Gone and vanished

from Fading Purple Sky by Nathan Fivecoate

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I think I've had dreams like this. Or sort of like this. Outside of the eagerness to explore to see if there's anything or anyone else around, they're not the most fun. The music for this song was borne out of two superimposed harmonic series (C to G being one, G to D being the second superimposed over the first) that begins (and ends) the song. That, and the circle of fifths. The stone-coldness of perfect fifths perfectly fits with the stone-coldness of waking up and realizing you're in a place and/or time where you could well be blind or dead.

lyrics

I woke up sometime ago
I don't remember where I was
or what I did or if I did anything

I look left I look right
I look up and I look down
I look forward and I see nothing

I'm still here but everything else is not
I'm wondering if I've reached the other side
Did I die or did everyone else?
'Cause everything else is gone and vanished

Everything around me is one color
but which one I do not know
is it white is it black is it gray?

I don't see water I don't see land
I don't see air I don't see space
What did I do to lose everything?

I'm still here but everything else is not
I'm wondering if I've reached the other side
Did I die or did everyone else?
'Cause everything else is gone and vanished

Sometime last night something must've happened
but my memory is all gone
like a hard drive that's been erased by tech support

Now I'm out here confused and lost
I can't hear or see or smell
but I guess it's what happens at the end of time

I'm still here but everything else is not
This must be the other side
I mean, did I die or did everyone else?
'Cause everything else is gone and vanished

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from Fading Purple Sky, released November 5, 2010

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