afternoon sky, 
To run the greener grass. 
To have all of my wants, 
yet wanting much more, 
Was the mermaid I searched for 
warned of my presence? 
Must her shadow flee with the morning's sunrise? 

A Million of your sentences 
Cannot cure my care for you. 
Your smile hides your fury, 
and your silence fuels this pain inside. 
Your eyes told tales that I yearned to live 
Some Yesterday. 
Did I miss all of my chances. 
Will someone warm these dark depths 
in my life? 

Now that she told me she had "new life," 
Would her message still be the same? 
A time spent here overlooking the future, 
Wishing dreams come true. 
To escape these four grey walls, 
And touch the undone fire. 
Is it her will to be anchored to a slave, 
To ribbon was not meant to be there? 

A Million of your sentences... 
Will someone tell me where she is this day?

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