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Part 5 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"The Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey..."
From H.P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 5 - Trapped

Chartreuse Dreams

My first-ever song.  I wrote this in 1997, as a 17-year-old child, at which time it was just called "With You." I've changed a couple of the lyrics, to make them a little better, just a little but otherwise tried to keep it how it was, however it's still rather schmaltzy.  Recorded 2023, day of upload actually, after finding this song among scraps of paper I had in an old folder.  

There's a particular chord progression in this that I know I used in a number of songs I wrote soon after this, this little thing in particular Eb - D - Gm, which I had a strong liking for at the time.  I can remember why, but it's a shame I got stuck writing the same kind of thing initially.  

Anyway, I was inspired to write this, as a child, after watching "An Audience with Elton John," minutes after it finished, someone who I became a keen fan of for a while after that, who also is a particularly heavy influence on my earlier output.  I just looked up the date that aired on ITV, which means I wrote this on the 27th of September 1997, while my parents were out with friends, unaware of what their son was up to at home, alone - striving to be a STAR!!!  

One of the original lyrics I had to change, a particular line, goes on about this love interest "blowing out my candle," which was clearly a vomit-enducing Candle in the Wind reference, thing, in some effort to be a little more like Elton at the time, I suppose.  CRINGE!!! Anyway, that's been amended now, some 26 years later! 

Anyway, it's still schmaltzy as hell, given I wanted it to be as close as possible to how it originally was, way back when.  

It's a pity I can't find a recording of this, as much as it would sound dreadful.  I know that I did record it at the time, and a little later, with the limited means I had.  I haven't gone through all my cassettes and mini disks from back then though, so who knows, it may grace my ears again at some point in many years to come. 

I'm worried that this might get more traction than my other tracks.  I couldn't bear it if this particular one ended up at the top of my most popular list, but then it's a risk we have to make when we post stuff like this.

The artwork is just a load of Ai generated rubbish!

Anyway, here are the words.  It's clearly about being obsessed with someone or other, though I don't remember who! 

Lyrics

Love is a storm
It rips your heart out
Tears though your mind
They say true, true love never really dies
I can’t move through this wreckage deep inside

Pain can be deep
So deep your soul can’t
Take any more
If only, someone knew what I’m going through
They’d dig me in so deep that I can’t see you

Cause I think that if I could be
The one to hold your hand
My life would be free from all the pain I’ve had
You know I want you in my life
You know that I need you by my side
This feeling just takes over 
Whenever I’m with you
Whenever I’m near you

I fail, to believe
That I don’t need you 
When you come near me
I need to blow out this fire
When you come to spark
Find time for me to guide me Through the dark

Cause I think that if I could be
The one to hold your hand
My life would be free from all the pain I’ve had
You know I want you in my life
You know that I need you by my side
This feeling just takes over 
Whenever I’m with you
Whenever I’m near you

Whenever I'm Near You (1997)

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