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  1. Two Solitudes

From the recording MY MUSEUM

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8. TWO SOLITUDES
(music and lyrics - Peter Eldridge)
Peter Eldridge - keyboards, vocals
Ben Wittman - programming, engineering and mixing
Darmon Meader - saxophone
Co-produced by Ben Wittman and Peter Eldridge
- this tune definitely evokes a very particular time and place for me, in it’s production (and reverb settings). Definitely an all midi-based track from Ben and I, except for my vocals and Darmon Meader’s sweet sax playing. Based on a Rilke poem of the same name, this is my groovy soul bossa nova love song. It was inspired by Stevie Wonder’s moody, harmonically sexy ‘Creepin’ (which I’ve been obsessed with since I was very young). And it seems I may have been listening to a lot of Luther Vandross at the time I recorded the vocals (!?).

Lyrics

TWO SOLITUDES
(music and lyrics - Peter Eldridge)

SOMETIMES YOU FEEL FAR AWAY
SOME DAYS WE LOSE WORDS TO SAY
CAUGHT UP IN OUR OWN SEPARATE DREAMS & MOODS

FEELING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO SOLITUDES

PLEASE DON’T LEAD ME, WALK BY MY SIDE
TWO ROADS, ONE DESTINATION WITH LOVE AS OUR GUIDE
EACH DAY SO DIFFERENT, WHO KNOWS WHAT MAY INTRUDE

KEEPING A DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO SOLITUDES

NO MATTER HOW MUCH THAT WE DISCOVER
HOW CAN WE MAKE ONE SOUL OUT OF TWO
NO MATTER THE BONDS BETWEEN EACH OTHER
IN LOVE I’LL BE MILES AWAY FROM YOU

GRANTING SPACES AND SHARING GRATITUDE
LOVING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO SOLITUDES . . . . .