Inkanta
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Posted: Feb. 08 2005, 20:21 |
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Just hope I haven’t already posted this at some point (maybe disclosed the lyrics on IRC). Anyhow….I’ve committed utter Moonlight Heresy and am only 35.8% comfortable giving you the background 411, but without it, the lyrics will just seem weird. OK, weirder. <-: Thing is, Moonlight Shadow is a sad and depressing song, and so is what led to the added lyrics. It has to do with how a song gets tangled up in real life.
One day back in early 2001 I was listening to Moonlight Shadow, realizing it had been nearly 15 years since a close friend had died. Back in 1986 I was playing MS a lot on guitar, and maybe that why I dreamt what I did that particular night, which startled me awake. In the dream, I saw the upper half of my friend floating in the sky, telling me that we couldn’t ever have a relationship because he no longer had a body. Then I was on a fence with those cartoon characters from Mary Poppins who were menacingly singing Supercalifragil-blablabla.. I started running, knowing they were going to stab me to death. I woke up in an absolute panic--and then learned a day later that he had been stabbed to death. He was returning to the US the next day (worked out of country), and we were going to talk and figure things out. My dream coincided with his death. So anyway……in 2001 I found myself listening to MS a lot again, and one night, the following rap lyrics just flew out of my brain…fitting in with the instrumental section:
4 AM and I woke up from a dream;
Looked outside through a silver moonbeam;
There you were floating in the sky;
Up between the Comet and Pegasus way high;
You looked down and this is what you said [from far away on the other side]
Now we’ll never know it cos now I am dead. [then fast guitar riff]
The moon turned to blood and the River overflowed—
all those stars were more than it could hold;
I screamed through the air as you were carried away
Will we meet again…in heaven some day? [caught in the middle of 105…]
And then at the end:
If there is a heaven, if there is still you,
One of these days I will push through.
If there is a heaven if there is still you,
Just remember how much I love you.
I know this sounds terribly goofy. I actually performed this version at St. Brigid’s Jam a few years back--which may be the real reason why they prefer that I dance, hahahahahaha!
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"No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From: Moongarden's "Solaris."
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Plus, I translated the whole of the instruments list into Italian, to use in a performance that never happened. 
It still sounds very Disney-ish to me.