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[unrealcorvus]

ghosts and the river

by unreal corvus

man, i wish i could leave here where the fuck would i go? spent most of my life here this town's all i know the streets and the sidewalks wandered since i was young are all crowded with ghosts now their names ash on my tongue

don't see the changes day to day how did the years just slip away? no place could ever feel the same i hear the river call my name all the kids i grew up with wonder where they have gone guess they're all dead or scattered somehow i lingered on left for all sorts of reasons grass is greener it seems blown over the night sky on the winds of their dreams

don't see the changes day to day how did the years just slip away? no place could ever feel the same i hear the river call my name

i remember always running i remember having dreams river cabin summers the wimahl when she gleams wake up in that old house with a future through the door but that house is gone now there's no future here any more

yeah i wish i could leave here my ghosts won't let me leave all the friends that i've buried hopes and loves that i grieve all the stories and grave sites family roots in this ground keep my soul firmly anchored keep me hanging around

i linger on from day to day endure the years that slip away once i ran here but now i'm lame the ghosts and the river call my name

#unreal corvus music #unreal corvus lyrics #original lyrics #original song #songwriting #song lyrics #singer songwriter #i made this

[unrealcorvusmusic]

ghosts and the river

by unreal corvus (chords below lyrics)

man, i wish i could leave here where the fuck would i go? spent most of my life here this town's all i know the streets and the sidewalks wandered since i was young are all crowded with ghosts now their names ash on my tongue

don't see the changes day to day how did the years just slip away? no place could ever feel the same i hear the river call my name all the kids i grew up with wonder where they have gone guess they're all dead or scattered somehow i lingered on left for all sorts of reasons grass is greener it seems blown over the night sky on the winds of their dreams

don't see the changes day to day how did the years just slip away? no place could ever feel the same i hear the river call my name

i remember always running i remember having dreams river cabin summers the wimahl when she gleams wake up in that old house with a future through the door but that house is gone now there's no future here any more

yeah i wish i could leave here my ghosts won't let me leave all the friends that i've buried hopes and loves that i grieve all the stories and grave sites family roots in this ground keep my soul firmly anchored keep me hanging around

i linger on from day to day endure the years that slip away once i ran here but now i'm lame the ghosts and the river call my name

ghosts and the river (chords)

by unreal corvus

Em G (x2)

Em G man, i wish i could leave here Em G where the fuck would i go? Em G spent most of my life here Em G this town's all i know Em G the streets and the sidewalks Em G wandered since i was young Em G are all crowded with ghosts now Em G their names ash on my tongue

C D Em don't see the changes day to day C D Em how did the years just slip away? C D Em no place else could feel the same C D Em i hear the river call my name

Em G all the kids i grew up with Em G wonder where they have gone Em G guess they're all dead or scattered Em G somehow i lingered on Em G left for all sorts of reasons Em G grass is greener it seems Em G blown all over the night sky Em G on the winds of their dreams

C D Em don't see the changes day to day C D Em how did the years just slip away? C D Em no place else could feel the same C D Em i hear the river call my name

D i remember always running C i remember having dreams D river cabin summers C the wimahl when she gleams D wake up in that old house C with a future through the door D but that house is gone now C there's no future here Em any more

Em G yeah i wish i could leave here Em G my ghosts won't let me leave Em G all the friends that i've buried Em G hopes and loves that i grieve Em G all the stories and grave sites Em G family roots in this ground Em G keep my soul firmly anchored Em G keep me hanging around C D Em i linger on from day to day C D Em endure the years that slip away C D Em once i ran here but now i'm lame C D Em ghosts and the river call my name

#unreal corvus music #original music #original song #chords #original lyrics #singer songwriter #folk music #astoria oregon #songwriting #music #sad old white guy with a guitar #tenor guitar

[hunterartemis]

Fantastic Beasts Characters As Classical Pieces

What if you could describe the characters of Fantastic Beasts with one Classical Piece? 

Newt Scamander: “American”-Allegro Ma Non Troppo by Antonín Dvořák: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JocDYVUb4kE

This particular tune was composed when Dvorak was abroad in America, working for a conservatory. ‘The American Quartet’ was composed during Dvorak’s stay in Spillville, Iowa, which he composed with great inspirations from contemporary Africa-American melodies, Native American tunes and even a songbird called “the red eyed vireo” that kept pestering him while he was composing. This reminds me of Newt’s worldwide voyages and him working on his book on his journey, inspired by people and magical beasts he sees. The piece speaks with a joy of seeing something new, the joys of travelling, meeting and being influenced by new people which is the essence of Newt’s character. 

