Neverworld
By Cosmic Cairns on September 25, 2024 9:48 pm
Outside our hotel room in Hawaii there were a couple of what I thought were birds talking to each other from trees at night. I stood right below the trees they seemed to be coming from and recorded a little of their conversation with my phone as I tried to spot them. As hard as I looked, I couldn't see them. I did a little online research and realized they most likely were not birds, but rather tiny little frogs about the size of a penny. That's probably why I couldn't see them. They were really loud for being so small.
A couple nights later we were gassing up the car at a station near a big grove of trees. It sounded like there were hundreds of the frogs talking to each other and it sounded really cool. I recorded some of that on my phone as well. It didn't do it justice to how it sounded in real life, but it was still pretty neat.
I used the phone recordings I made as the backdrop for this week's track. I somehow managed to improvise the guitar solo at the end in one take. It's a little raggedy, but I kind of like that.
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The mist was dissipating
Orange light filled the horizon
Rolling meadows lay unfurled
And tucked down in the valley
Light blue lagoons were shimmering
Deep inside the Neverworld
Fields of grass were swaying
Echoes reverberating
Through the canyons and the hills
And off in the distance
A crystal tower glistens
Watching over things unreal
Radiant moonbows faded
The Eastern skies were brightening
Ocean waves rippled and curled
Bright colored flowers opened
To greet the rising sun as
Morning broke in Neverworld
Waterfalls cascaded
And dolphins were elated
To frolic in the sheltered bay
Hummingbirds flit near trees
Danced with fuzzy bumblebees
Singing their way through the day
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