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The Alleviators
Floating in the WaterNur Ein XVII
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Floating in the Water
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The Alleviators

Entry from Floating in the Water in Nur Ein XVII.

Incorporate at least two different narratives from at least 500 years apart

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Floating In The Water
The Alleviators

(Narrative points: biblical story of Noah's Ark and a colony ship searching for a new habitable planet in the future)

Well it’s too late now
Guess we learned the hard way
There’s no easy way out
The rain falls down
And it won’t stop for days
Until the whole world drown

I wish I could say that we tried
But now we’re out of time

Two by two
We are floating in the water
If you ask him where we're going
He says anywhere but sin
Says we've gone too far
And we've displeased our father
Pray we haven't squandered grace
Wasted a second shot again

Well it’s over now
Before we were even born
A lesson too late to learn
Through our telescopes
Riding in on the airwaves
You can watch home burn

I wish I could say that we tried
We’ll get it right this time

Me and you
We are floating in the water
In a bed just like a coffin
Breathing water just like air
Burning hopes turned to embers
And the oceans got hotter
If the black holds a new home
Maybe we'll find some wisdom there

Through stars and seas
No going back now
Prayers and pleas
No going back now
Til we hit the ground
No going back
No going back
No going back

Two by two
We are floating in the water
We don’t know where we’re going
But it won’t be where we’ve been
Me and you
And our future sons and daughters
Pray we find a better way
Deserve a chance to start again

Reviews

3 posted notes

Future Boy

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so chill, so relaxing. i like the vibe and the washy reverb. doubled vocals is great, might be nice to have a couple moments of harmony (if they were there I've forgotten them already). would like the vocals a little more forward in the mix, but otherwise the mix sounds great.

glennny

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You have such governed dynamics! Who is the other half? This collab is sweet! There’s a bit of Appleseed Cast here again. Did I say that to you a while ago? (They’re opening for Sunny Day Real Estate in December!) I love the aesthetics of this song. I wish the chorus melody had more of a hook. Vocals are pretty throughout. Production is sweet! The concept is good. Cool song!

furrypedro

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A decent effort which doesn't raise the game from your previous entries. The vocals are probably the best bit. The arrangement is fine, but where I usually love your guitars I feel that the clean guitars here in particular feel a bit slapdash and ever-so-slightly unpleasant in the mix. I doubt it will be a huge problem this round, but when you do more picky, arpeggiated guitar lines I think they fit with your style better, and getting them to sit in the mix better will become more necessary as the competition progresses. The pace of this one is a little ponderous, but for the most part you pull it off with some nicely delivered melodies.

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