Necropolis
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The song started 8 Mar 2001.  Originally it was called "To Die."
I didn't really like the title.  C. Brian suggested Necropolis
and it sounded pretty good.

The lyrics were created through an E-mail collaboration with
C. Brian.

Here are some excerpts from those E-mails:

	The them is death.  The loneliness... the finality...
	the inevitable... the letting go of all earthly cares
	and concerns.

	...

	Overall I'm digging it.  I look at what I had originally
	wrote against what you did and realize that I should 
	stick with programming.

	I'm struggling with the hourglass line.  The reason is
	that it is too many syllables and I know it'll choke
	when I try to put into music.  I'll keep thinking about
	it unless you come up with something.

	Of course, I'm always interested in more....  Did you
	know that "more" is my second favorite word?

	...

	I'm not so sure about the concepts of "happy"
	and "blessed" in the song we have thus far.
	I've been sort of steering the song to be about
	the lonliness/emptiness/nothingness of death.
	Even the strangeness/darkness/mystery.  The 
	reason is because of the tone of the music.

	There is, of course, another vantage to be 
	considered, i.e. the promise/new beginning/
	spiritual radiance/contendedness aspect.  I
	wonder if there isn't another song in here.
	Perhaps the two songs might be somehow linked.
	Maybe it should be the same song with a bridge
	of some sort?

	...

	The song seems to be taking the following 
	shape:

	Verse 1: The emptiness and finality of death.
	Verse 2: Death likened to a place or a journey.

	How about if we make a third verse:

	Verse 3: Death being a rebirth

20 May 2001
I have a finished form of the song.  They lyrics were tricky
as my voice doesn't seem to fit the range too well.  I sang
it early in the morning which gave it a very raw sound.  I
then decided to smooth it out with some reverb.