Name: Microcosm
Duration: 30 min 55 s
Channel: Tom Byrne
Description: "Microcosm" is a song by Tom Byrne. Part I of 'The Eye of the Cyclone'. A 31 minute symphonic epic combining progressive rock and classical music. Got to #1 in its category.

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Part I of 'The Eye of the Cyclone'. A 31 minute symphonic epic combining progressive rock and classical music. Got to #1 in its category.

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Tom Byrne

Progressive, melodic, heavily orchestrated rock with celtic and space rock influences

] ');');');. I have privately released two albums, "The Last Druids" (2002) and "The Eye of the Cyclone" (2003). These are, according to one reviewer "progressive rock heavily informed by celtic music", though there are also space-rock influences in the second album. My next album "The Store of All the Worlds" will be released in March 2004. See album and concert reviews in the "Reviews" section. You may see reviews of the albums at the excellent "Aural Innovations" site: http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue22/tombyrne.html and http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue24/tombyrn2.html

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Symphonic

Charts

#912 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #2

Author

Tom Byrne

Rights

Tom Byrne

Uploaded

July 20, 2004

Track Files

MP3

MP3 28.3 MB • 128 kbps • 30:55

Story behind the song

Part I of 'The Eye of the Cyclone'. Part II, 'Macrocosm' is also on Soundclick. Got to #1 in its category.

Lyrics

The first thing that you find
When stepping out
Is that no amount
Of experience
Of life before you
Went through that doorway
Can tell
You how
The world will seem
Or what it will mean 
To you
Well
Or ill
You've cleansed perception
And entered heaven or hell.

When you step from the eye of the cyclone
You are standing all alone in the storm
When you step from a linear time zone
All the minutes seem days
When you're looking for ways
To return
Back home
You hope you can learn
To find
Some peace from the storm.

The worst change that your mind
Can undergo will be not to know the difference
Between earthly things
And what chaos brings from the storm
That now
Has sprung your vision from kindly prison
From warm
To trauma
Find the fetters to bind you back to the norm 

Like a rock I'll stand against the furies of the storm
Let the eddies taunt in vain
I'll never come to harm