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Berkeley Social Scene
Floating in the WaterNur Ein XVII
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Floating in the Water
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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
Berkeley Social Scene

Lying in a basket among the reeds
Saved by love and noble deeds
Parting the sea to flee our foes
And watch them drown as we go

We don’t know our destiny
We didn’t ask for this to come to be

So many bodies floating in the water
A righteous people saved from a slaughter
The trauma of all their sons and daughters
With so many bodies floating in the water

Drifting lazily on the Dead Sea
I’m the culmination of history
Reading The Stand to pass the time
So much horror without reason or rhyme

We don’t know our destiny
We didn’t ask for this to come to be

So many bodies floating in the water
A righteous people saved from a slaughter
The trauma of all their sons and daughters
With so many bodies floating in the water

Thousands of years of this dirt in this town
Thousands of years of this blood flowing down

We don’t know our destiny
We didn’t ask for this to come to be

So many bodies floating in the water
A righteous people saved from a slaughter
The trauma of all their sons and daughters
With so many bodies floating in the water

Reviews

3 posted notes

Future Boy

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lyrics on this are great. production is tight, y'all know what you are doing. seems like a perfectly cromulent pop-punk song, which is not a genre I'm super fond of, so I don't have much of an emotional response to it. i'm like yeah i can bop my head to this, but that's about it. nothing surprises me about this.

glennny

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This is one of my projects. This round Ken took production duties (that’s why it sounds amazing). Ken wrote the song. We got Geech on vocals, glennny on rhythm guitar and solo, and Sam on rhythm guitar and bass. Ken did the drums and keys. This song is very fun to play. I love it!

furrypedro

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The idea of a BC/AD narrative was originally mooted for this challenge and I vetoed it on the basis there would be loads of songs about the ancient Egyptians. So you've tripped the QI obvious answer buzzer which warrants an eye-roll from me. This is tight and well produced, but in spite of it's upbeat pace it feels languid and there's no part of the song which gets its hooks into my brain. There's nothing wrong with it at all. Yet I am uninspired.

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