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'Mistakes Were Made' (Remix)

from randomness by Denise Hudson

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    The whole story of this track is on my blog here. (see below credits for track art)

    http://philosophywithfries.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/mistakes-were-made/

    The long piano solo at the beginning features the national anthem themes of five countries, in addition to Russia (no Russians were involved in Song Fu competition, but one of my "characters" is Russian - as you can see in the lyrics). The anthems go
    Scotland, England, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Russia, US.

    It's basically about a fantasy murder during the Olympics featuring two characters I made up. No actual Olympians were harmed during the making of this track. The holiday referenced was Valentine's day, taking place during the special time of the Winter Olympics.
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This song was submitted for The Masters of Song Fu 5, Round 3.
The challenge was to write a winter holiday song that is not about the holidays.

lyrics

I’m cold, but we’re used to it
You say something in Russian about shadows
and I say “the trees throw dark shapes on the ground …”
And you say “it looks like they’re hunting us down”

And you’re not supposed to be gold for me … just distracting

So I say “sure, yeah … we’re running away
from the village, the interviews, Valentine’s Day.”
And I watched you stroke for an hour on the ice
-we killed time, breathing, taking up space

Now we’ve gone too far in the dark cold
On the floor of the forest the leaves have turned gold

We are skin and flesh and bone through
You slip over me and I’m tangled around you
We can’t feel the air and you breathe through my mouth
-you swallow my excuses right down

And afterwards I talked about my problem;
you say – “don’t say his name”
but a spade is a spade and we’ve dug our own … grave

So you hand me the bottle and I drink and ask,
“what should become of your lover-then … lover?”
When you wrap together, or throw her, or lift her up high
is the dance a ritual of sacrifice?

The next day it’s not okay
and there’s nothing to say
…but

“mistakes were made”

We must be content to go separately alone
-call the searches for animals lucky
The lake is so icy, we’re both so strong
but it won’t be winter …for long

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from randomness, track released December 15, 2009
All Sounds by Denise Hudson
Poison Tree Frog Productions

The cover art for this track is
c. Christa Belle
and is Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License
she's located at www.christabelle.com
and the photo was taken from the entry here:
www.christabelle.com/index.php/creative_juices/blood-in-the-forest/

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I am DJ Ranger Den. This is the main musician alias for Denise Hudson. She is neither DJ or Ranger. Things change and develop around here a lot.

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