"Metropolis I (new Dawn)" genre: Progressive Electronica
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	The beginning of the Metropolis "cycle". Tells the story of man through one of his greatest creations, The City. "Metropolis I" cover the beginning of man till the mid 1960's.
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	Story Behind the Song "Metropolis I" starts out at the dawn of man's time. Starting with simple ambient sounds and building up from there. The opening "melody" represents the innocent "primitive" man. The simple rhythms represent the building of man's first real creation, the "City", from the simple chipping of stone, to the more complex machines man has used. The voices are the great minds of the western world. Some are twisted (like Hitler, Stalin) some are truly great (Martin Luther King, FDR, etc) all these voices build a collage of sound which shows the progress of man... This build goes until the "I have a dream" quote which brings us to a "Funeral" section, the "Boom" is the shot that kills Dr King and the echo is the impact it has on the City as it is both, "The shot heard round the world" and the event is permanently etched into the peoples memory. This section builds to a "wash of sorrow" that engulfs the sound to show the impact of the Riots on the inner cities and the despair of the society as a whole. At the end we hear the original melody rise up out of the "wash" to still show the spirit of man, however the notes are tainted by the wash of sorrow, for ever changed as man leaves his innocence behind him. Lyrics And we rose from the spring of the earth and built our homes in the rays of the sun And we build walls and began to wonder How upon this great world we had come And we built a Metropolis and raised to the Sky...

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