The Everlasting Summer

Here is a majestic ballad to celebrate the summer solstice and its historical and ritual meaning to people. It's the high point of the year, but still it's only a transient moment in the cycle of the seasons. The song was inspired by a document about the song Killing Me Softy, the fantastic atmospheric pedal steel realtrack and a summer song contest. I wrote the lyrics again in Finnish but I couldn't get my usual Finnish singer so I had to turn to RnAM and translate the song, the lyrics may sound clumsy because I tried to keep alliteration and rhyming. I should have worked on it much more, but there was a deadline... Good practice anyway.

RnAM made fantastic work with the vocals once again, especially Anne-Marie's voice in the choruses is supernaturally beautiful and it blends nicely with the pedal steel. This was also the first trial with Shevannai "voice of elves" voice library, it gives nice ancient pagan feeling to the song.

RealDrums PraiseWorshipSlow16hts
Loop: HipHopOldSchool_woo_cha_beat80a

RealTracks:
Electric Bass #1592
Acoustic Guitar Pick #1814, #1765
Electric Guitar Dirty #808
Electric Guitar Gritty #842
Electric Guitar Held #1832
Electric Guitar Soloist #1514
Pedal Steel Background #2542
Electric Piano #2197
Flute #1336
Horn Section #2291
String Quartet #2335
Vibes #1215

Vocals:
RnAM
Shevannai
Birds (finch, nightingale etc.)

Music mixed in Adobe Audition, RnAM did the final mix with their vocals.

Lyrics:

In the shadows of the spruces
a shelter for a covert kiss
on the bed of underbrush
budding at the birth of bliss
the childhood grove glows green
attuning to your abyss.

I looked in your eyes high on pleasure
in your lily valley slept at leisure
I never thought that
you could take your gaze off
summer, the everlasting bloom.

Roaming on the rough rocks
alongside of a sturdy steep
in the dell of our daze
a spellbound seedling shyly sleeps
fading fear of a fiend
diving in the dawning deep.

I looked in your eyes with desire
an oak tree ritual by the Litha fire
I never thought that
you could take your gaze off
summer, the everlasting calm.

To the winter night
wild is the ride
of the fairy foal
if you lose control.

I looked in your eyes beneath the bower
the bond was sealed with the holy flower
I never thought that
you could take your gaze off
summer, the everlasting while.

---
Janne

Last edited by jannesan; 06/23/16 09:18 PM.
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