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Joyous orchestral piece with contrasting lyrics.
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Melodic, Melodious, Melodies!, Melodies! (Headphone Mix), Tuneful, John Gary Bovay
IF YOU ENJOY any of the 12 melodic tracks which comprise my album Melodies! (Headphone Mix), then please donate what you can to those bloody do-gooders known as Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders): http://www.msf.org/ ------------------- PLEASE HELP AN UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILD discover and develop her/his innate creativity by donating any old computer gear you may have to any local organization which refurbishes used computers for use by disadvantaged kids. If you live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, then such an organization is Little Geeks: http://www.littlegeeks.org/ ------------------- YOUR LOCAL grade/junior high school's music students could likely make creative use of any unwanted musical instruments, amps, and related accessories... ------------------- MISSING KIDS IN TORONTO AND BARRIE: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27664593061#/album.php?aid=41394&id=660216385&ref=share ---------------- "CODE AMBER now provides both Web Site Tickers and Desktop Tickers for the US and Canada. Please select from the following to get your ticker(s). You may download any or all of the tickers we have available.": http://www.codeamber.org/index-2.php AMBER ALERT Facebook application: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2374919178 Merci. Gary
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Beats • Beats General
Charts
#112,864 today Peak #1,202
#53,089 in subgenre Peak #73
Author
John Gary Bovay
Rights
1996
Uploaded
June 01, 2008
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MP3 5.3 MB • 128 kbps • 5:49
Story behind the song
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY of Shawn 'Junior' Keegan (1977-1996), and to all the other runaway & 'throwaway' fledglings who came - and continue to come - to grief after finding themselves alone, vulnerable, and exploited on the mean, and often indifferent streets of major cities the world over. A society's civility can be gauged by how well it safeguards its young...
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LIKE A DREAM by John Gary Bovay (copyright 1996) ------------------------------------ INTRO: (The french horn and the oboe roughly articulate the vocal melody.) (The guitar & violin parts form an instrumental representation of this composition’s two tragedians.) VERSE 1: Those days when we were young. Came flooding back like a dream... It was oh.., so long ago. Ah... We were barely teens... The world was a bright and beautiful place. That lay beyond the next bend... Together we both lived for now. And went on and on without end...... BREAK A: (Echoes theme of verse 1.) VERSE 2: It is often said, once friend is a friend, is a friend, is a friend, is a friend. But in your eyes.., I realised... You could be much more than... You took my hand and said “hey man, let’s go around the next bend...” Together we both lived for now. And went on and on without end...... BREAK B: (The two young friends discover each other.) BREAK C: (Segues to present tense.) VERSE 3: Today came rushing back. With a blast that shattered my dream. In your bed you laid near death. From a scourge so cruel and mean. You clutched my hand and pled “hey man, can ya help me ’round the next bend?” “Together we’ll both live for now. And go on and on without, end......” BREAK D: (1st friend comforts his/her dying partner, and prepares to assist in the partner's final request.) BREAK E: (Death throes of the dying partner.) BREAK F: (Dying partner has passed on....) VERSE 4: (Spoken/sung in a grief–stricken and tremulous semi–whisper.) So now you’re gone. And it won’t be long. Before I depart, this scene. I can’t bear to live. With a grief this strong. A scourge so cruel, and mean. By my own hand. I have a plan. To take me ’round the next bend. (Sung with a plaintive and rising desperation.) Then once again we’ll both live for now. And go on and on without end....... BREAK G: (Echoes theme of verse 4.) BREAK H: (Remaining friend teeters on the brink of her/his final act.) BREAK I: (The final act.) Fin
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