Porpentina Goldstein: La Campanella, Grandes études de Paganini, by Franz Liszt. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Dvg2MxQn8

“La Campanella” or “The little bell” is called one of the difficult, most intricate piece on the piano to play. However, in it’s trilling and high notes it exudes an elegance that is both delicate, intimidating and fast. Tina Goldstein is characterized as a short fused level-headed personality. She was described as being "grounded."She was naturally ambitious, and had a desire to stand up for what was right. Her femininity is underrated, especially when she is placed beside Leta or Queenie. However, her femininity is most beautifully appreciated by Newt: the golden traces of her seen through the tracking spell, her emotional expressions when she was bidding Newt goodbye, her pouting at Newt’s “engagement”, all this highlight her unique femininity. This is what the La Campanella will capture.

Queenie Goldstein : Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, By Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV1qLYukTH8

From the moment Queenie entered the screen she filled my mind with a mystrey and alarm. She was almost ethereal and unreal sometimes and it is sometimes hard to tell what she is thinking when she is smiling and reading about you. That creepy-ethereal sweetness is evoked by the piece ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’. Feminine yet intimidating, this piece reminds me of Queenie. The character is both popular as a good and benevolent figure, also as a horror figure. ‘Sugar Plum’ is not a real fruit, but candied plum, and what she is seen making on screen for the first time? Strudel. 

 Jacob Kowalski: Miroirs (mvt: IV "Alborada del gracioso") by Maurice Ravel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKDG7w2S9c

Ravel’s ‘Miroir’ is a five-movement suite for solo piano written by French composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905. It was dedicated to his artist friends in Les Apaches (”hooligans”), who identified themselves as Avant-garde, and artistic outcast. Jacob as a non-magic folk, wants to grow as a person: from a dull employee of a canning factory to an artist of baking. From a wizard’s perspective he is a “hooligan”, in a sense: he is a no-maj who must be excluded. He is an outcast, but he celebrates it, a spirit that Ravel captures in the ‘Miroir’. The fourth movement Alborada del gracioso is called “The Jester’s Aubade” or the ‘Morning Love song of a Clown’. An Aubade laments on the lovers separating at daybreak. It can also be identified with his unfortunate separation with Queenie.

Niffler: Danse Boheme by Georges Bizet, Carmen:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1dquJE7mQ

Gypsies were known to nick things in the past, and they are very mischievous and caused troubles for other non-gypsies. These are also the characteristics of niffler. They are troublemakers, and they pursue after shiny objects and treasures and pinches them for their own fun. Bizet’s Danse Boheme starts with light woodwinds with small movements which later becomes grands with frequent tremolo and hectic and fast tunes on the strings. This reminds me of the niffler’s small sneaky antics and how they usually get out of hand and makes things out of control.

Pickett:  Dance of the Reed Flutes, by Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker suit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94BdxnheeM

Also known as the Marzipan song, the Reed-Flute song is a piece predominated by wind instruments. The piece also reminds be of birds chirping and woodland, which is considered as the seat of the Bowtruckles. The piece is very cheerful and innocent, like the bowtruckle and has a hint of mischief. 

Theseus Scamander: Violin Concerto in D Major, Allegro Moderato, By Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNmgDEUdKlw (for convenience skip to timestamp 6:17)

Tchaikovsky composed it in  Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. The concerto was swiftly composed and Tchaikovsky wouldn’t be able to complete it without the help of his composing pupil Iosif Kotek. However Kotek later refuses to play the concerto, believing that it would damage his reputation, which caused a breach between him and his tutor. Theseus is plagued too, by the death of his fiancee, Leta Lestrange, and finds consolation by his younger brother Newt’s support. The on-and-off relationship between him and Newt reminds me of Kotek and Tchaikovsky(despite the fact that the latter two had some homosexual tension between them). The overall melody is elegant yet majestic, tender but firm and noble with intricate notes, which all together sums up Theseus’ character and magical abilities. And let’s not forget his worldwide popularity and how this concerto (despite its failures in the initial receptions) rose to the position as one of the four greatest violin concertos in the world.

