"Cry of the Centuries" genre: Instrumental Rock
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	This song provides a theme to be woven into songs whose subject matter covers the last millennia, a reminder of the ever constant and recurring pain that is the inevitable companion to our development.
	CD: Second Millennium   Label: soon Credits: Lyrics and music composed by Bill McClarty, who also did the vocals. 5 string bass played by Billy Herb Bob, Sweet William on guitar, Wild Willy on drums and Herby Bob on keyboards. Recordings were done at Billy Joy's Digital Studios in Olympia Washington, who also did the engineering and mixing.
	Story Behind the Song This song is the first step on my continuing journey that started 3+ years ago. It's a journey that was begun with a fresh committment to music, one I had put off for years. It could be that the catharsis from pain and the emotional healing music has always given me, coupled with the screaming need for it I suffered during my third and final divorce was causing me had an influence on the timing. It gave me a way to have some good come out of bad. This song is the beginning of a very ambitious project of creating a "theme" album in the tradition of the Moody Blues, or the Alan Parsons Project. The year 2000 was rapidly approaching, which provided me the idea to peruse the last 1000 years of Western Civilization and choose several people, places or events that had a major impact on forming the world as we know it. Once selected, the challenge was to create lyrics for them that have a modern day counterpart with which they could be identified. This was the first of the songs that I wrote as I made my transition from acoustic to electric guitars. In retrospect, I can't begin to recall how many takes this relatively simple song required. Bass and guitars were digitally recorded on my computer. Keyboards, drums and other effects were painstakingly created with a midi keyboard. Between getting used to new software, recording, mixing and extending myself musically way beyond anthing I'd done before, this song was took a Herculean and alot of work. But it was a work of love.

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