In The Shadow Of Prometheus

New music -  "Across The Great Divide" constructs a compelling drive to it's intriguing coda.  There is a solid sense of a momentum throughout the orchestrated tour. 

Lyrics-
The commodore has gone to war
We ne'er shall see him anymore
Close the door quick before
the crows come home to feast

Across the great divide
Across the great divide
 
3D Paramnesia
the dream within the dream
vapors & illusions
Bind the surgeon's seam

Devils in the details
Gods in bas-relief
Dancing to the surface noise
delighted in deceit

Hey
I cross the great divide
I cross the great divide

There is but one success in this world
To spend your days as you would choose
So we cast our swine before the pearl
the heart that guides the hand
is yours to lose

Dante's riding shotgun in the mercy seat
On the Underground
Looking for Atlantis
 it's nowhere to be found

Once he bought the ticket
Hunter took the ride
Into that cryptic thicket
Across the great divide

Across the great divide
Across the great divide

Devils in the details
Gods in bas-relief
Dancing to the surface noise
delighted in deceit

Across the great divide
Across the great divide

There is but one success in this world
To spend your days as you would choose
So would you cast your swine before the pearl?
the heart that guides the hand
is yours to lose
 
Across the great divide
Across the great divide...
...follow me
Across the great divide 

Copyright 2014 Ben New


Across The Great Divide

Moody atmospheric piece alluding to the human existential condition.
Lyrics- 
Curved Spacetime

Moments pass
As moments will
Time to burn
Time to kill

Time to come
and time to go
As above
 so below

The only knowledge I avow
Is I am here and it is now

You can get there from here
But you can't return
Time to rise & shine
Time to crash & burn

The only knowledge I avow
Is I am here and it is now

the past recedes, it disapears
Days to months & months to years
A trick of the light and a roll of the dice
You can't step in the same river twice

See the monkey on a wire
run with scissors
play with fire
Here between the Earth and skies
I'm just watching the north wind rise

The only knowledge I avow
Is I am here and it is now
the past recedes, it disapears
Days to months & months to years
A trick of the light and a roll of the dice
You can't step in the same river twice

I am but a point upon a line
In a tapestry of curved space time
I am but a point upon a line
In a tapestry of curved space time
I am but a point upon a line
In a tapestry of curved space time
I am but a point upon a line
In a tapestry of curved space time


Light
Sparkles
Time
Space
Are simply
You...
Smile

Curved Space Time
Curved Space Time....


(Copyright 2014 Ben New)

Curved Space Time

Well it's sort of metapop... some convergence of rock pop techno alt new wave indie with a reggae tag for good measure. 
Lyrics-
See the many worlds
unfold before your eyes 
Touch infinity
peer though all disguise

In the emptiness
The causal diamond gleams
In your tenderness
Love can reign supreme

Twisted & broken
we're on the mean free path
Words gone unspoken
Long as life should last

See the universe 
Expanding in the dark
watching stars fade out
Fly to Vegas on a lark
 
These are the bitter fruits
Lain before the feet
I drain the venom cup
And champion the obsolete

You can't be Sirius
Your not Andromeda
I've grown delirious
Uranophobia

Twisted & broken
we're on the mean free path
Words gone unspoken
Long as life should last
(as long as life should last...as long as life should last...
as long as life should last...Here in this quantum box)

The crepes of wrath are served
with Angostura bark
and Bitter orange preserves
In silence after dark

We've all seen better days
better days than this
As shorelines fade away
from view on sailing ships

Twisted & broken
we're on the mean free path
Words gone unspoken
Long as life should last

Your not the Helix Nebula
Your not the eye of god
but then you just might be 
The Venus of Cape Cod

Chorus
Twisted & broken
we're on the mean free path
Words gone unspoken
Long as life should last
                          
The crepes of wrath are served
with Angostura bark
and Bitter orange preserves
In silence after dark

Your not the Helix Nebulea
Your not the eye of god
but then you just might be 
The Venus of Cape Cod

We all know better ways 
better ways to be
And as it all decays
and sinks into the sea

I long to be
In your quantum box
I long to be 
in your quantum box

In Your Quantum Box

Mostly a keyboard oriented outing here.
Stylistically divergent for me. I think it captures something though. 
Lyrics--
Starfall invocations
Eventide succumbs to night
Running lights dissolved in void
Judgment on the Hallelujah Trail
Lifted up to infinite spaces
I have become death, the destroyer of worlds


Parlor tricks on the water
Jersey Sailor and the the moon
Drift away in photographs
like tide pools in the dunes

Now she said
as her jasmine shadow spread
she implies
how the stars would burn my eyes

(I have become Death, destroyer of worlds)

