Pink Clouds (An Ode to Insanity)

from Setting Down a Different Path EP by Amber of the Land

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A progressive-y track that starts out on a fast, almost Katatonia-esque bent, but then starts going full crazy into something akin to progressive metal. It breaks into a bridge where I was trying to convey some sort of Rush influence with the drum fills, Hammond and Moog solo. Also trying to sing as high as Geddy Lee may not be a great idea for my voice (the high note layered into "gold" and in the na na na's).

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Lost in this moment
Born without a care
Even in this darkness
Joy is all I fare
Worries never guide me
When this light is in my eyes
If I could have one wish now
It would be for time to die

A sun that's always setting
The day is never young
Searching for the same things
The shadows are as one
Pale pink clouds fill the evening sky
All pains wash away today

Losing control of all sanity (it's gone, gone away)
Whatever is this, this pain that I feel (it's always haunting me)
Asylum is found in the lies that you tell me
But I'm washed aground
Dead as the clouds themselves

I wander endlessly through the nightmares
Looking for the truth
But you kept on lying
Who says I needed proof?

Clinging to hope, that all will be well (in time, time so long)
Destruction of doubt, the walls crashing down before my eyes tonight
Purgatory of the mind soon escaped
An ounce of happiness worth its weight in gold

A sun that's always setting
The day is never young
Searching for the same things
The shadows are as one
Pale pink clouds fill the evening sky
All pains wash away again

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from Setting Down a Different Path EP, released September 26, 2013

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Amber of the Land Hillsboro, Illinois

A programmed metal project by Adam O'Dell.

I also put my electronic projects on this page under my actual name.

My music is now CC Attribution licensed.

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