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Tomorrow's Path
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Piano ballad with some pretty pan flutes, regarding my mission oriented life with my first wife. Lyrics and song story below.
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Primary Site for Frederick's Rock Fusion Music & Philosophy
Primary site for Frederick's rock fusion incorporating elements of rock, electronic, folk, symphonic, world, blues, jazz, latin, and country influences, with lyrics based upon personal experience, informed spiritual humanitarianism, and political/religious independence. F. J. Serafim - Vocals, Electric/Acoustic/Synth Guitars, Synthesizers, Pianos, Bass & Production Hi Frederick, I liked the lyrical concept, the musical arrangements, musicianship and vocals... ....you are on the right track with your songwriting. Wishing you success with your music, Mike (Moody Blues co-founder Mike Pinder, 2018 R&R Hall of Famers) Song order is based upon technical considerations such as recency of track upload and not any intended sonic or creative merit. Playlists and albums are the more efficient method of exploring this site. Licensing only upon direct contact with artist.
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Genre
Rock • Folk Rock
Peak in subgenre #21
Author
Frederick Serafim
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Frederick Serafim 1984
Uploaded
February 08, 2025
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MP3 11.2 MB • 320 kbps • 4:53
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WAV 49.2 MB
Story behind the song
The song recounts our struggles organizing and maintaining a fairly successful self-help psychiatric reform coalition, during a period when institutional psychiatric abuse was rampant, and community care and understanding sadly lacking. From the album tribute to my 2nd favourite archetypal namesake, European Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194-1250) "Stupor Mundi" (Wonder of the World), - the double excommunicated, early renaissance catalyst, who was vilified for his peacefully negotiated reclamation of Jerusalem, and attempts at Christian reform. Orphaned as a child and raised by tutors, the likelihood of his murder was at least as great as his coronation as King of Sicily, let alone Emperor of the greater part of Europe. His other accomplishments included such things as his employment of the merchant / mathematician Fibonacci, in order to replace clumsy Roman numerals with the first institutional establishment of our Indo-Arabic numerals in Europe; his founding of the first secular European university ( and 3rd overall ); the first use of proof-based empirical scientific logic in Europe; his translations of the lost Greek and Roman classical texts from the only remaining Arabic source; the writing of the first voluntary state Constitution shortly after the involuntary signing of Magna Carta; his selection of an inter-ethnic court and opposition to the persecution of Jews, and much more. Not much bloodshed though, and so not so well remembered. Also, much of what is known about him was written by his enemies, and therefore requires some reading between the lines in order to peer through his enigmatic mystique. Apparently, he was also a musician with a strong predilection for trumpet fanfares, which I have employed in trying to create this musical representation of him. In 2004, while visiting Italy, through chance encounter I was invited to speak to a gathering at Frederick's tomb, thus sealing my affinity for the monarch. Stupor Mundi is often confused with the 18th century Frederick II "The Great", who attempted a similar sort of progressive reign, but with far more expensive and destructive militancy... not a big fan. He is also sometimes confused with his grandfather, Frederick I Barbarossa. However, being an orphan raised by tutors moulded him into a much different creature than either of these two.
Lyrics
When the storm clouds gathered on Good Friday And nothing in life seemed to be going my way And I was ready to lay my spirit in an early grave A trial by tribulation deemed me saved There comes a time when the whole truth must be spoken When it's plain how love's meaning's completely broken And two souls must stand together threatened in the night No matter what you can't avoid the fight Hot and dusty highway's we've travelled With life's futile paradox unravelled And we can see no end in sight but faith is what we share That the road tomorrow be straight and fair May tomorrow be a revelation unto me To keep it burning and keep 'em turning Travelling down the days of tomorrow's path...
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