There's a wildwater goddess
at the threshold of the port
revelations on the transom
selling sanctuary short

Red Sky
At Night
Red Sky
Sailor's Delight

Now she said
as her jasmine shadow spread
she implies
how the stars would burn my eyes

Now you say
we have left the milky way
In my head
We remain at home in bed
What you say
It's ourselves that we betray
You're on the Dune
Along With Jersey Sailor & the moon

Starfall
Starfall
Starfall now

Parlor tricks on the water
Jersey Sailor and the the moon
Drift away in photographs
like tide pools in the dunes

Now she said
as her jasmine shadow spread
she implies
how the stars would burn my eyes
Now she said
as her jasmine shadow spread
she implies
how the stars would burn my eyes
Jersey Sailor and the moon
(Starfall...Starfall...Starfall now)


Jersey Sailor And The Moon

This is more or less a Funky outing in the style of the Talking heads...but features Lap Steel guitar. Lyrics deal with economics and social justice.

We're Walking On The Moon
The politician
has no position
he's just flapping his jaws
Extreme rendition
and superstition
As he makes his withdraws

We're on a mission
an expedition,
got to sow what you reap
Austere condition
is the polar opposition
throws the future on a junk heap

Hey Hey
I don't care what you say
I'm going fishing on Mars
Keep your stone age
to yourself
I'd rather fly to the stars

The dark is lighter
tomorrow's brighter,
than you'll hear from racketeers
The black is whiter
the space is hyper
In between the ears

The inclination 
for domination
lie and cheat and distort
deprivation
and desperation
sell the future short

Hey Hey
I don't care what you say
I'm going fishing on Mars
Keep your stone age
to yourself
I'd rather fly to the stars

When you say there is no future there won't be one,
We'll be talking in our eternal sleep in the long run
Long Long Run
In the Long Long Run
Long Long Run
We're walking on the moon
We're walking on the moon

The high and mighty placed a wager
they lost their Burberry Shirts
The low and feeble minded people 
think the hungry should buy them desserts

Walking on the moon
Hey Hey
I don't care what you say
I'm going fishing on Mars
Keep your stone age
to yourself
I'd rather fly to the stars

Walking on the moon
Hey Hey
I don't care what you say
I'm going fishing on Mars
Keep your stone age
to yourself
I'd rather fly to the stars

copyright 2014 Ben New 

We're Walking On The Moon

Instrumental piece from the The Western Front Of Dreams.
Tape loops done "old school style" using 2 analog reel to reel decks.


Godzilla Guaguanco

Anti War Anthem --
Lyrics--
The Dogs Of War

Informants and insurgents
the attrition's gone awry
Inciting incidents
Where allegiance lies

Sabotage the sanctions
fill the garrisons with gas
Scramble the subversives
Don't implicate the brass

(All is proceeding according to plans
The targets are bleeding torpedoes be damned)
Covert operations
Barricade the borders
Mobilized marauders
following their orders

Geezers and appeasers
Civilians drones and grunts
Anti aircraft action
on the western front

Barricade the bunker
Camouflage the cannon
all you doughboys & conscripts
and you worshipers of Mammon

We got laser guided foxholes
escalating Escalation
proxy wars & profiteers
releasing radiation


It's bayonets & bullets
Battalions & brigades
It's fortified flotillas
grenades & dress parades  

Everybody knows the score
more & more & more and more
Open up the service door
Release the dogs of war

Everybody knows the score
more & more & more and more
Open up the service door
Release the dogs of war

The dogs of war

(Copyright Ben New 2014)

The Dogs Of War

This is track 11 from the Western Front Of Dreams CD 
(Available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bennew4)
Lyrics-
Entanglement by Ben New (copyright 2014 Ben New)

Kingdom come
and kingdom go
we all endow
The devil we know

In measured steps
we leave this place
Victims of
this time and space

(Chorus)
Entanglement
and rendezvous
fractured flights
with no ground crew
Entanglement 
and alchemy
Ascendency
dependency

Heartless house
on Hollow Street
carnivores
in cat bird seats

There you sit
upon your throne
surrounded by 
Walls of stone

Entanglement
and rendezvous
fractured flights
with no ground crew
Entanglement 
and alchemy
Ascendency
dependency

(bridge)
Say you're sorry
when you kneel
On safari
in your ferris wheel


Shooting stars
in drive by sprees
On a lark
for varieties

by bounds and leaps
you jumped the shark
You took the heat
it left a mark

Entanglement
and rendezvous
fractured flights
with no ground crew
Entanglement 
and alchemy
Ascendency
dependency

There you sit
upon your throne
surrounded by 
the Walls of stone

Entanglement

Alternative rock from the album "Still Come The Summer Rains".

Benjamin E. New