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A LIFE WITHIN A LIFE (FROM THE BOOK, "POEMS AND OTHER SUCH FORGOTTEN DILEMMAS")

from EASY SUNSHINE (2024 Remaster) by The Santairs

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This is a poem I wrote specifically to be read out loud. I recorded it using my regular voice, but during the mixing process, I decided to have some fun with it and dropped it down a pitch, added a bunch of heavy reverb, and EQ'd and Compressed the heck out of it to get my end result.
This is song #253.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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Of What I Am Thinking While The Tears Are Sprinkling
And The Stars Are Twinkling On,
I Feel I Am Sinking As My Face Is Wrinkling
To That Elegant, Radiant Song.

But Tragedy Had Stuck. I Ran Out Of Luck
With My Soul Of Muck And Sod,
All That I Tuck, My Mind In A Ruck.
Is There Truly Such Thing As A God?

With Everything I Knew, I Believed It Was True
To Say What We Do Is Wrong;
But I Haven't A Clue On What I Should Do,
For I Have Been Dead So Long.

A Sordid Life, A Mischievous Wife,
A Malady Strife--Be Gone!
To Think That A Knife Can End A Man's Life,
Nothing We Do Is Won.

I Am In Hell With These Clanging Of Bells.
I Hope This Spell Will Leave.,
But Once I Fell, I Knew I Could Tell
I'd Dwell In Abyss, Conceived.

Yet How Did I Die? I Told Of No Lies,
Hearing The Screams Of Delight,
As I Sit Here And Sigh, I'll Ask Myself Why
That I Feel I'm Insane Tonight.

I Still Cry For Peace, Though My World Has Ceased,
For My Life Surceased In Sorrow.
Yet I Am Deceased, I'll Continue My Feast
Until My Dying Days Of Morrow.

My Life's At An End And Never Will Mend,
And The Devil Will Send His Son.
Would Someone Please Lend An Enemy Or Friend?
Nothing I Do Is Won.

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from EASY SUNSHINE (2024 Remaster), released July 19, 2017
Wayde K. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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