Seraphina Piquery: Bolero, Maurice Ravel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r30D3SW4OVw

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel. This piece begins with a soft beating of snare drums and repeats the same melody over and over again, but each time it includes a different instrument and gradually becomes grand. The melody includes the dynamics of every possible instruments in the orchestra. Seraphina is a martial heroine and an apt leader who utilities every wizard’s power in the ministry, that makes her power formidable. The meticulously crafted melody also expresses Seraphina’s calculating nature.

Albus Dumbledore: Erlkönig By Franz Schubert.(instrumental by David Garrett) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uWr0p90EQ 

Schubert’s Erlkonig is an aria that uses the lyrics from Goethe’s poem from the same name. Erlkonig or the “Elf King” is about a father and son riding through the forest in the night. The boy hears whispers and sees the trainy veil of the Elf King floating through the air, who whispers to follow him. However the father sees nothing. When the duo reach the farm, the boy is found dead. This symbolizes that man is always flying away from death, but no matter how hard he tries death will get to him at the end. Dumbledore is a private person who is trying his hard to conceal and outrun his past, but it always gets tangled in the end. 

Gellert Grindlewald:  Don Giovanni! A cenar teco , by Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, Opera : Don Giovanni. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZNyQNzM7I

In the Opera, the Commendator was an old man, Killed by Don Giovanni, who wished to win the old man’s daughter Dona Ana. Thus he came back as a spirit to drag Don Giovanni in hell. It is called one of the scariest songs by Mozart, and the process in while Commendator drew Don Giovanni into hell with fire and a legion of Demons reminds me of Grindelwald conquering his enemies and destroying them completely. Both of the characters were hateful, vengeful and absolutist, although Grindelwald cannot be justified like the Commendator, who rage was justified (because his daughter was snatched by a sketchy playboy). However, Grindelwald must think he is right and have thought about muggles like that!!

Credence Barebone: Swan Lake Op 20 introduction By Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Ballet: Swan Lake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhYnHXpDyUI

Credence strongly reminds me of the Odette/Odille Complex from Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Swan Lake. The ballet ends with a pessimistic note, in the sense that the pure and virginal white swan dies and the seductive and evil black swan wins. Up till the end of the Second Franchise, we saw that Grindelwald was able to draw Credence towards him, and I believe Rowling is aiming for a classic pathetic end for Credence, as “the innocent that gone bad” collateral. Ominous, haunting, breathtaking and beautiful, the opening of Swan Lake portrays the ravishment of Odette by an evil magician Rothbart. Credence has been manhandled by his adoptive mother and emotionally abused by Grindelwald and his journey from innocent to a dark entity is surely very Swan-Lake like. 

Leta Lestrange: Declaration of Love by Alfred Schnittke, A Fairytale of Wandering :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAVVXff_4BM

Originally composed for the soviet dark fantasy film A Story of Voyage (1983), Declaration of Love has been getting the position of classical music. The story of the film traces the journey of two orphan children, brother and sister separated at birth. However when they two meet in the adulthood the brother has become evil and violent. Although they reach a happy ending, but their encounter is as charged as Leta-Mustafa (who is Leta’s half brother from the same mother) encounter. It could also possibly indicate Leta’s encounter with Credence who was almost professed as Corvus Lestrange. The piece is haunting, beautiful and Schnittke’s signature discords lurking about throughout the symphony makes the piece perfect for Leta.

Nicolas Flamel : Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity, By Gustav Holst, The Planets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo

Flamel was a strong positive force in the film ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’. Unlike Dumbledore, who is more ‘hovering over and watching’ rather than participating in action (except in rare cases), Flamel’s presence and entrance fills the people around him with hope. Holst’s ‘Jupiter’ has a similar effect. In Indian Astrology ‘Jupiter’ is called the eldest, and ‘Adviser of Heaven’ who counsels with gods and protects the mortals from fatality and evil. Flamel’s presence was something like that.

Nagini: The Aquarium By Camille Saint Saens, from Le Carnival des animaux.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpl-RNzdE4

Saint Saens’ Aquarium, is a doleful piece that evokes the image of the dimly lit, and often creepy aquarium. This so called aquarium is not visited at the daytime when the people are bustling, it is visited during the nighttime when there are no people. The Snake, is a creature that is fluid, smooth and meandered like water. This piece not only reminds me of an abandoned carnival, a place where Nagini belonged as a ‘freak’, but also a dimly lit, damp space where a snake inhabits. 

