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[avevale_intelligencer]

This is a very rough recording of Suncat, Orville and Korynn's song What It Seems, from chapter four of Return To Argenthome. The vocals are mine, of course, and their quality is not good, but it should give you an idea of the song as it would appear in its finished form.

And if you happen to fancy it, here's a recording without vocals: http://nyrond.altrion.org/tunes/Gestalt/Whatnv.mp3

And here are the lyrics:

Sometimes it's not so bad
Sometimes you can get through a day without
Remembering all you had
And how it all slipped from view and all about the
Time when you thought you knew
Time and a word that made you feel so agile
What was a girl to do?
When all of the games you played just left me fragile

I see you standing there amid your displays
Clinging to fragments of your past future days
No-one can save you now, you're lost in the haze
Of dreams....
When everything is what it seems.

Now it's a different age
Now we all see the sails upon the ocean
Black as a father's rage
A fury that keens and wails her dark devotion
Even the blackness pales
Even the score with magic as a player
Time to rewrite the tales
Time to reclaim the badge of the relayer

I see you falling, going down on your knees,
Ravaged and broken by your own foul disease,
Choking and striving as you fight to release
Your screams....
When everything is what it seems.

Ah...
Never coming home never coming home never coming never never never
Ah...
Thought you were so smart thought you had it made thought you had it did you did you did you
Ah...
Should have seen it coming shoulda seen it coming shoulda seen it shoulda shoulda shoulda
Ah...
Would have put it right woulda put it right you woulda done it woulda woulda woulda

Time to rewind the thread
Time to return in triumph as a hero
Man with the horns is dead
Theseus won, the Minotaur a zero
Now when your heart is high
Now is the time you need to be much calmer
Drama is drawing nigh
One more demise to feed the die-o-rama

I see you lying there with pain in your eyes
Helpless and fearful as a part of you dies
You beat the monster but you can't analyse
The themes....
When everything is what it seems.

Comments

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it isn't working for me. All I get is a screen full of black with a solitary "play" arrow and no sound... Nothing happens when I try to click the "play" arrow. :( What am I doing wrong?

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

i have no idea. It plays for me. Ah, I see Facebook s back. You could ry it from Gestalt's FB page, http://www.facebook.com/gestalttheband ...

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Managed to make it work in Firefox - yay! I love this - the words, the music, the graphics.

Makes me want to sing it, actually.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Then do, by all means. :)

http://nyrond.altrion.org/tunes/Gestalt/Whatnv.mp3

[eintx.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful - could you record it?
We could do a Gestalt-tribute-album!

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

I would love to, but a)it crashed my computer quite badly, b)no recording equipment. *sigh

It's a lovely idea.

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

Zander, maybe if you sent me an MP3 I could put it on my phone and learn the song? Can I have a copy of the words, too? Headdesk.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

The song crashed your computer? I'm so sorry! How?

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

I don't have a lot of processing power - or something - and some stuff on the internet cripples the computer so I have to restart to get anything to work at all.