"To Leave a Dying World" - D-TUBE EXCLUSIVE MUSIC VIDEO - Steem Collab w/@calluna | Gnash Song Challenge #6
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Guitar is in open Dsus2 tuning - from low string to high string DADEAD
Lyrics by @calluna
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To Leave a Dying World
Lyrics by @calluna | Music by @carlgnash
I dream each night
Of how the stars look from home
But still I roam
But still I roam
Behold! That
Distant shining sun
Where life begun
Where life begun
Watch for her flicker
Where home passes by
Across the sky
Across the sky
That life we left
Drifts further away
Each passing day
Each passing day
Those we loved
Linger there no more
In our hearts they roar
In our hearts they roar
The bluest blue
Oh slowly fades to black
No turning back
No turning back
Our hearts echo
Of oceans left behind
But in our mind
But in our mind
Yet here we are
Lost but still alive
We will survive
We will survive
And so we go on
To places still unknown
And dream of home
And dream of home
Post cover image started life as a photo of a plate painted by @calluna and featured in this post where these original lyrics were first published:
https://steemit.com/poem/@calluna/to-leave-a-dying-world-birthday-post
I ran the original plate image through deepdreamgenerator.com to create this image.
Previous Gnash Song Challenge Entries:
#1 - "Analyze My Function" w/@vachemorte
#2 - "Within Wing's Wind" w/@yahialababidi
https://steemit.com/dtube/@carlgnash/1mwk8ljv
#3 - "Big Brown Toad" w/@amberyooper
https://steemit.com/dtube/@carlgnash/t8q7ooqf
#4 - "Ode to my Crawdad" w/@dillemma
https://steemit.com/dtube/@carlgnash/uhwe1ioy
#4 - "Funk Your Feet" w/@limabeing
https://steemit.com/dtube/@carlgnash/12fdogoa
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Great job both of you! It's awesome to see D.tube exclusive videos because it gives people another reason to come to this amazing site. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks - totally agree about the value of D-Tube exclusive videos :) Cheers - Carl
all those song you did in this series are beautiful and instant hits. Really catchy. Congrats @calluna to have those beautiful lyrics sang by the bearded legend himself!
I love you man
Wistful stuff, @carlgnash, like a sigh put to song. I'm especially susceptible to the sweet suffering in the lyrics, since I hear the echoes of an immigrant's lament (something I'm familiar with).
Then again, according to Sufism (Islamic mysticism) all of life is a kind of protracted Homesickness, a great & insatiable Longing...
Wonderful collaboration, you two; it left me eager to explore more of @calluna's work! Off to do so, now :) Cheers, Yahia
I love that Sufi concept - I am something of a non-denominational mystic myself :)
Yes, I figured as much :)
This sounds so amazing! This is how collaborations should be.
Thanks! I have been having an absolute blast with this series of posting. So much fun to collaborate with the other amazing talented creative folk here on Steem :)
Oh my word this is incredible!!! To be totally honest, I was nearly sick after I heard it, because this is EXACTLY how I heard it in my head. It is crazy eerie to hear your imagination captured in real life this perfectly. It is like a dream coming to life. I am just totally blow away, you have captured it so so perfectly, so perfectly in fact, I am becoming convinced one of the following must be true.
For sanity's sake, I am going with number 2. I cannot tell you how amazing it is to hear someone else sing this. I know it wasn't really, but next time someone asks me what my best birthday present this year was, this song will be my answer.
Thank you so much!! I am just totally blown away, and kinda babbling lol - I will have to calm down before I can get to work on another entry!
Thank you so much for bringing this to life, for your amazing words, and most of all, throwing my reality into question, it makes the world seem that bit more magical.
Well I think #3 is definitely true in some senses of the word "real", but I am going for #2 as well :) This makes me so happy to read your response! Yay! I totally heard a song while I was first reading this poem, even before I made it to the bottom of the post where you said you also heard it as a song. I think you and I are both made up of some of the same raw stuff of imagination - we have already talked Lovecraft / weird horror, and sci-fi is another of my first loves. You rock and this was a ton of fun. I love Steem collaborations.
Much love - Carl
Sounds awesome carl and @calluna!
Check out @calluna's writing if you haven't - I really enjoy it :)