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[Bruce Klein]

Sniped From :: WTA Talk (wta-talk@yahoogroups.com) Enjoy - BJK

FROM: Hugh Bristic :: hughbristic@yahoo.com

Hey All!
I just wrote my first transhumanist song and wanted to share it with
you. It is called--what else--"Singularity", and uses a neat Nick
Drake tuning I just discovered and a frailing clawhammer rhythm style
in the right hand. You can download an mp3 of it at

I just finished writing it today and recorded it in my bathroom in
two takes with pretty cheap equipment, but I kinda like it and would
like to know what others think.

Here are the lyrics (they sound less hokey when sung--I hope):

Singularity

Maybe in a hundred years
Or maybe in an hour
Maybe like the Son of Man
Returning in Power

Maybe like a world of light
Coming in a moonlight's beam
Maybe an epiphany
Or maybe just a dream

Maybe the end of history
Is waiting there for me.

Singularity
Singularity


Forever in a day
The world in a grain of sand
And every possibility
Arises from your hand

Where time is never-ending joy
Where many are as one
Where will is everlasting love
And what you will is done

Where all you want to be
Becomes reality

Singularity
Singularity


Revelations come
And revelations go
Prediction's just another way
Of saying I don't know

But I see a world before me now
As true as life and heavenly
And if it isn't real today
Then we can make it be

A paradise for free
It all comes down to me

Singularity
Singularity


Peace,
Hugh

[Lazarus Long]

Very nice thank you. I enjoyed the first take. Good luck with your music and keep up the good work.

Again thanks for a refreshing interlude.

laz

[hughbristic]

Man! I'm on fire with this new tuning. I wrote another song today--
this one called "Neo." It's probably not as good as the last one
(even heavier on the hokey factor, since I'm trying to be a little
too cute), but it has a nice hook and is relatively zippy. I've put
it on a different server, since the commercial web host I use stinks
and people were waiting an unneccesarily long time to download the
small mp3 file. The URL for Neo is
. I moved Singularity
there too. It is at
. If you
couldn't stand the wait before, try again.

Here are the lyrics for Neo:

Neo

You cannot take a monkey for a ride on a plane
And not expect the monkey not to ever complain
Cause a monkey from the jungle wasn't born to fly
But he'll get there by and by

Hey ho
Neo

After living in a box you get to calling it home
A prisoner in a cage cannot tell you where to roam
The safety of our chains is a comfortable lie
But we'll break them by and by


The world is all a jumble where you stumble to the grave
Before you drown in the ocean better learn to ride the wave
Got to stop the clock before its time for you to die
Cause the end comes by and by

Hey ho
Neo

Peace,
Hugh

[hughbristic]

Hey all,

I actually have a web page http://www.iddl.vt.e...rfentres/songs/ now where the lyrics and links to my songs can be accessed as I write them. It a very quick and dirty page, but those who like what I've done so far can check it from time to time to see if I've added anything new. I hope to actually release a professionally engineered CD by September of this year tentatively titled "Apotheosis" (though I've also been considering the titles "Measureless Man" and "Hymns for the New Man").

Speaking of hymns, like others before me, I've taken a stab at rewriting the lyrics to Amazing Grace. My version is called Amazing Place. I don't have a recording yet (still working on the arrangement), but here are the lyrics:

AMAZING PLACE
(after John Newton's Amazing Grace)

Amazing place, this earth of mine--
A paradise for me.
Unending grace is yours to find
However lost you be.

Twas death that taught my heart to fear.
My fears aren't yet relieved.
But I will live each moment here
As an eternity.

Let toils and snares and dangers come.
I've dealt with them thus far.
With patience, hope and faith in man
I’ll take them as they are.

How sweet the waves upon the sound
Whose rushing fills the ear--
The gentle whispers of the the world
That drive away my fear.

I needn't bear my cross alone;
My brother walks with me.
We work to build a heaven here,
Where every soul is free.

When we've been here ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing life’s praise
Than when we'd first begun.

Peace,
Hugh

Edited by hughbristic, 14 April 2003 - 10:58 PM.

[bacopa]

To walk up a mountain to buy some more time
wishing and hopeing to find a place of mine
where time stands still and people seldom die
instead we wait for someone else to cry

One day we'll find a way to stop time in such a way
that no one will need to worry that it could be their last day

insecurity sets in and I'm destined to lose
This Darwinian world I did not choose
Humanities race to a longer life
the coldness of nature cuts like a knife

I'm gonna make it I know this now
for if I don't I'll have given in somehow

(chorus)

so freeze my ass in a Cryo lab
at least I'll be away from my mom's who nags
My body turns to ice as I hope in every way
that when I'm thawed out I'm aware of this new day!

I hope they don't mistreat me and leave me in the ice
and if they do thaw me out a working brain might be nice!

but if it doesn't work at least I gave it a shot
hey I'm not in the ground while i rot rot rot!
in this battle to stay alive that I've fought since I was young
is fruitless in less it ends with a pun!

alright that sucked....sorry

[bacopa]

All your songs were really good I'm impressed to be among such renaiannce geeks! Just kidding