Tag: Songs from 2004

Imaginary Lines I

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Imaginary Lines IOriginal Release: October 10, 2005

“Side One”
The Phoenix
Good Friday
Perfect Light
Lorelei

“Side Two”
33 Flames for Mary
Anthem
Donovan’s Dread
Peace
One

All songs later included on Imaginary Lines 33

Paradise

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Bonus Track by 

Written by Ric Albano Song Length: 3:20
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Lyrics
In Paradise on Sunlight Street
I’ll convene with the coterie in the day
Caliginous yet precise, there’s a balance we must strike
To stay aligned while we play, while some angels say;

“Her life did not begin at conception…
It is your solemn ‘choice’ to expose her bones and rip her heart away”

From Paradise, where we eagerly anticipate our upcoming, coming of age
And project how nice now must be for those elders
Who already have been born to that stage, still thee angels claim;

“Life is at the mother’s discretion…
And to give her a voice would be to jeopardize that prerogative someday”

In Paradise, when it’s quiet we can hear
The eerie echos of the past moans of the other’s voice
Rudely awaken at night and taken away from their homes
Away from their homes, for reasons unknown
Into the darkness to nevermore cast eyes on the Day

“Life is but a random selection, collisions of dust…
Inside a closed system unaffected by any realm not portrayed”

Like Paradise, where I can sense the concern
And confusion in my mother these days
The daunting prospect of my delivery
Has led to her decision to send me away
Mother please let me stay, mommy please let me stay
I swear that I will make you very proud someday

Composition © 2004 Ric Albano
Publication © 2004, 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

 Song Info
Composed on March 17, 2004
Recorded Fall 2004
at Silver Spring Subterranean
Produced & Engineered by Ric Albano
Previously Unreleased

Performers
Ric Albano
Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Vocals

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Analysis: Recording from original “Imaginary Lines 2004” demo.

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I Don’t Want To Live Without It

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Bonus Track by 

Written by Ric Albano Song Length: 3:13
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Lyrics
Rest assured, I do like your motives
You most certainly are on the side of the angels
But I don’t want it for myself
There’s plenty others who should get your help

A solid vision from top to floor
That surely addresses society’s ills to the core
But do me a favor and pass it along
It’s better suited for some impoverished pawn

A colossal derelict this may have been in the past
But that’s only because we didn’t act on it fast
So this time it must be implemented
We can’t allow anyone to circumvent it

Social isonomy for both the old and the young
Imagine all the people on the same ladder rung
That is except for us with the charge to oversee it
It’s the only way we can ever guarantee it

Please don’t remove one single thing from my basement
As a civil abettor I really think my haunt should be exempt
For these accouterments have been in my lineage for years
And unlike that common squatter I really hold mine dear
And I don’t want to live without it
No, I don’t think I should have to do without it

Composition © 2004 Ric Albano
Publication © 2004, 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

 Song Info
Composed on July 27, 2004
Recorded Fall 2004
at Silver Spring Subterranean
Produced & Engineered by Ric Albano
Previously Unreleased

Performers
Ric Albano
Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Vocals

Listener Guide
Grade

Analysis: Recording from original “Imaginary Lines 2004” demo.

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Speak No Evil

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Bonus Track by 

Written by Ric Albano Song Length: 2:45
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Lyrics
I set my feet down upon that street
For the first time in many, many years
Old, familiar surroundings
But as I glimpsed the sights and smelled the air
My eyes began to well over with tears
In nostalgia, I’m drowning

I used to breathe this air each day
Throughout these passages I’d dream and scheme and play
But no one talks about the, no, no one talks about the…
The situations that forbade my kind to stay

I do my best to try and assist
This frail old woman with those familiar eyes
You know, she used to be stronger
But now she’s spinning round and round
Uncontrollably into a rapid demise
She probably won’t live much longer

She looks so frightened and confused
While Shirley Temple sings in infinite youth
But we won’t talk about it, we will not talk about it
Lest we reveal the piercing bitterness of truth

Composition © 2004 Ric Albano
Publication © 2004, 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

 Song Info
Composed on May 4, 2004
Recorded Fall 2004
at Silver Spring Subterranean
Produced & Engineered by Ric Albano
Previously Unreleased

Performers
Ric Albano
Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Vocals

Listener Guide
Grade

Analysis: Recording from original “Imaginary Lines 2004” demo.

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Imaginary Lines Songs

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   Song  Year Length Track
 33 Flames for Mary 2003  5:57   13
 33 Shots at Louis 2006  3:07   23
 999 Escape 2008  3:20    5
 A New Religion 2006  4:11   25
 Anthem 2003  4:39   14
 Ashes 2008  1:16    8
 Believe 2006  4:19   24
 Can’t Get My Mojo Risin’ 2009  2:14    7
 Crimson, White, & Indigo 2006  4:13    1
 The Cup 2006  4:18   26
 Dawning of Decadence 1998  2:18  Bonus
 Deuce 2006  5:29   31
 Donovan’s Dread 2005  3:16   15
 Donovan’s Dread (Live) 2005  2:09  Bonus
   Song  Year Length Track
 Elitist Lament 2000  6:41  Bonus
 The Fool’s Overture 2007  4:12   18
 Good Friday 2002  7:50   10
 Half Hearted 2007  4:52   32
 Here On the Beach 2006  3:00   29
 I Don’t Want to Live Without It 2004  3:13  Bonus
 Keep Doing What You Do 2006  5:04   20
 The Last Man to Walk Alone 2006  3:49   21
 Long Way Home 2007  6:03   33
 Long Way Home (Original Version) 2007  6:14  Bonus
 Lorelei 2004  6:30   12
 Naked 2006  4:35   30
 The Old Man In the Sea 2006  3:54   27
 One 2004  5:47   17
   Song  Year Length Track
 Paradise 2004  3:20  Bonus
 Peace 2005  4:45   16
 Perfect Light 2004  4:26   11
 The Phoenix 2004  3:56    9
 Princess of Pearl Avenue 2006  4:22    4
 Rubicon 2009  2:33    3
 Rubicon (Live) 2009  2:42  Bonus
 She Said 2006  3:09   19
 Sister Josephine 2008  4:32    2
 Song For Diane (Don’t Give Up) 2008  3:28  Bonus
 Speak No Evil 2004  2:45  Bonus
 Tommy’s Got a Gun 2008  3:09    6
 Twilight Of Innocence 1997  7:02   28
 Welcome Home 1998  3:17  Bonus
 You Sure Were Fun 2005  4:16   22

 
 

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