The Code Breaker: A part of the play.

A new week in the shadow of winter. A few things.

It’s a reflective day. I feel like the stars are following me for some reason… as I sat at my parking lot beach this morning running through my vocal scales to the hum of city lights. Patterns and scales turned to words like I was at an opera. “Oh madness brings me peace, a tiny peace, a tiny lease. on life…. Oh there’s something in the wind tonight, even the leaves are brighter… the clouds have colored me with a smile today, the past is gone… and it’s ok… there’s something in the wind tonight…” Somber words to piano scales perhaps for the rock king bridge, who knows……. If you look closely, there’s a little hope in that phrase… a little freedom too. I think I’m part of a play. I’m in it.

I woke at 3:30 thinking about the string inside of ‘City Of Fire”, my feet were tapping to the patterns from verse to bridge to chorus… the puzzle was working itself out in my mind as I slept. I sprung to the living room to find my little fender squire staring at me… shivering in the autumn breeze that’s been hanging around my balcony. My little golden squire is missing some M3 screws on her high E string saddle, but she still sings in her lower register. I quickly began unwinding the string that had my feet shaking in bed… I think I cracked the code… finally. After a weekend of laying backgrounds on the canvas of my little City of Fire tale… I think I finally unlocked the key to the details. This is my life… puzzles and pieces out of sorts… until they suddenly start to show a picture underneath. It’s great when I can complete one… I do have puzzles that are 75% complete scattered around the house. Sometimes I don’t really like what I’m seeing, and they sit. Anyway, now that I think I have the code… it’s a matter of getting to the lock and with Stargazer Video edits and mixing audio this week… well I’m left with it idle in my pocket until I can turn the key. I will say, there’s a sense of relief now though… and it’s a feeling I know all to well as a puzzle builder… a feeling only a code breaker knows. We’ll see.

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Stargazer: Counting down.

In light of the Stargazer music video being very close to completing and released, an image of the band was commissioned from Lord Trident of Remrod for promotional purposes. Just thought I would share his work. If you look close you can see his tail in the image.

The video will be released on the Diamonds Hadder Youtube channel when it's ready. We mix the final audio for the video on Wednesday night in the land of Gardens... so look for a finish video soon after I suppose.

I have grand hopes for this video page in the near future, and this website for that matter. Stargazer will be the first to start it off... on the official video side of things. but I have so many ideas that are passing me like ships in a storm constantly. I can hardly keep up with my notes and thoughts. But I do. I'm so proud of this first piece to the puzzle. It was the hardest one to choose and I didn't know where to put it at first... but it makes a lot of sense... the Stargazer.

It's hard to believe that I held back on releasing things for so long... I did take a willing leap of faith.... which did fail me a little. I really was chasing the sun knowing that the day behind me was closing in. It's very fortunate for me that I can play guitar and all the instrument adequately enough as it gives me an opportunity to finish the vocal material I lost so much sleep over the last few years. So with "City of Fire" approaching the closing days of edits and loud listens, I'm super excited. And if they all can come out the way I feel "City of Fire" did... well... it just takes a lot off my mind and my heart.

There's a little crack in the armor... and the wall is down while I sharpen things and look for dry wood. Just saying. Believe in yourself and the rest will follow.

-evermore

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The City of Fire: A new Song... an old tale.

Just wanted to share the lyrics to "City of Fire", now that it seems to be my next main focus. It was named after a view I had of BOK one afternoon while sitting on the hillside. The city was catching late sunlight and a strange fog was behind the city kissing the distant mountains, so the towers and spires where glowing almost as though they were on fire.. an illusion that was magnified as the city seemed to hover in the air against the grey gloom and dark mountains of the day behind it. I remember things. Anyway, the tale of this song and the creation of it goes back a little while and so what you'll hear soon enough is a wonderful story that took many twists and turns to arrive finally at this moment. It will be really nice to finish it and release it and move on. I literally have books of lyrics to this track... which is generally the process for me as I'm constantly sculping the lyrics and patterns to Hadder tracks. I generally always see things in my mind as I'm writing lyrics... and I tend to see these images flashing as a song is playing. Some words take longer than most to pen, and this tale took a long time to crack the code, at least how I envisioned it anyway. It might not get a grammy nod, but it's almost done.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/77466a_9f2c7048279649b999e5d677f602c788/360p/mp4/file.mp4

Video Info:

Just some "City Of Fire - soloed Vocal Tracks with Keys" - played along to some cringe worthy video clips from various test footage and video shoots I've done around BOK in the last few months. I have some rather grand ideas for this video once the track is completed. I'll try to release some stuff along the way.

“City of Fire”

Was an angle, lured was he,

by whispers in the serpents tree

it said... take a bite before you leave

so cast out from the garden...damned was he

day and night they worked their wicked fingers to the bloody bones

slaves to his unholy reign

like moths drawn to the flame

into the fire

city of fire

city of fire

so the king he was pleased

vowed his kingdom not be seen

but only by the sinners be

who dare to seek.. who dared to see

years did pass, his palace hid, so proud of all the work they did

he cast them last into the sea to guard the waters of the deep beneath

Below the Cliffs a masons road

at the end a doorway goes

shimmers when the sun it shows

the city of fire

mirrored castles echo the golden rays

flaming spires adorn misty lanes

paved before we ever came

BEHOLD!!!

the city of fire

So we race the sun... born to run, on a midnight turn to nowhere.

So we race the sun... born to run, on a midnight turn....

to nowhere!!!!

City of Fire

City of Fire

City of Fire

City of Fire

So we Race the Sun born to run… until the midnight comes

And we face the one... who built the sun… to hide it all

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