#fantastic beats and where to find them #fbawtfedit #fantastic beasts characters as classical music #newt scamander #theseus scamander #tina goldstein #queenie goldstein #jacob kowalski #albus dumbledore #niffler #bowtruckle #grindelwald #leta lestrange #credence barebone #nagini #nicholas flamel #seraphina picquery

[unrealcorvusmusic]

fucking idiot by unreal corvus

(chords follow lyrics)

shopping at freddy's so i can overeat when i get home all of the strangers and products remind me i'll go home alone i'm overwhelmed and exhausted resisting the impulse to fly standing in the produce section losing my fight not to cry---

then at the seafood counter a woman who looks just like you i haven't got all of my groceries but fuck it i'll check out i'm through remembering how you once left me in a safeway a few years ago i was too stupid to stop you i stood there and just watched you go

fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot! fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot! i let you go

you did a show at the coaster september the evening was cool i sat in the dark and i watched you and felt all my heartstrings unspool you were in steel magnolias a goddess you strode on that stage a woman wreathed in your power, giving life to the grief and the rage---

in the parking lot later you kissed me "i love you" was all that you said i mumbled some bulshit response and five years now i've lived with the dead i was too stupid to stop you i stood there and just watched you go but this song's to tell you i loved you even if you never know

fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot! fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot! i loved you why didn't i tell you? i loved you why didn't i tell you? i let you go

D Gm D Cadd9 G (X2) 3:30

D Gm shopping at freddy's so i D Cadd9 G can overeat when i get home D Gm all of these strangers and products D Cadd9 G remind me i'll go home alone D Gm i'm overwhelmed and exhausted D Cadd9 G resisting the impulse to fly D Gm standing in the produce section D Cadd9 G losing my fight not to cry---

D Gm D Cadd9 G

D Gm then at the seafood counter D Cadd9 G a woman who looks just like you D Gm i haven't got all of my groceries D Cadd9 G but fuck it i'll check out i'm through D Gm remembering how you once left me D Cadd9 G in a safeway a few years ago D Gm i was too stupid to stop you D Cadd9 G i stood there and just watched you go

Am E fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot! Am E fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot G i let you go

D Gm D Cadd9 G (X2)

D Gm you did a show at the coaster D Cadd9 G september the evening was cool D Gm i sat in the dark and i watched you D Cadd9 G and felt all my heartstrings unspool D Gm you were in steel magnolias D Cadd9 G a goddess you strode on that stage D Gm wreathed in your power, a woman D Cadd9 G giving life to the grief and the rage---

D Gm D Cadd9 G

D Gm in the parking lot later you kissed me D Cadd9 G "i love you" was all that you said D Gm i mumbled some bullshit response and D Cadd9 G five years now i've lived with the dead D Gm i was too stupid to stop you D Cadd9 G i stood there and just watched you go D Gm but this song's to tell you i loved you D Cadd9 G even if you never know

Am E fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot! Am E fucking idiot! i'm a fucking idiot! D Gm i loved you why didn't i tell you D Gm i loved you why didn't i tell you

C Gm i let you go

#unreal corvus music #original music #original lyrics #original song #music #folk music #chords #singer songwriter #sad old white guy with a guitar #tenor guitar

[unrealcorvus]

@blurred-cat your response to the lyrics that i posted a while back was so kind and made me so happy that something i had made had resonated with you so strongly.

i had an extra spoon or two today, so i recorded this for you.

#unreal corvus music #original lyrics #original song #original music #songwriter #songwriting #astoria oregon #i wish the recording quality was better but i live in a literal hole in the ground and i'm not a sound engineer

[unrealcorvus]

astoria canyon, astoria beautiful, goodnight

moon light writhes on the river and it shudders like a spine down the back of a lover wet with darkness and brine

wind she steals the hemlocks' secrets brings a new storm every day that the sea strings on her necklace when she's nothing good to say

drunk rain stumbles into doorways fog and night rob every eye in a town that watches over where the river flows to die

broken windows, empty storefronts broken dreams and empty nets and the boundary is the river brackish water and regrets

the river is the darkness on the edge of town but it's darker at the bottom where drunks and sailors drown

desdemona's going under the new moon hides his face at the deep end of the river disappointment is a place

and the current flows forever down a canyon filled with night to the bottom of the ocean past memory of light past all memory of light of light, of light light, light, light of light of light

astoria beautiful, corrupt inscrutable open hearted and insane museums, pot shops, bars, sightseers stuck in cars tweakers dancing in the rain

hippies hugging douglas firs, local bigots shouting slurs house buyers love the small town charms artists painting river scenes, toddler tantrum sidewalk screams till mama takes them in her arms

anxious actors stalk the stage, net knitters ache with age old veteran lost without his wife family store still selling shoes, old finns in lutheran pews gill netters mourn lost ways of life

cannery workers punching in, weary waitstaff patience thin two drunk loggers stop a fight tourists take a trolley ride, hydrologist predicts a slide towards a canyon filled with with night with night, with night, night, night, night goodnight goodnight

