"Prometheus Scatters Ashes" genre: Alternative General
	lo fi play (dial-up) hi fi play (broadband)	email track to a friend	add to My.MP3
	'Prometheus Scatters Ashes' is a hypnotic, mellow, full piece ... heavily laden with unusual verse. Larry Lawrence punches in the first line with his handmade, fretless, Fender Jazz Master bass guitar. Andrew Cann adds harmonics on a Fender Malibu dreadnought. Adding groove upon grooove are Fred Lieder on his 150-year old Cello, Norm Thorne on drums, Don Stapleson's flute tracks, and Cris Chillura on a Fender Strat.
	MP3.com CD: XYRA ... Delicate Anger - buy it! CD: Where Glass Birds Fly - Xyra & Verborgen   Label: Riding the Dragonfly Credits: Lyrics & Music - Xyra, Recorded & produced by Marco Delmar & Robert Goldstein, Recording Arts Studio ... Mastered by Bill Wolf ... All Rights Reserved - Xyra & Verborgen ... Copyright - 1998 ... Cover painting 'The Angel of Nekia' by A. Andrew Gonzalez
	Story Behind the Song Supplying him with a sketchy journal, Nico said of Richard Watts' prospective biography, The Loves and Lies of an Icon, "...It will be half truth, half lies." 'Prometheus Scatters Ashes' holds truth, but is equally symbolic and metaphorical. It is a love song, and yet a song about human advancement and prophecy. It also touches on an actual visit my manager and I paid to his old college buddy, the publicity director at Arista Records, in NYC ... (*Note the optional verse.) Clive Davis then towered in an office accessible from a spiral staircase, off the 8th floor, where I was. How I longed to climb those stairs, but did not, *to wit: "All doors barred shut, no more Everything is there, she climbs the precious stair . . . He waits for you . . . " (Written well before the visit, I hadn't recognized it as being remotely prophetic ... 'Opportunity knocks - Are you ready?') Lyrics There he was, waiting for you You had waited for so long In his mind, a present for you In his eyes, a song The waters rang like echoes Of a past most true The air was clear, as azure blue Count on what you can see through . . . Count on what you can see through . . . Waters deep cleanse my soul Knowledge spent on Rock and Roll These are promises from which we try to escape Mountains steep, like shadows on an ant’s landscape You cast down, rise up, there’s more . . .Cast down, rise up, there’s more . . . Oh there’s more! Prometheus flew by, scattering ashes Jung and Freud tallied up their losses Marie Antoinette, you were, so said a would be prophet We all must rise, we all must rise . . . We ALL must rise! Optional verse: All doors barred shut, no more Everything is there, she climbs the precious stair . . . He waits for you, he waits for you Count on what you can see through . . . You CAN see through!

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).