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Rising Tides

from THE WORLD NOW by Eli Litwin

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I knew I wanted each subsequent song to focus on one particular thing that’s wrong with our country and/or the world. The final lyric in track 2, “Foes of Mother Earth, leave this land,” gave me an easy jumping off point for the next song, “Rising Tides.” Of all the horrible things going on right now, climate change is by far the most concerning and frightening, because the survival of human civilization is at stake. Younger generations can grown up to create a more progressive, accepting world, and laws can change. But if the world food supply diminishes and large groups of people are being displaced by rising sea levels, wildfires, and temperatures that make many parts of the world more and more uninhabitable, what good is any other progress?

I had been compiling a list of musical ideas for a while at that point; various approaches that would serve as jumping off points. For the main percussion layer in “Rising Tides,” I programmed a syncopated synth bass line (that I knew would probably change later), and then improvised jazz fusion-y beats on bass, snare and hi-hat along with it at an easy 90 bpm. I tightened the snare and recorded a second snare track, intending to pan the two snares hard left and right. Then I time-warped the track double speed, to 180 bpm, and started writing the song.

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Rising tides
Melting ice
Tears in eyes
What have we done?

Oil barons
With their greed filled minds
No concern for the planet or our children
I wish they all would just die

Oceans rise
Wildfires burn
Who to blame
For climate change?

Oil barons
With their blackened souls
No concern about life on this planet
Just what their pockets hold

Why must we destroy our home?
It can’t go on like this much more
I cry for what I fear is to become of Earth when I am gone

Open up your hearts
Open up your souls
Wash away all greed
Heal this Earth for our children
Don’t make them pay for your mistakes

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from THE WORLD NOW, released December 18, 2018
Guitar solo - Jason Herrmann

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Eli Litwin Northampton, Massachusetts

Multi-instrumentalist and teacher. Various projects have released albums on Relapse Records, Metal Blade Records, Tzadik, Party Smasher Inc, High Two, and ugEXPLODE. Check recommendations below for links to some of these other projects.

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