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Alternate Universe

from Tandem by Steve and Kristi Nebel

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¾ time cosmic consciousness with arpeggio intro and outro. I’m self-conscious about the fact that as I get older I am still part of one of the largest “groups” on the planet, “baby boomers”. That certainly means that there are likely to be a lot of songs written about end of life issues in the next 10 years or so as we of my generation write our last few songs before we pass into the great beyond. Oh, and by the way, I’m an atheist so I’ll be staying behind to fertilize whatever comes after us.

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Alternate Universe


Sometimes the words are broken
The pieces can't be made to fit
They wander around through a universe
Where you couldn't make sense of it
The colors are bright, and the light shocks your eyes
Then the dance goes around, and around
You find yourself in a looking glass world
Where your alternate universe abounds

You look through the clouds to the planet
You marvel at the greens, and the blue
The red lights that dance on the eye of a needle
Wonder what is their meaning to you
You think of the kind of conditions
You lived in when you were a child
Where you'd run through the water barefoot and naked
It Was a time when you could see wild

Now you can't get to the middle
You think you can see to the end
The beginnings forgotten, the path is forsaken
It's a long ways in back of a bend
Every year finds there's more people
The planet gets stressed a bit more
What makes you think I don't notice
Or why you haven't thought this before


I won't be leaving this planet
I'm certain that I won't survive
Yes, I'll be returning to carbon and gas
Nobody gets out of here alive
Still I'm reminiscing a future
Where a human race grew to survive
Still sometimes I wonder just why I should care
I guess it's the thrill of the ride

REPEAT FIRST VERSE, END

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from Tandem, released March 5, 2023

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Steve and Kristi Nebel Tacoma, Washington

Steve and Kristi Nebel bring passion, finesse, and beauty with their songs of social justice, knife edge observations, and pure, simple love. They have traveled extensively having done nine tours in UK folk clubs and festivals. They have recorded more than ten CDs, mostly of their own songs. ... more

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