MUSIC BLOG

WHITE BIRD OF FREEDOM

2008-10-01T06:54:00.000-07:00

WHITE BIRD OF FREEDOM

1. Oh, White Bird of Light.
Release your Wings of Freedom to the sky.
Above the iron bars of time,
WHITE BIRD OF FREEDOM,
Spread your Mighty Wings and Fly.

2. We're not your ordinary kind.
We are your sons and daughters whose time
now is not to cry.
See by looking in our eyes,
And at our long hair flowin' over shoulders bronzed
with tattoos over-flowin'
We have a mission to become one who serves
Both Darkness and the Light.
WHITE BIRD OF FREEDOM
Spread your Mighty Wings and Fly.

3. Oh, White Bird of Light,
Release your wings of freedom to the sky.
Above the prisons of the night,
WHITE BIRD OF FREEDOM
Spread your Mighty Wings and Fly.

(Ending. Slowly) WHITE BIRD OF FREEDOM
Spread your Mighty Wings and Fly.

RED ROOM

2008-10-01T06:51:00.000-07:00

RED ROOM

1. In a Red Room, with no curtains,
Bars on the windows ad locks upon the door.
Whips and chains line the walls inside the chamber.
Milk white thighs, naked flesh, 'neath black leather
Put restraints upon the love that we had known.
In a Red Room, a room we know so well,
From which there's no escape, there are no exits.
And Pain become our true initiation.
And Fear become the Master that we Serve.
And I don't remember who I am
Or who or what I have become.
Waiting in quiet desperation
For Dawn to come.

2. At the temple of my body, come to worship.
And I will be your Priestess, kneel before me.
And I will teach you of the Mysteries.
When you become my Master, invoke your demons
With incantations to the elemental spirits.
Scourge my naked flesh with your desire.
In a Red Room, a room we know so well,
Where we can bare our souls, there are no secrets.
And Pain become our true Initiation,
And Fear become the Master that we Serve.
And I don't remember who I am,
Or who or what I have become.
Waiting in quiet desperation
For Dawn to come.

(COMMENT: The dedication is to poet Violence Onelove.)

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

2008-10-01T06:48:00.000-07:00

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

1. They call me a Soldier of Fortune.

They call me a prisoner of shame.

I'm captive, you see, and only you have the key

That can unlock my chains.

2। I've journeyed on dark stormy highways

I've wandered on Destiny's sands.

I travel around but I always come back down

Back where my heartaches began.

(Br।) If I leave you search for fortune and fame,

If I should find my fortune, would you hold me in your arms

And take me back again?

3। They call me a Soldier of Fortune।

They call me a prisoner of shame.

Though I traveled long, still I'm just a pawn

Caught in a web of life's game.

(TAG:) They call me a Soldier of Fortune,

Yes they do.

VENUS AND THE MOON

2008-10-01T06:45:00.000-07:00

VENUS AND THE MOON

1. When Sunlight deserts the sky
And night is falling soon,
I'll long to spread my wings to fly
To Venus and the Moon.
Venus and the Moon.
Venus and the Moon.

2. And when your love is growing cold
And when you don't want to be true,
I'll long to spread my wings and fly
Far away from you.
Venus and the Moon.
Venus and the Moon.

3. And when your garden flowers
Are wet with midnight dew,
I'll long to find someplace to hide
From Venus and the Moon.
Venus and the Moon.
Venus and the Moon.

(TAG:)(Slowly): Venus and the Moon.

KISS OF STRANGE

2008-10-01T05:10:00.000-07:00

KISS OF STRANGE

1. Let me take you on home to Darkness.
Let take you on home, tonight.
Let me take you on home to Darkness.
Won't you ride by me side?

When you receive the Kiss of Strange
Where the pale flowers bloom,
You release the Winds of Change
Behind the hollow moon.

2. Let me take you on home to Darkness.
Let me take you back the way that you came.
Let me take you on home to Darkness.
Let me take you back where you can be safe.

On the barren desert
The Prince of the Dark Realm rides.
The window of the sky is broken
By the beating wings of night.

(Refrain:) Kiss of Strange in the sky.
Kiss of Strange in my eye.
Kiss of Strange, strange desire.
Kiss of Strange green fire.

3. Let me take you on home to Darkness.
Let me take you back where you belong.
Let me take you on home to Darkness.
The night wind cries, it won't be wrong.

Through the Dark Realm there is motion
Among the Creatures of the Deep.
A new soul is arriving,
A new lifetime to reap.

(Refrain:) Kiss of Strange in the sky.
Kiss of Strange in my eye.
Kiss of Strange, strange desire.
Kiss of Strange green fire.

