Name: Strange Ritual ALPHA MIX
Duration: P00H05M06S
Description: This is close but not quite ready. I don't usually share "not quite there," but I thought you'd get a kick out of this tune. Most of the sounds are from the Kurzweil PC3X keyboard.

Strange Ritual ALPHA MIX

from Up, Down, and In Between by Michael Rancourt

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This is close but not quite ready. I don't usually share "not quite there," but I thought you'd get a kick out of this tune. Most of the sounds are from the Kurzweil PC3X keyboard.

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And I gotta chase it down
Get it when I can
Sometime float by
Buried in the sand
Come up washed up
coated with mud
I don't want to touch it
I just want to run
I play the signal
Help me get this far
You found the water
In a washed-up broken heart
Could you get a table
To put our troubles on
I'll go get a shovel
For things that should be gone

And I need you to write down all you see
Everything we feel
For when I don't believe

The sun comes up
There are grooves in the sand
I found the note
In your steady hand
Written in a language
I had never seen
Talked in words
Echos in between
I heard voices
Turn me all around
You are in a circle
Body making sound
Danced on a symbol
Beckon me along
I'm about to crumble
Singing your song

I used to run from you
You never made much sense
The way you used your mind
And never built a fence
And now I see the sign
I see you coming through
All this time I thought it was me
And it was you

All that life you live today
All those things just came your way
A quarter shy, half your soul
And all those things inside your head
Nothing worse than empty beds
I know you are a strange ritual

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from Up, Down, and In Between, released October 9, 2010

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