FREE SONG #4

For your fourth free song, I'm giving you the title song of our latest album, "Under The Floor, Over The Wall".

When I wrote this song, I had an interesting goal. Fans often talk about liking "story songs", but when I think of the story songs I know, they aren't really stories at all. A story has to have a protagonist, and challenge of some sort, the protagonists efforts to accomplishment, and a conclusion. Most story songs I knew really just decribed a charactor, and his life.  So I set about to write a song that tells a complete story, from introduction, to explaining charactors, the charactors challenge...the whole shebang.

I also wanted to have a dark threatening sounding song that completely tranformed inself into a happy song for the happy ending. I heard Sting do this in his song Ghost Story, and I was completely blown away. So I set about writing my own.

"Under The Floor, Over The Wall."
Two Small Girls

under The Floor

Under The Weather

Under The Shadow of a Darkened...

Behind closed doors

living in secret

living in fear

nearly forgotten

as they hide down there

families hide,

families dying and their starving and their poor

from the day they first hide

and they had no friends, 

they had no love, and they dreamed of a day they could wake from this tomb

Here the cries of the kids above you

Here the joy you can never have

feel the pain of your empty coffers

echoing hole rips your heart in half 

And so they left

broke through the bonds

broke through the floor,  

and ran to the roof tops were they felt 

wind on their face

they looked through the darkness 

and the saw past the fog

 to the edge of the wall 

then a shadow fell, 

something above

something that hunted, 

so they ran and the ran from the night and hide in the ground

but the creatures came,

deep in their home, 

found mother dying, 

and the girls couldn’t hide 

So they ran to the wall,

looked out in the blackness, 

saw only stars

where every they looked

Brought with them a kite

they told from the toyshop

held on to the string, and held on to it tight

and the beast came again, 

 it came for behind them

So the girls ...closed …their... eyes, 

 …held... their …breath...and ... jumped.

And they flew 

far into the blue

and they flew

over grassy fields, and trees

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