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    "Journey North"genre: Progressive Rock
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    An imaginary trip to Iceland. Old demo recorded in my home studio, for what it's worth (I still like it).
    CD: Orion   Label: SP'AM Records
    Credits: All instruments and vocals: Fred Lessing, except clarinet performed by Maria João Tavares

    Story Behind the Song
    Inspired by our dummer's 'Scandimania' and Portugal's best red. Of course I've never been to Iceland, but it did inspire my first extended-length track.

    Lyrics
    JOURNEY NORTH

    1. PREPARATION & ASSORTED READINGS
    Þegar Norðmenn fundu Ísland á síðara hluta
    níundu aldar, komu þeir að óbyggðu landi.
    Með stofnun Alþingis settu þeir á fót lýðveldi, sem stóð þar til um miðja þrettándu öld. Þá hafði um nokkur ár verið ófriður innanlands meðal höfðingja, og endaði hann með því, að landið gekk Noregskonungi á hönd 1264. Með norsku krúnunni komst landið undir dönsk
    yfirráð 1380.

    2. JOURNEY
    We're flying across the sea
    Northern lights ahead
    Lands of ice, here we come
    The journey begins

    3. NORTHERN LIGHTS
    Instrumental. Clarinet performed by Maria João Tavares.

    4. HIGHLANDS
    I might as well be on the moon
    The end of time is here too soon
    The voice of the earth in the magma below

    My frozen breath, ice in my eyes
    Crystal wind blows from the skies
    Crystallised, my bones and my mind

    So far away, out here
    The horizon so cold
    Far from the world
    In this barren land of ice

    Two-thousand year old lichen grows
    On granite and basalt's stony toes
    The horizon spreads underneath the white sky

    There's no shelter for me to hide
    No burrow in this land so wide
    So I stand in the wind and the cold and the ice

    So far away, out here
    The horizon so cold
    Far from the world
    In this barren land of ice

    5. SAGA
    Iceland was uninhabited until AD 874, when the Norwegian king Ingólfur Arnarson settled in what is now known as Reykjavík. From then on until the end of the tenth century, the country was settled
    from southwest Norway and the Viking colonies of the British Isles. The events of the settlement are recounted
    in the Sagas.

    It is said that the earth's circle
    Which the human race inhabits
    Is torn across into many bays
    So that great seas run into the land

    Thus it's known wide and far
    That a great sea goes in
    At Narvesund, and up from there
    To the land of Jerusalem

    To Åsa's son Queen Skade bore
    Sæming, who dyed his shield in gore,
    The giant-queen of rock and snow,
    Who loves to dwell on earth below

    From this great sea
    A long bay stretches to the north
    Called the Black Sea
    Dividing the three parts of the earth

    North of this Sea lies Swithiod the Great
    Reckoned by some as big as Serkland

    The iron pine-tree's daughter, she
    Sprung from the rocks that rib the sea,
    To Odin bore full many a son,
    Heroes of many a battle won

    In Swithiod are many great domains
    And many races of men
    There are giants, and there are dwarfs
    Blue men, and creatures

    There are huge wild beasts,
    And dreadful dragons…

    6. GEOLOGY
    Instrumental

    7. SEISMIC WOMB
    I lie flat on the ground
    My ear against the belly of mother Earth
    Crystal echoes below the
    Fragile crust underneath my skin
    Listen to the shifting
    Layers of melting rock

    Magma runs in the veins of the land
    Breaking the horizon in two
    Lava to granite to endless sky
    Make this land eternally new

    Seismic womb, take me in
    Seismic womb, take me home
    Seismic womb, take me in
    Seismic womb, take me home

    8. FEARLESS
    We don't care whether the
    Earth shakes — sky breaks
    As long as the drinks don't fall from the table

    We don't mind the cold
    The blizzard and the storm
    But don't you forget to close the door behind you

    We don't care whether the
    Ocean rises
    As long as the drunks won't drown in the flood

    We don't care whether the
    Earth shakes — sky breaks
    As long as the drinks don't fall from the table

    9. FAREWELL
    The island lies far behind now
    Course is set for the sun
    The open ocean ahead now
    The journey home

    Has begun

    10. JOURNEY HOME / WHALES
    Instrumental

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