Shar’elokh
Jun/090
oh why….why?
Shar was a shooting star
made an impression both near and far
but soon… the times they changed
Shar’elokh… there was something about Shar
unusual (unusual)
Shar’elokh… there was something about Shar
so peculiar
intergalactic colonization
ohh this damned nation
built on hopes and dreams
yet it seems
yet it seems to be broken apart (broken apart)
the difference between man and a beast is not…
so quantum!
look deep into my eyes and tell me what you see
Shar’elokh… there was something about Shar
unusual (unusual)
Shar’elokh… there was something about Shar
so peculiar
but like the brightest of stars
Shar burn out before too long
soon bad luck cast upon us
death befall
in the starlit sky
all serpents cry
asking reasons why
everything we care about withers and dies
Shar’elokh… there was something about Shar
unusual (unusual)
Shar’elokh… there was something about Shar
so peculiar
Hello world!
Jun/090
To celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009,Voice of a Soul focuses on releasing solely astronomy-themed music.
Astronomy has inspired composers since the dawn of times, but mostly for individual works only (though there are exceptions to this rule such as Rush and Samael). Some examples from popular music scene would be Pink Floyd’s Shine on You Crazy Diamond (illustrates the self-destructive fading of Syd Barret to the fading of a low-mass star like the Sun into a white dwarf), Queen’s ’39 (about the twin paradox in relativity), as well as Rush’s Natural Science (poetic illustration about the evolution of life meshed together with moral injunctions) and Cygnus X-1 (an attempt to illustrate the discovery of the first stellar-mass black hole both by poetical and musical terms). What most people don’t know, Queen’s guitarist Brian May is actually a qualified astronomer which explains the use of astronomy as an inspiration.