Zander Nyrond (featuring Chantelle Smith) - Changing Lives

from Return To Argenthome - The Rough Cuts by Zander Nyrond

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This is not a new song. In fact it's quite an old one. Long story short: some four or five years ago I planned an album of the songs from my novel "Return To Argenthome." I approached singers, recorded synth tracks, made plans. Now, some four or five years later, I have reluctantly accepted that it's not going to happen the way I wanted it to. I have therefore decided to put up my rough cut of the album, so that at least the songs are out there.

Most of these songs will have the scratch vocals done by me to give my prospective vocalists an idea of the tune, and also rough instrumental breaks on which I planned to improve when the time came for real recording. This is one blessed exception. The brilliant and talented Chantelle Smith recorded her own vocal track for Changing Lives, and has kindly granted me permission to use it. This was the song that was closest to done--the only thing that's missing is a slightly less jarring transition between the second and third sections--and so it's fitting that, despite being the last song in the book, it's the first song to be released from "Return To Argenthome - The Album."

I hope you like it.

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Changing Lives
(Gestalt)

I. Getting through the day
Wishing there was a better way
It's so easy to forget
All the things you haven’t done yet
Sometimes you need to be surprised
Sometimes you need to have the veil torn from your eyes...

Changing lives
Can be so frightening
Changing worlds
Can get the best of you
Changing times
They go by so quickly
The only way to survive
Is if you're changing too.

Fighting for your life
Balancing on the blade of a knife
Feeling lost at sea
Trying to find out what you should be
When the ground gives way right under your feet
Take a breath and be amazed, the air is oh so sweet...

Changing lives
Can be so frightening
Changing worlds
Can get the best of you
Changing times
They go by so quickly
The only way to survive
Is if you're changing too.

II. See, the day is dawning,
Clouds spell out a warning
This could be the morning
You’ve been waiting for.
Underneath your window
Can you hear the grass grow
Can you feel the wind blow
Just outside your door?

Listen to the birds sing
Hear the word that they bring
Nature is awaking
Just to tell the news;
Far across the skyline
You can see the sunshine
Spelling out a new sign
Time for you to choose.

No more fear and heartache
Chances there you must take
Make the choice for love’s sake
Even though it’s strange;
Turn and face a new fate
Quick before it’s too late
Step into your own state
Join the dance of change.

III. Now, as you answer the call,
As you let yourself fall,
You are one with it all.
Soon, you will float down the stream
And awake from your dream.
Things are not what they seem...

You, who were born of a star,
As you’re crossing the bar
Glimpse its light from afar.
Life is a game that we play
Just as night follows day;
Never throw it away.

Changing lives
Are no longer frightening.
Changing worlds
Are home now to you.
Changing times
Go by so quickly
But you know just what to do
To hold on to what is true
And you know you’ll see it through
Because you’re changing too.
Changing lives...
Changing lives...
Changing lives...

credits

from Return To Argenthome - The Rough Cuts, released November 29, 2018
Lyrics and tune by Zander Nyrond
Synth programming by Zander Nyrond (with help from Band In A Box)
Vocals by Chantelle Smith

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Zanda Myrande is still recovering from the trauma of being Zander Nyrond for several decades. She has only come out online at this point, for reasons which may be apparent from the picture above, but she proudly embraces her trans identity while still giving house room to Zander and the rest of the deadbeats who populate her head.

Lives in Wiltshire and has better friends than she deserves. ... more

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