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This epic song is a joint project between myself, Ted "Surfer" Barrett who provided the vision and the lyrics, and Nick "Prism" Crosby who played the amazing guitar parts.
You can also read The Story, inspired by Ted's Poem.
Mark Green:
Keyboards, Vocals, Programming
Nick Crosby:
Guitars
Recorded in Weston-super-Mare, UK and Syracuse NY, USA, December 2005
Recorded using Cubase SX
Lyrics (c) Ted Barrett 2005
Music (c) Mark Green 2005
Planet of the Scale Birds (c) Mark Green 2005 - Realized in Photoshop
Floating flowers descended from scaled birds
Know neither where they came nor where they’ll go
The birds knew the stars but never the sun
They bred to evolve before the next dawn
A beautiful race of light and air
...
...
before the next moonrise
Not bird or flower
But a sad creature of land
...
When his world died
the poet had only
a poor imagination
to hold back his memories.
Nothing could stop the old music
echoing in the shadows of breath
and footstep.
He sang and dreamed
walking a universe
that would never be.
...
Children of a
forgotten sun
worship
the lunar frost
A
transient god of crystal ground
into
a facade for the lost
By
slow moon’s light the flock gathers
choosing
new mating triples
Male,
female and shim together
crying
ecstatic and fearful
Covered
in false sunlight they pray
for
a buoyant egg that blooms
In
ten millennia comes a new day
when
Scale Birds die without the moon
...
...
old ways
old songs
before the million year sun
...