Somewhere on Mars

[Jeff]

I stayed up all night trying to write this and finish it. But I didn't get the vocal recorded. I will have to do that later today. Still, I give you the lyrics now. And I will up load the music only version to savefile in just a second:


Somewhere on Mars

Sweet, broken promises
Just like sugar on your lips
Broken promises
Taste like candy

Sweet, when you look away
When you make me think you’ll stay
I would wait all day
For your broken…

The levee breaks
There is no sound
And love’s mistakes (and love’s mistakes)
Will flood the ground

Words will rise
When angels fall
And it’s my hand (and it’s my hand)
Holding this wall

Sweet, like you make me sway
Like you make me like your way
I will swallow you
When you’re handy

Sweet, every piece of you
Lingerie that I see through
I could choke on you
Like broken…

Lower your voice
And raise your guard
You made your choice (you made your choice)
Somewhere on Mars

Break my will
And break my soul
And nothing fills (and nothing fills)
When nothing’s whole

[Jeff]

www.savefile.com/files/2111169
Also in the yahoo briefcase

Again, this is another one of those written and recorded in one night songs. But this one is a little better than the last one. No vocal.

PS The version in the yahoo briefcase is more compressed than the one on save file--in both volume and bit rate. It's louder but less accurate.

[Jeff]

[Jeff]

Ok. I finished the vocal. So, this song turned out to be more like a 21 hour song instead of a three hour one. Of course, I slept for 7 hours and ate and did a bit of house work.

Here is the savefile link: www.savefile.com/files/6780335
The new version is also the one in the yahoo briefcase

Problems:

1. The vocals were mixed a bit too low.
2. The compression tool I used made the sweeping strings at the beginning of the piece sound a little odd.

3. But the main problem is the fruity lyrics. I had an idea that I wanted to try. Usually I try to keep one or two central metaphors at the heart of each song. This time I got my key ideas and just brainstormed about the metaphors that would work. The connections between them are very thin, but stronger than merely free association. Still, it's probably not an idea that I'll try again any time soon.

Let me know what you think...

[Jeff]

Here are the final lyrics including the bits spoken by NASA scientists. You can get the podcast I used for the samples here: www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcast/mro-20060224

Somewhere on Mars

“3,2,1 ignition and lift off of the Atlas 5 rocket.”

Somewhere on Mars

“You’re not there, till you’re there.”

Somewhere on Mars

Sweet, broken promises
Just like sugar on your lips
Broken promises
Taste just like candy

Sweet, when you look away
When you make me think you’ll stay
I would wait all day
For your broken…

The levee breaks
There is no sound
And love’s mistakes (and love’s mistakes)
Will flood the ground

“But then the spacecraft goes behind the planet and we can’t see it anymore.”

Words will rise
When angels fall
And it’s my hand (and it’s my hand)
Holding this wall

Sweet, like you make me sway
Like you make me like your way
I will swallow you
When you’re handy

Sweet, every piece of you
Lingerie that I see through
I could choke on you
Like broken…

Lower your voice
And raise your guard
You made your choice (you made your choice)
Somewhere on Mars

“The reassuring signal from the spacecraft will disappear for a few minutes.”

Break my will
And break my soul
And nothing fills (and nothing fills)
When nothing’s whole

“An extraordinarily tense time!”

“I can stand on that surface.”

Somewhere on Mars
Underneath the ice and rock we’re bound to find you
Somewhere on Mars

“You gotta be wearing a space suit, but you'd look up and you'd see a sky. There's sunlight that goes to the surface. It has a day that's almost the same as the Earth's, so that day and night progressions are the same. It has seasons much like the Earth - winter, summer, polar caps that expand. On Earth we'd call that the snowline. Those are very earthlike things, and it is a place that we can visualize humans going to explore.”

“Those are very earthlike things.”

“Those are very earthlike things.”

[Jeff]

BTW: The original reason I recorded this was so that you could hear the Rain Piano. Do you like that great upright sound?

[Jeff]

This picture is closer to the theme of the song: