Far Below

About the song

This is one of those songs that came on me like I was having an out of body experience - in subject's body. Very emotional. Really scary. I remember crying and falling to the floor with a yellow pad and pencil and wrote the song word for word as I saw it play out in front of me.- it really felt like I was there.

A couple of months later I was working on a first draft in the editing room with the headphones on at the new boffostudio.com about 3:00 am - I thought how cool it would be to have bag pipes playing during the bridge, but I was really tired. I hit the wall and was going for some need rack time. When I got up to the bed room I could hear music, so I marched back down stairs thinking I had left something on. All the gear was off in editing and in the control room. So I went back up to brush my teeth - and there it was again - music playing. I thought maybe the dude next door left his car radio on - checked - nothing. Then I opened the bathroom window - poked my head out - it was pouring buckets - and out side I could clearly hear music coming from the out there in the 32 acre park which sits next to the studio... So I got dressed again, got the camera and headed outtside.

I put the camcorder in a plastic bag, good thing too because I slipped and slid down the hill . Earlier that day the park was flooded. As I got up I looked down the length and could see 3 figures standing in the rain around the park's only picnic table - one of them was playing the bag pipes! Yup - pouring rain - 3:15 AM. I could not believe my eyes but it was real. I got right over there and a very pretty woman with strawberry blonde hair addressed me first saying "Hi Rick". I had never seen her before, I wondered who she was. Along side her was a guy with a great dread thing going on - he had a trumpet, but was not playing. The bag piper was playing Amazing Grace - and without hesitation I asked if I could record him playing for the song. He said "yes." Sometimes Devine massagers are in the park at 3:20 AM you've just got to put your paints on to go see and hear it.

From the Radiate CD pages on the original RickDenzien.com.

Lyrics

Source: Radiate (Bandcamp). Also on: Radiate CD (original RickDenzien.com lyric page).

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