Kiss of Strange.

(COMMENT: It was 1970. I was supposed to go to a jam session. I even let them borrow my drums. I never saw the drums again. I didn’t care. I knew I wasn’t going anywhere. I was going to stay home and finish writing this song. The images of the lyric. The mood of the chords. I knew that I was onto something that had perhaps never been felt before in music. In the first place anything having to do with “darkness” was strictly taboo in the music of the time. But what I was trying to evoke wasn’t evil, it was . . . something else. I didn’t know it at the time but it perfectly presaged the Heavy Metal music that would emerge several years later.)

EVE'S TEMPTATION

2008-10-01T05:06:00.000-07:00

From MUSIC BLOG

EVE'S TEMPTATION

1. I heard you sing your songs of love
As you sipped your glass of wine.
And the songs you are singing now
Are according to your design.
But it looks to my tired eyes
You do not sing for me.
You sing now only for yourself.
Your eyes are like a shield.

(Interlude:)
And now is Eve's Temptation
In the Garden of Desire.
And now you have tasted
The Fruit of Eternal Fire.

(Refrain:)
Standing in the smoke and flames
Of the Fires of Hell,
I can hear you whisper oh so plain
Is there a doctor who can make me well?
Doctor make me well.

2. Please send me to the doctor
To take away this hurt.
I took all my medicine
But it didn't seem to work.
I reach and reach to try to find
Some virgin place to go.
But I can't pass through without you, babe,
And you have sold your soul!

(Instrumental)

3. And when you were standing
Outside of human form,
Did you not see the game of chance
Being played on the Devil's board?
Unplug/short circuit/darling lose control.
Look deep within my eyes.
Seek to find your stolen soul
Beyond the flesh of lies. Beyond!

(Repeat Interlude.)

(Repeat Refrain.)

(COMMENT: In the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s rock was influencing jazz and jazz was influencing rock. Musicians wanted more freedom for instrumental improvisation. One of the solutions was songs with more flexible chord structure. Improvising over complex chord structure had already become too restricting for jazz musicians, so Miles Davis and John Coltrane came up with the idea of modes. Modes offer a scale or a key which doesn’t change but offers a jazz musician free rein for improvisation. Many rock songs of the era were constructed over a riff or chord pattern two to four measures long which repeated over and over again establishing a key and a rhythm. Usually these songs introduced contrasting material later in the structure, but when musicians wanted to improvise, they would just improvise on the pattern or riff for as long as they wanted without worrying about the song structure. Examples of songs which lend themselves to this kind of playing are "All Along The Watchtower" by Bob Dylan and "Season of the Witch" by Donovan. Also certain compositions by Neil Young, including "Down by the River", "Cinnamon Girl", and "Southern Man", have sections for improvisation which do not correspond to the song structure but feature jamming in a key instead.

EVE’S TEMPTATION is basically Verse-Chorus, or AB in structure with three verses and a repeated chorus. The verses are in F#m with a short connecting section setting up the key change to Em for the chorus. The chorus is more flexible, however, and can be expanded as necessary to accommodate instrumental improvisation. In the recorded example, after the second verse the lyric is left off and the soloist is free to improvise over the Em-F progression as long as desired. The last chorus is extended as long as desired to make an ending.

It was written in 1970.)

ONE

2008-09-30T22:34:00.000-07:00

AFTERGLOW

2008-09-14T13:08:00.000-07:00

(Lyrics:)

1. Where do you go in the Afterglow
When another you comes out to torment me?
You are with me now and I love you now.
Please don't go away and become as a stranger to me.

2. As the Sun's light, when its path alligns,
Is obscured behind the shadow of the Moon,
So do your eyes hide their starry light
When the darkness comes to take control of you.

(Bridge) Earth's shadow falls on the face of the Moon.
By a strange Afterglow I can see
Your once loving eyes now are so dissatisfied.
What's come between to take your love from me?

3. Where do you go in the Afterglow
When another you comes out inside of you?
Why must you go? Why must you hurt me so
When the Sun is in eclipse behind the Moon.

(Tag): In the Afterglow I search my Soul for You!

(COMMENT: I wrote this song in the early '70's for my music
partner and best friend, the late Daphne Clarke-Zaleska, a jazz
singer who was once married to saxophonist Art Pepper.
She died in 1992.

The form is AABA. The rhythm is straight ahead swinging
4/4 time that changes to Latin for the bridge, then back to
4/4 for the last eight. The Tag is only used for the ending.
The style was inspired by the music of Benny Golson and
is intended as a vehicle for jazz improvisation.)