Name: Roll the dice
Duration: 4 min 23 s
Channel: Al Stravinsky
Description: Free MP3 download. This is about wanting to be somewhere, anywhere you're not. I wrote a line about a bed, toast and crumbs and had an idea for a shuffle rhythm and jazzy ooh and aah harmonies.The sax solo on day five (Friday 27th January 2006) was the finishing touch

Roll the dice

Al Stravinsky

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This is about wanting to be somewhere, anywhere you're not. I wrote a line about a bed, toast and crumbs and had an idea for a shuffle rhythm and jazzy ooh and aah harmonies.The sax solo on day five (Friday 27th January 2006) was the finishing touch

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Al Stravinsky

Touching, funny, serious, award-winning songs about life and love; all penned, played, arranged, sung, recorded and mixed by Al.

So he never existed... not really, as a real person. He made himself up one day in 1969 and lived a dual existence: half of him surviving on dead-end jobs, the other half believing that one day he would write at least one song that the world would remember. Now half of him is dead, and, as with all conjoined twins (without major surgery) that sentences both of them. It would be sad if it wasn't so pathetic. Fairy-tales always end this way... well not always, rarely... and this was rarely a fairy-tale; so there the similarities end: the ending was neither sad nor happy - it just... was. The enigmatic and tragic Jackson C Frank was a hero of his... now he emulates that frail and failed soul. Maybe in 40 years people will still say 'Al who?', much as they do today. That would be both a great epitaph, and a fitting legacy. Below is the page as he inexplicably and hurriedly left it: hot meal still on the table; knife and fork still in place and at the ready; the drink untouched in the bone china cup... ************************************************************* I now have an album: 'The sentence that I serve' available from CD baby. Click on this mini album cover to take you there: INVALID -- CDBABY INVALID INVALID INVALID INVALID for AL STRAVINSKY: The sentence that I serve -- It's on iTunes too, where the whole album or individual tracks can be downloaded in mp3 format: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=216015067 Thanks. I've been a professional musician for 24 years, and over 3000 gigs (I've stopped counting); always working, travelling, trying to make ends meet...nearly...if you could just hold these a minute please...er...thanks: my hands are now free so I can get on with actually (ironically) playing some music at last. I sing and play bass guitar and I play some acoustic/electric guitars also.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Dance-Pop

Charts

Peak #69

Peak in subgenre #22

Author

Al Stravinsky

Uploaded

December 07, 2006

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MP3

MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 4:23

Story behind the song

From the album 'The sentence that I serve'. Click here for link: 


I wrote a line about a bed, toast and crumbs and had an idea for a shuffle rhythm and jazzy ooh and aah harmonies. It took off from there: the words were written in an hour, and the whole thing took five days of fairly intensive work to complete. I added the rocky vocal, as an alternative last chorus, for fun, not really thinking I would use it. I'd always wanted to fade out the backing, leaving vocals and guitar to end the song alone, but never had the right song or the technology to do it convincingly 'til now. The song comprises of: a chopped up drum loop, bass guitar, two acoustic guitar tracks (strums and arpeggios), arpeggio electric guitar, 2 hammond organs, 14 harmony tracks, and some ethereal sounds; The sax solo on day five (Friday 27th January 2006) was the finishing touch.

Lyrics

Verse 1	
I watch you, across a crowded messed up bedroom full of ghosts,
Lying on a bed of crumbs from eating toast.
Sunlight beaming, streaming, 
Dust-motes spinning, I'm dreaming
Of a nascent sun in a cosmos just begun,
To stop me drowning, to free me;
And you don't seem to see me.

Verse 2	
I see you across a crowded, crazy dance-floor full of fun,
Standing in your lover's shoes he left so he could run.
Mirrors flashing, colours splashing, 
People pushing and shoving, I'm dreaming
Of wooden boats and weeping willow trees,
A dress that ripples in the breeze.
I'm drowning, won't you free me?
But you don't even see me...

Chorus	
Oh roll, roll, roll the dice again -
Snakes are waiting there on every square
But roll the dice again...

Sax solo


Verse 3	
I hear you, across a swirling, sultry, dark room full of rum,
Lying on a bed of nails from too much sun.
Music wafting through the window, sleep is winning, I'm dreaming
Of sandstone castles and vines, 
Of moonlight through the pines,
To stop me drowning, to free me;
And you don't seem to need me...

Chorus	
Oh roll, roll, roll the dice again -
(Oh, yeah, come on and roll the dice again)
Maybe snakes are there on every square
But roll the dice again... 
(Oh, let me roll it)
		
Maybe snakes are waiting there on every square
But roll the dice...

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