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HANDS OF THE FATES

from Touch Of Fantasy by Rice Cracker Project

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Recorded at our studio called CELL BLOCK, we wrote this song during one of our jams as The Rice Cracker Project back in 2009. We recorded it in 2010. It’s one of the few songs that we wrote during a jam where the riff came out spontaneously and we just ran with it. The music nearly wrote itself. I took the song home with me and wrote the words and finished off the choruses. It was a fun rock and roll tune to write and record. Jimi Hendrix was one of my inspirations of this song, especially with the backwards guitars and feedback I got into this performance.

Recorded in The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

lyrics

THE GIFT, I’M TOLD, I CARRY TO TEST,
IS BOUND FOR FAILURE LIKE ALL OF THE REST.
THE PAINS I CARRY AND JUST CAN’T RELIEVE
CONTINUES THE DOUBT THAT I SEEM TO RECEIVE. OH NO!

I USE WHAT I HAVE AND HAVE WHAT I USE;
SOMETIMES TO BEAR AND SOMETIMES TO LOSE—
STILL I STAND AND CARRY THE WEIGHT
OF THE CURSE I WAS GIVEN BY THE HANDS OF THE FATES.

DRIVE ME DOWN, DRIVE ME HARDER,
DROWNING FISH OUT OF WATER,
HELP ME OUT OF THIS CLUTTER WITH THE HANDS OF THE FATES.
(SOLO)
TRYING SO HARD AND TRY AS I DO,
WHILE TIRED OF BEING MOST BRILLIANT OF FOOLS.
THE FIGHT THAT’S IN ME STILL CARRIES A LOAD—
AN ONGOING STRIFE; AN UNENDING ROAD.

GET ME OUT, GET ME FURTHER
AS WE SHOUT AT ONE ANOTHER
HELP ME OUT AS I SHUDDER VIA HANDS OF THE FATES. OO!
(SOLO)

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from Touch Of Fantasy, released June 1, 2010
Wayde K. Brown-Nick Wilcox-Stephen Prescott

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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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