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Where On Earth

from Dreams of Flying by Daniel Levy

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music & lyrics by Daniel Levy

To create the main accompaniment part, I de-tuned my fretless bass to set up an F# drone, then added other two-note combinations, power chords and 6ths, to create three-note chords. Add drums to that and you have a pretty complete accompaniment. This frees up the cello and guitar synth to do all kinds of things, like the countermelody that rises up between the first two verses.

lyrics video: youtu.be/k-uUR8feCEA

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WHERE ON EARTH (1989)

On a road in southern Ecuador
is a man with seven shoes
and he wants to sell them one by one

in a field in Ethiopia
is a farmer with a plow
and the carcass of an animal

and he wants to run a thousand miles away
and he starts to go, but stops along the way
and he wonders, what have I been doing wrong?
and he wonders, where on earth do I belong?

on an island in the Philippines
that they used to test the bomb
in a prison in the Netherlands
in a cave in Vietnam
in a purple house in Florida

and he wants to run a thousand miles away
and he starts to go, but stops along the way
and he wonders, what have I been doing wrong?
and he wonders, where on earth do I belong?

lyrics video: https://youtu.be/k-uUR8feCEA

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from Dreams of Flying, released June 20, 2022

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