#original lyrics #original song #i wrote this #if my depression lifts enough i'll make and post a demo #unreal corvus music

[unrealcorvusmusic]

wednesday may 1st at 11pm pacific daylight time, (GMT -7) i'll be doing five or six of my original songs on a friend's radio show. it's a local community radio station that also streams online and if anyone cares enough to check it out but that's a bad time, they archive the streams for two weeks after they air.

i'll definitely be doing astoria canyon/astoria beautiful, green loveseat and ghosts and the river on the show. will figure out the other three in the next day or so.

anyone interested in hearing it can dm me for links.

#unreal corvus music #live performance #on the air #KMUN #radio

[unrealcorvusmusic]

green loveseat by unreal corvus (chords follow lyrics) (this is the fourth track off an album i wrote. i'll eventually post the whole thing in order, but i wanted to post this tonight because it's the 9th anniversary of the events in the song)

shitty basement apartment where we'd meet self stick vinyl tiled floor flight of stairs up to alameda street just two left turns to your door don't remember how that night began you read your letter to me said you cared for and desired me as a man but that we would never be

old green loveseat, and a moment there with you arm around you, hummed everlong then, our time together there was through now i can't bear that song we had lived in the moment that we had you'd told me things that i should know left it for tomorrow to be sad it was time for you to go

beloved, you know i don't believe in much of anything but in that moment i believed in you and i believed in love when we climbed the stairs to walk you home that final time our starry eyes were filled with light streaming from above we held hands and we gasped at the sky in wonder and i know you saw it just as well as i and the universe gave shape to what both of us were feeling there wild white horses rearing in the sky there wild white horses rearing in the sky there were wild white horses in the clouds wish we could have found a way there were wild rearing horses in the clouds guess they dragged you away

green loveseat (chords) by unreal corvus

G D Em C G D Em Em

G D Em C shitty basement apartment where we'd meet G D Em Em self stick vinyl tiled floor G D Em C flight of stairs up to alameda street G D Em Em just two left turns to your door G D Em C don't remember how that night began G D Em Em you read your letter to me G D Em C said you cared for and desired me as a man G D Em Em but that we would never be

Asus2 Emaj7 Bsus (x2) Asus2 Emaj7 G

G D Em C old green loveseat, and a moment there with you G D Em Em arm around you, hummed everlong G D Em C then, our time together there was through G D Em Em now i can't bear that song G D Em C we had lived in the moment that we had G D Em Em you'd told me things that i should know G D Em C left it for tomorrow to be sad G D Em Em it was time for you to go

Asus2 Emaj7 Bsus (x2)

Asus2 Emaj7 beloved, you know Bsus i don't believe in much of anything Asus2 Emaj7 but in that moment Bsus i believed in you and i believed in love Asus2 Emaj7 when we climbed Bsus the stairs to walk you home that final time Asus2 Emaj7 our starry eyes Bsus were filled with light streaming from above Asus2 Emaj7 we held hands Bsus and we gasped at the sky in wonder Asus2 Emaj7 Bsus and i know you saw it just as well as i Asus2 Emaj7 and the universe Bsus gave shape to what both of us were feeling Asus2 Emaj7 Bsus there wild white horses rearing in the sky Asus2 Emaj7 Bsus there wild white horses rearing in the sky

Asus2 Emaj7 Bsus Asus2 Emaj7 G

G D Em C there were wild white horses in the clouds G D Em Em wish we could have found a way G D Em C there were wild rearing horses in the clouds G D Em Em guess they dragged you away

Em(add9) Em Em(add9) Em

#unreal corvus music #original song #original music #chords #original lyrics #singer songwriter #indie #folk music #musicians on tumblr #music #sad old white guy with a guitar #tenor guitar

[unrealcorvus]

ghosts and the river - dirty demo

i've also posted this, with the lyrics and chords over on my brand new music blog @unrealcorvusmusic

#unreal corvus music #original music #original song #i made this #tenor guitar #folk #astoria oregon #singer songwriter #sowgwag #sad old white guy with a guitar #i'm not much of a guitar player