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On the Black Horizon
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Orestes goes west - bouncy but definitely in a minor key
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This is a one-man studio-based outfit which has two streams. One is to produce songs, with vocals, in a fairly conventional format, that you might expect a "real" band to play. The other is to produce instrumentals with experimental electronic sounds, the stranger the better, but hopefully still appealing. I love that virtual world full of beauty and weirdness. Perhaps that's where I'll go when I die.
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Country • Alternative Country
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#7,168 today Peak #112
#1,244 in subgenre Peak #15
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March 23, 2006
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MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 4:36
Story behind the song
I just had an idea of a lonely man pursued by his past - a bit like the Furies in Greek tragedy - who realizes that his only course of action is to turn round and become the pursuer. Amazingly just after we recorded it I saw a play called The Family Reunion by TS Eliot which is exactly the same idea. No I didn't rip it off.
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I dwell on the black horizon Where substance looks like the night I'm riding on 'cause it never ends Silhouette on the sunset light Travel west through the dusty rocks Trying to reach the sun Spectres rise up and follow me Reminding me of what I've done Must be a bigger man than me somewhere Holds the desert in his hand One by one the heroes vanish from the world In the mystery of sand (Like water poured on burning sand) In the night as I watch restlessly The wind blows down the track I am looking for whatever knows I'm coming Gonna beg it to take me back
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