Tag: Ric Albano on Acoustic Guitars

If we all get together we can have some fun
If we all get together we’ll bring out the sun
If we all get together we’ll show the world how we’ve done our show

These days it is not wise to let your hair grow long
And noone wants to hear some simple, bluesey song
I really find things these days to be quite a bore

If we all get together we can make our run
If we all get together we can stop the guns
If we all get together we’ll put an end to the war

I’d like to go to Woodstock on some time-warp train
With a half a million pople I’d stand out in the rain
And noone really noticed discomfort or pain at all
It’s groovy when the people can express what they think
Because a chain is only as strong as its weakest link
Let’s all get together and we’ll all be standing tall

But these days are in existance and those are gone
So we’ll have to bear with the boring life of Tron
Someday we’ll come of age and again we’ll move on, I know

If we all get together we’ll complete the task
If we all get together we’ll rip off the mask
If we all get together we’ll break off our cast and grow

Composition © 1989 Ric Albano
Publication © 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

Performers
Ric Albano
12-string Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Vocals

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Analysis: This is a true hippie song that I wrote after visiting the site of Woodstock on its 20^th anniversary. The music cnsists of a 12-string acoustic and a freaked-out, chorus-driven electric, which fell in perfectly withthe theme. The lyrics are quite Utopian and naive and the spirit behind the song was “why is there no celebration on its anniversary?” Little did I know that there would be cncerts honoring the 25^th and 30^th anniversaries in the next five and ten years.

And once we had life in the palm of our hands
But we held on too tight and it fell through like sand
Let’s hope that tommorrow we better undestand

Left on the shores of Neverland
Gone too far on the seas to find the land
Hope somehow we’re get our ships back in flight
But for now we’re lost in an eternal night

Hope and pray someday we’ll find out if life somehow has meaning
The way to Heaven requires a bit of dreaming, not only through the ceiling
Someday we’ll find out meaning some way

The road to success is bumpy with rocks
With more than its share of low blows and hard knocks
But you don’t always find happiness at the top

And once we had life in the palm of our hands
But it was taken from us, givin to a better man
He may lose it too if he doesn’t understand

Left on the shores of Neverland
Gone too far on the seas to find the land
Hope somehow we’re get our ships back in flight
But for now we’re lost in an eternal night

Hope and pray someday we’ll find out if life somehow has meaning
The way to Heaven requires a bit of dreaming, not only through the ceiling
Someday we’ll find out meaning some way

Left on the shores of Neverland
Gone too far on the seas to find the land
But somehow we’re get our ships back in flight
But for now we’re lost in an eternal night

Hope and pray someday we’ll find out if life somehow has meaning
The way to Heaven requires a bit of dreaming
Someday we’ll find out if life somehow has meaning
The way to Heaven requires a bit of dreaming, not only through the ceiling
Someday we’ll find out meaning some way

Composition © 1988, 1990 Ric Albano
Publication © 2011 Cygnus Wave Music

Performers
Ric Albano
Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Harmonica, All Vocals

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Analysis: The best song from the early years of 1987-88. A philosophical lyric shared by two “voices”, guides the driving acoustic guitars, which were added in 1990 to the original 1988 all-electric recording, which is laid bare during the odd yet entertaining guitar lead.