A companion piece to "When You Get There", I wrote this partly to ease my way into songwriting. It uses the music from Jonathan Coulton's "I'm Your Moon", and in fact, I ended up staying very close to the original orchestration. I intended to get the instruments in place, modeled after Coulton's piece, then one by one replace them with voice until the entire piece was rendered in contemporary a cappella style, complete with vocal percussion. I may still do that someday, but halfway through the effort I decided the version with instruments sounded better, so I put that on hold.
As for the song itself, the inspiration for its subject matter comes from a book my wife is currently writing, entitled "Dream Girl". Without giving too much away (not my plot to share), it renders dreams, prophesies, and loss on a canvas of adventure and horror, with appropriate touches of humor. I imagine this song playing over the closing credits of the movie made from the book.
lyrics
[Verse 1]
Dizzy, tumbling, fearful, adrift in space,
Struggling to escape it, but most of my soul was trapped in place.
Then you magically changed my world.
Ever since I've been flying with the girl
[Chorus]
Of my dreams. In my dreams, you change everything
Black and white to a rainbow of light that makes me sing.
Promise me you'll still be by my side in the morning.
[Verse 2]
Prophesying on tiptoes omens of sin.
On a journey to Hypnos, but walking a line between the twins.
With your help I know I'll get there.
Tell the ferryman he can have his fare.
[Chorus]
Where the real world shines
To show me truth behind the signs
I dreamed.
[Verse 3]
Falling downward forever, dragged out to sea,
Monsters, demons, whatever, I won't be afraid if you're with me.
The revelation is now complete.
I drift unconscious ablaze for when we meet
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