"Gone Beyond" genre: Folk
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	Submitting my anxiety over getting older to Buddhist scripture.
	MP3.com CD: Schedule II; Sampler - buy it! CD: -in process   Label: Refuge Art Credits: Doug Chamberlin
	Story Behind the Song I was housesitting for my folks. It was mid-winter in southwestern Michigan. I was living in Chicago and to visit the scene of my highschool life alone and that time of year was a bit haunting. I took myself to dinner one evening. It was a family owned place out in the country with huge picture windows over looking a field bordered by a stand of hardwoods. I sat before one of those windows, pulled out a pen and on a napkin penned the lyrics to this tune. I had recorded the melody/rythym tracks on a little Fostex four-track. It was a flutter kick sort of '80s thing with alot of sound. I decided it didn't work with all of that production. I redid it as a folk song, guitar and vocals to click-track on a Fostex hard-disk. I overdubbed percussion on a dumbek, shakers, finger cymbals and a Yamaha sample of an oil drum hit. Then I washed it with a volume pedal guitar track with lots of delay. My vocalist at the time wanted a more upbeat rendition of the song. She won ofcourse and the result of that can be heard on "Fields in Fall"(see bio). I had sworn that I would use the old tracks and redo the piece the way I had envisioned it. So six years later here's the old version, remixed, augmented with Triton percussion samples and a fine shakahuchi. Lyrics into the night sad and dark the cool concluding space into the night a kinder light to trace this pilgrims face bound beneath Orion neither predator nor prey heirless, void of property so far along the way into the night into the night where promise served me soft oblivion into the night and the lap of indigo i slept upon gone beyond and gone beyond the realm of my conceit gone beyond the rift so fast expanding at my feet into the night into the night all that i assumed myself to be into the night never was nor is nor shall now be gone beyond and gone beyond beyond beyond and gone

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