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Garden Of The Forking Paths

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by	Anchor Méjans
Featuring	J. Lang
length	5:09
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Everybody knows that J. Lang is the master of ‘groove’….
And it’s always a pleasure to be allowed to work with him in collaboration.
Offered here is another in our song-cycle from the “Jeeves & Wooster visit Hip-Hop Lounge-Land” series.
Original lyrics take a quizzical look at the psychological oppositions which spring up around Life’s vicissitudes and the passages of light and darkness that we all share.
As always it’s great fun to sing lyrics to a musical backing that I may not have discovered alone. Mr. Lang always stretches my boundaries…and I also want to thank him for the excellent production and mixing of this song which are sustained by his magic touch.

Lyrics:
There’s a dark side to each story
And a side of the light
There’s a path that leads to glory
And a road of strife

(dark light
Day night
Day night
Dark light)

Gather love in shinning moments
Lay your tears out stone cold
Time is short so seize the moment
this is what we’re told…

such clichés may leaves us dangling
on the edge of platitudes
coloring this or that decision
swinging from our moods

each and every person living
has a height and depth
saint and sinner both encompass
our first and last breath

Spoken part:
(I unfolded from sleep as if I were a flower…
Mysteriously opening to its day.
I smelled the freshly laundered sheets and
Saw in dim shafts of light tiny motes of dust,
Encircling miniature galaxies.
I sensed you, though we did not embrace, or even touch.
I heard the rhythm of your breathing riding a distant morning train whistle…
And knew that I had arrived
As each living man must
To every morning of the world.)

such clichés may leaves us dangling
on the edge of platitudes
coloring this or that decision
swinging from our moods