Tag: Imaginary Lines Album Tracks

Imaginary Lines I

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Imaginary Lines IOriginal Release: October 10, 2005

“Side One”
The Phoenix
Good Friday
Perfect Light
Lorelei

“Side Two”
33 Flames for Mary
Anthem
Donovan’s Dread
Peace
One

All songs later included on Imaginary Lines 33

Welcome Home

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Written by Ric Albano Song Length: 3:17
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Lyrics
I’m so glad to meet you, I’ve heard so much about you, welcome home
Your presence is striking, I’m overwhelmed yet delighted, welcome home
It’s amazing how you emerged from the darkness into the light this day

I’ll cradle you in your blanket cocoon
And I’ll be uptight and awake the next four nights
And I’ll warm your drink and tap your back
Scold your older sister to grow up because you’re never going back

I’ve heard much about you and I’m so glad to meet you, welcome home
Our miracle baby blue, we’re indebted to God for you
Your raspy little laughs and cries, the sweetest music that I’ll ever heard

I’ll try to sooth your pain when discomfort arrives
Advocate for you and personify
The best man I can be and I’ll work for you everyday
Forage for pay so someday we can build you a new home
Welcome home

Welcome home

Composition © 1998 Ric Albano
Publication © 2005, 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

 Song Info
Composed on January 15, 1998
Recorded April 7, 2005
at Saturation Acres, Danville, PA
Produced & Engineered by Ric Albano
Previously Unreleased

Performers
Ric Albano
Piano, Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Vocals

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Grade

Analysis: First recording made at Saturation Acres studio.

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Paradise

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Written by Ric Albano Song Length: 3:20
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Lyrics
In Paradise on Sunlight Street
I’ll convene with the coterie in the day
Caliginous yet precise, there’s a balance we must strike
To stay aligned while we play, while some angels say;

“Her life did not begin at conception…
It is your solemn ‘choice’ to expose her bones and rip her heart away”

From Paradise, where we eagerly anticipate our upcoming, coming of age
And project how nice now must be for those elders
Who already have been born to that stage, still thee angels claim;

“Life is at the mother’s discretion…
And to give her a voice would be to jeopardize that prerogative someday”

In Paradise, when it’s quiet we can hear
The eerie echos of the past moans of the other’s voice
Rudely awaken at night and taken away from their homes
Away from their homes, for reasons unknown
Into the darkness to nevermore cast eyes on the Day

“Life is but a random selection, collisions of dust…
Inside a closed system unaffected by any realm not portrayed”

Like Paradise, where I can sense the concern
And confusion in my mother these days
The daunting prospect of my delivery
Has led to her decision to send me away
Mother please let me stay, mommy please let me stay
I swear that I will make you very proud someday

Composition © 2004 Ric Albano
Publication © 2004, 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

 Song Info
Composed on March 17, 2004
Recorded Fall 2004
at Silver Spring Subterranean
Produced & Engineered by Ric Albano
Previously Unreleased

Performers
Ric Albano
Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Vocals

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Analysis: Recording from original “Imaginary Lines 2004” demo.

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Dawning of Decadence

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Written by Ric Albano Song Length: 2:12
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Instrumental

Composition © 1998 Ric Albano
Publication © 2004, 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

Song Info
Composed on March 1, 1998
Recorded Fall 2004
at Silver Spring Subterranean
Produced & Engineered by Ric Albano
Previously Unreleased

Performers
Ric Albano
Piano, Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Percussion

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Grade

Analysis: Recording from original “Imaginary Lines 2004” demo.

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I Don’t Want To Live Without It

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Written by Ric Albano Song Length: 3:13
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Lyrics
Rest assured, I do like your motives
You most certainly are on the side of the angels
But I don’t want it for myself
There’s plenty others who should get your help

A solid vision from top to floor
That surely addresses society’s ills to the core
But do me a favor and pass it along
It’s better suited for some impoverished pawn

A colossal derelict this may have been in the past
But that’s only because we didn’t act on it fast
So this time it must be implemented
We can’t allow anyone to circumvent it

Social isonomy for both the old and the young
Imagine all the people on the same ladder rung
That is except for us with the charge to oversee it
It’s the only way we can ever guarantee it

Please don’t remove one single thing from my basement
As a civil abettor I really think my haunt should be exempt
For these accouterments have been in my lineage for years
And unlike that common squatter I really hold mine dear
And I don’t want to live without it
No, I don’t think I should have to do without it

Composition © 2004 Ric Albano
Publication © 2004, 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

 Song Info
Composed on July 27, 2004
Recorded Fall 2004
at Silver Spring Subterranean
Produced & Engineered by Ric Albano
Previously Unreleased

Performers
Ric Albano
Keyboards, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Vocals

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Grade

Analysis: Recording from original “Imaginary Lines 2004” demo.

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