This is a truly virtual international collaboration among Russ Okuma, Seattle (lyrics, keyboard and drums); Stewart Alexander, Cardiff (lyrics); and Stan Loh, Vancouver (music and vocals).
Stan loves music, is published (EMI/Capitol), and has experience performing on radio and TV when it was live in the good old days. These days he's just writing
Songwriter of pop, country, inspirational songs. I like to write. I travel a lot to Asia...so my music may have an Asian influence.
Story behind the song
Born in Muse Muse forum, this song is an enjoyable project stretching from Seattle to Cardiff, Wales and Vancouver.
Lyrics
The Trial Of The Dark
Copyright Lyrics By Russell Okuma/Stewart Alexander ; Music By Stan Loh, July 2003
Verse One
Daylight will carve the new-born ground,
Bloodhounds starve on thorny crowns,
I watch the sunrise run through my eyes,
Twilight fades from lavender skies.
Verse Two
Midnight sells tales to the press,
Undressed confessions of distress,
Though half the world is on his side,
His eyes can't hide Jekyll and Hyde.
Chorus
It's the trial of the dark,
In the cruel light of day,
Where six suns and moons,
Debate in the shade,
Above the silvery bay,
Above the silvery bay,
Verse Three
Thund’rous gavel, canyons of guilt,
Frivolous year-slaves begin to wilt,
Snake eyes are glazed with crimson pain,
Under the law, faint hope is slain.
Bridge
No parole from life on a sun,
With the night gone, he's back on the run....
In a black hole, his words weigh a ton,
Time is his friend, and the clock is his gun.
(Repeat Chorus)
