Name: Shan Shui
Channel: Cynthia Conrad, Margaret Browning, and Thomas Wall
Description: "Shan Shui" is a song by Blood Ruby. (04:37) Inspired by Chinese landscape scrolls and sung partly in Mandarin Chinese (or, more accurately, an approximation of it!).

Shan Shui

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(04:37) Inspired by Chinese landscape scrolls and sung partly in Mandarin Chinese (or, more accurately, an approximation of it!).

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Blood Ruby

Female-fronted atmospheric alternative music somewhere in the vein of dream pop, ethereal and neoprogressive rock.

Blood Ruby is Thomas Wall (guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, engineering), Cynthia Conrad (vocals, guitar), and Margaret Browning (bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals). Together, Blood Ruby creates a unique brand of atmospheric alternative music somewhere in the vein of dream pop, ethereal and neoprogressive rock.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Alternative General

Charts

Peak #784

Peak in subgenre #232

Author

Cynthia Conrad, Margaret Browning, and Thomas Wall

Rights

2003 Blood Ruby

Uploaded

November 16, 2003

Track Files

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MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

This is a revamped version of an older song originally written by Thomas and Cynthia. The recording process for this song began sometime in late 2001 or early 2002, but only recently got the polish it needed with Margaret’s airy keyboard touches. The lyrics were inspired by Chinese landscape scrolls and are partly in Mandarin Chinese (or, more accurately, an approximation of it!). The subject matter of the lyrics complements the somewhat Asian feel of the music.

Lyrics

By the wandering pines 
Where the sun goes hiding
Swims a little green trout
With its shadow wallowing low
Through the wandering stream
With the stones' slick sliding
And my little fin feet seem to know
Where the water must flow.

wo deng, wo deng, wo deng shan shui

At the foot of the falls,
Yellow footbridge leaping
To a narrow footpath
Where my footsteps following go,
Past the little red roofs
With their corners sweeping
Into bristling pines
With their twisted branches of cones.

The scroll unrolls under my feet.
Where will this painted path of paper
Finally lead?
Everything pulses; 
Everything is poised.
This wildness wrestles with its back
Against the void.
The scroll unrolls under my feet.
Where will this painted path of paper 
Finally lead?

On a bluff clings the brush,
Tiny tiptoes hanging
To the fissured-fist rocks
All upended and overthrown.
And the pillars pile up
To the clouds' soft longing;
Though the ladder grows steep,
My feet keep climbing the stone.

wo deng, wo deng, wo deng shan shui

wo wang le zi ji
gen wo lai han shang leng qi

The scroll unrolls under my feet.
Where will this painted path of paper
Finally lead?
Everything pulses; 
Everything is poised.
This wildness wrestles with its back
Against the void.
The scroll unrolls under my feet.
Where will this painted path of paper 
Finally lead?


Lyrics (c) 2003 Cynthia Conrad

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