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Up Ahead (Ryn #1) (demo)

from The Muse Tree (Demos) by Julian Rai

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"Up Ahead"
(Ryn #1)
From "The Muse Tree (Demos)"
Julean and the Rai (as Julian Rai)
Copyright 2003 Julian D. Rai (BMI)

VERSE I
Woke at 5 am, now it's 6 in the morning
Huddled like 7 heads hanging, walking
Hawaii was calling out to Ryn --
Who was the master of the task at hand,
The moving hand; the
Sleight-of-hand that was the Time.

VERSE II
So we took those moments, that were
Creased, and were folded, held them in
Palms that were sweating; and forgetting.
His lover Josie'd run away.
She turned 16 that day ...
and I promised Ryn that I'd look after her.
But I couldn't find her sometime afterward.

PRE-CHORUS !
And with that amulet I gave you
I didn't expect that it would save you, man
No; it was just made of the stuff
that made you, Ryn.

VERSE III
Light had a tendency to curve in this town.
And it'd wrapped the dawn around us, halfway down...
I turned to look at you as you watched the ground ...
Your eyes goodbye-ing to the pavement.

VERSE IV
To most of us you were the "Independent One".
First one to leave the classroom; first one to strike out on your own.
And now you're the first of us to travel on...
But I could tell that you were unfamiliar
With permanently stepping out of childhoood.

PRE-CHORUS II
And on that paper that I gave you
About the changes that surround you, man ...
I swear I wouldn't ever wish that upon you --

CHORUS
And Up Ahead
There's a bus waiting to take you Home.
And so the six of us walked back Alone.
Just as the tendrils of the dawn
Shone on us all ...
We watched the patterns of our Lives
Fall down.
And with this feeling that the Change
Has gotta' come ...
The Walk Back was not an
Easy One.

BRIDGE
Hey; we were all handshakes and machismo
Me ripping pages from my notebook
The necklace I'd worn since I met you
I felt driven to present you
And once the bus was in the distance
No one here has seen you since
Most of us, no longer friends

We knew we might be seperated
What we were all thinking, no one said it
But suddenly our lives were 'complicated'.

VERSE V
We herded back past where the city lie
Past all the gravel trucks and traffic lights
Past all the busy, bustling passers-by
No one seemed to notice you were missing.

VERSE VI
Soon, thereafter we all parted ways
And in walked the Summer, where the Troubles came
But I walked stubbornly on, anyway
Just so long as I was moving

PRE-CHORUS III
Seems like everyone in Dayton
There's built on Apit and Hesitation
But we were the Kids of the Creation.

Lyrics and music copyright 1995, 1996, 2003 Julian D. Rai (BMI), All Rights Reserved. Recorded and mastered by Julian Rai. Additional performances by Michael Solomon (Djembe).

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from The Muse Tree (Demos), released April 21, 2003
Lyrics and music copyright 1995, 1996, 2003 Julian D. Rai (BMI), All Rights Reserved. Recorded and mastered by Julian Rai. Additional performances by Michael Solomon (Djembe) and Leila Lopez (Cello). Cover art photography by Joshua J. Dallen. Cover art design by Julian Rai.

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Indie-folk / antifolk band spanning nearly 30 years and 12 live and studio releases, including the most recent "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness", and are currently remastering several albums for re-release in 2023. Julean is known for his dynamic voice, passionate onstage vocal delivery, and a playing style that swings wildly from soft and subtle to fast and breakneck. ... more

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