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The Steady March of Time
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A submission for the Dreamsville Technology project. It is about the Evolution of Clocks and such.
rock acoustic ambient blues comedy philosophical indietronic highly experimental
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Highly ExperiMental, Rock, Blues, Electronica, Ambient, Acoustic, Comedy, Philosophical...
Richard "Cool-as-Hell" Sinclair and Michael "Punslinger" Honsinger have been making spontaneously original music together since soon after they first met in 1985. After a jam or two, the Punslinger lent Richard his Fostex X-15 4-track cassette recorder; Richard impressed him so much by writing the song "Forwards in Time" that the Punman joined forces and the dynamic duo soon morphed into Quantum Mechanix by combining musical gear, ideas, and jokes; and taking cassette 4-tracks to their very limits... and beyond! The first few years were extremely experimental! Combining Rock, Pop, Electronica and Beyond together, they blazed their own trail through the underground of the Olympia Underground music scene (unseen by K records, Steve Fiske, Bakini Kill, Marcy Playground, the Melvins, Nirvana, Bratmobile and many others). They should have called themselves Secret Identity! Afraid to share their music with anyone, they languished in obscurity which fueled even more inspired songs of worth! They have released one album: Quantum Mechanix '88 (11 years after Talking Heads '77) There were only 50 cassettes produced. They later joined forces with drummer Patrick Padovan (who played at their first 2 jams) and transformed into Art Official... recently they have been known to call themselves Triple Dog Dare.
Song Info
Genre
Electronic Techno
Charts
Peak #353
Peak in subgenre #21
Author
Quantum Mechanix
Rights
2008
Uploaded
January 14, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.4 MB 128 kbps 3:42
Story behind the song
This song started as a possible tune for the Return of Birthday Bill but it didn't gel; it all came together when I added these lyrics.
Lyrics
The Steady March of Time Clocks once ran on shadows Others were powered by sand They soon grew lots of teeth When they started using their hands Clocks soon ran on wheels Revived again by Spring Birds would leap from some each hour While others' bells would ring How their faces glowed When radium was applied Science tries to keep the pace With the steady march of time Most clocks are now pumping sparks Just to keep their numbers in line Try to see them when the power's out And they just don't have the time Time will heal and time can tell and a stitch in time saves nine Science tries to keep the pace with the steady march of time Sometime time stands still Like "Once Upon a Time" Just when you don't want it to Time just flies on by Time is now like all times past And the Future's just a lie Still science tries to keep the pace With the steady march of time
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