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elegy (for david)
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A song I wrote after my first real love died. More than a friend, more than a brother, I miss you.
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Percussionist, Singer, Composer, Songwriter, Pianist, Bassist and budding guitarist
Paul David is a Twin Cities musician whose music reaches past the heart and touches the soul. "It's highly spiritual music," Paul David said recently, "but not specifically Christian. I want to reach people of every faith journey with this music. I am writing about universal truths and situations we all deal with in this life."On his first solo CD, "Evolutions," the listener is taken on a journey from darkness to the light. "Trapped" in a place you don't belong, you are lead through some of the pitfalls of life on a well-woven carpet of sound, until your heart and soul "Burn On" with the fire of life. "It's like RENT, without the play," one listener noted.Paul David is a storyteller. Each song transports you to a place and time in your life (or in the lives of those you know). "I could actually see myself in the song," said another listener recently. Love, lust, discrimination, greed, guilt and joy are played out in the fabric of the songs. "It's like a cleansing of your soul. That's the idea behind the image on the back cover." said Paul David. Openly gay, Paul David's music transcends the boundaries of sexuality. "I write my songs for everyone. The issues of co-dependence, guilt, betrayal, love, death, sex and money are issues we all deal with," says Paul David. "It shouldn't matter whether you are homosexual, heterosexual or anything in between; and in my music I don't pretend there is a difference. We are all flesh and blood, with dreams, ideas, hopes and fears. I write my music in a way I feel people can work through their issues, and bring resolution to their lives: If they choose to. These songs helped me deal with many issues."
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Genre
Pop Dance-Pop
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#8,277 in subgenre Peak #123
Charts
Peak #336
Author
Paul David Stanko
Rights
©1998 excalibur arts theater & music enterprises
Uploaded
November 30, 2003
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MP3 4.8 MB 128 kbps 5:12
Story behind the song
Written the night after my friend and first love died in a car accident in 1991. I wrote this as a gift to his family.
Lyrics
Old friend I love you. Have I ever told you that? Old friend I'm gonna miss you. I wish you'd just come back. A light in my world. Someone to dispel my pain. When my world crumbled, you'd try to keep me sane. You never understood me, but still you let me be. Where are you? The time I abandoned you, I know I caused you pain. Still you came back to me and everything was still the same. Those afternoons together when no one else was there, we'd laugh we'd sing we'd dance around; sometimes we'd cry in despair. We shared some precious moments that no one can take away. Can you hear me? The dream we made together, what happens to them now? You left me hear to carry on, should I realize them somehow? To say we're only brothers really isn't fair. The grand schemes we planned together, now do you not care? I need you more than ever. Why did you have to die? I love you! Old friend, you're gone now. I guess we'll all survive. Old friend, I want to tell you, you really touched my life. I'll always see you smiling. I'll think about your laugh. I'll listen to your favorite music, but it will not bring you back. I have to let you go now. But I won't forget. I miss you. ©1997 excalibur arts, theater and music enterprises
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