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Red Planet
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Is there life on Earth?
prog progressive rock
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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.
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Genre
Rock • Progressive Rock
Charts
Peak #17
Peak in subgenre #4
Author
Steve Smith
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Steve Smith
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September 01, 2020
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MP3 5.7 MB • 160 kbps • 5:00
Story behind the song
Written and recorded especially for the Clickers Club Clickurious challenge, September 2020. As we launch several missions to Mars, in search of Life, I wondered how many other red planets we'd exhausted over the aeons..... Always a tricky thing with these power ballads - you've no idea how hard it is to resist the key change. But I did it - it may sound like there is one, but there isn't.
Lyrics
We dreamed of a different land A far fabled place Ancestral homeworld A tiny light across space With ice-caps and glaciers Wide oceans blue Tales told for millennia Could they be true? Well I rode the red desert Through the valleys of ash Searching for evidence Of life before the flash They told us it never happened It always was thus Just science fiction What happened to us Dreamer, awake! Time to make haste O dreamer, awake Time to waste 1000 generations To regain starflight We had to overcome gravity And subjugate time Then we took to the heavens In our galleons of desire Falling from distant virgin skies Like angelical fire Dreamer, awake! Time to make haste O dreamer, awake Time to lay waste This was our last card, our last chance to survive, Last new beginning, last ray of life. Achieved the impossible with this distance flown: Conquered all nature, except for our own We didn't find glaciers or wide oceans blue, Just another red world - one we once knew. This was our desolation from aeons before - We'd found every last planet and ruined them all Dreamer, awake! Time to make haste O dreamer, awake No time to waste
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DRUMNJON
Sep 23, 2020
IS THERE LIFE ON EARTH? DREAMER AWAKE!! A NEW FAVORITE FOR SURE :):):)
AlexisPatrick
Sep 16, 2020
Great vocals and lyrics. Beautiful song complete. Fabulous Guitar work.
Alan L Cole
Sep 13, 2020
Great to hear your awesome vocals and guitar work Steve. Sweet keys and arrangement too!
DRUMNJON
Sep 07, 2020
Oh man, Another favorite from you Seth. You remind me so much of Peter Gabriel! I love this creation!!! Keep it Rockin brother!! :)
rodrica
Sep 06, 2020
Wow...powerful, emotionally and musically. Brilliant arrangement, top notch production. Stunningly good song.
MikeBennett
Sep 06, 2020
I knew this would be good but this is even better than good - nice!!!
Ken Sacco
Sep 05, 2020
This is great!
MichaelDuran
Sep 05, 2020
Complex in it's simplicity.. it just flows from lift to drop without a hitch. NICE vibe with some sweet layering of melody and counterpoint, great work Steve!
soundsbyramolly
Sep 05, 2020
Wow, Wow, Wow, this is crazy good, I love your work, I feel like I am at a Billy Joel concert!
KeithMitchell
Sep 05, 2020
AWESOME track from the 1st note to the end. Wow Clickurious has some amazing talent. Need to get there myself!
d.bill
Sep 05, 2020
This is soooooo ridiculously good. Like Matt I've been absent too long, and this is a great reminder of the talents of the Clickers. Wow!
Oddger
Sep 05, 2020
It is no secret, that I am a huge fan, Steve! I have been missing your songs, that always hit me right in the gut. This one is no exception. Great lyrics and your voice has this tone of suppressed pain, that makes one believe every word you sing. Add to that great musical skills and great ideas.. What can I say? Another favourite for sure!
Ridiculousdream
Sep 05, 2020
Very cool and well produced! Amazing submission for the Planet Clickurious!
relative rabbit
Sep 02, 2020
Nice to hear a new Smivets tune! I've been away from SC too long. great song and performance!
Bob Forbes
Sep 02, 2020
Great CC challenge submission Steve - Rock with a twist of sci-fi.