"Euridyce" genre: Folk
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	This song is a dramatic monologue set to music. The story is taken from the Greek legend of Orpheus and Euridyce, though the perspective and the lyrics are original material. The song begins and ends as a piano ballad, and follows the wide range of emotions that I imagine Orpheus would feel as the story plays out.
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	Story Behind the Song Like all of the music on the Storybook CD, this song is very emotional for me personally, as there is are a lot of parellels between Orpheus' story and my own. The short version of the story is this: Euridyce is killed by a poisonous snake and sent to the underworld. Orpheus, a gifted musician, travels to the underworld attempting to persude the deities there to release his beloved wife. He plays the lyre so beautifully for them that they agree to let her go, with the one condition that he not look back at her until they have reached the overworld again. Just as they are about to reach their destination, Orpheus looks back at her, and she is borne away. It's a powerful story that makes a person go, "Orpheus, what were you thinking!" When I heard the story, I was inspired to write a song, but I actually wrote several different songs with entirely different melodies and lyrics (none of which were very good) before I finally settled on this one. Lyrics The journey may be long, the journey may be dark The path beset with dangers all along the way But every step I take, and every bridge I cross Is one less step between us, one less lonely day And even though the hand of death Has stretched itself to steal away our love To steal our love Through the flood and through the tempest Through bitter cold and darkness I will come I will come I will sing my songs, and declare my love I will bring you back to the world above Euridyce So here beneath the earth, and veiled within the dark I stand before the ones who will decide our fate So here I’ll sing my songs, and here I’ll play the strings And songs of love will melt these walls of death and hate La la la la … I will sing my songs, and declare my love ‘Til you find release to the world above Euridyce I can’t believe my ears, I can’t believe my eyes But I’m on the journey back, and you are following behind And if I can but wait to look upon your face Then nothing more will come between us ‘til the end of days And if I hear your voice behind me As we make our journey to the light, to the light Hope of love in days to come Will speed us on our way towards the sky, to the sky I can’t hear your footsteps, or hear your song In my heart I fear that you are gone Euridyce I can’t help but look back, I can’t help but look back I can’t help but look back To see if you’re still following behind Euridyce The rest of my life, the rest of my life The rest of my life, I will love you Euridyce

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