Name: The Reason Why
Duration: P00H08M07S
Description: It took nearly 15 years for this track to evolve to its current form. Cherelle-Renée came up with the melody at the age of 11 and originally intended it to be the overture to an opera. That opera was never written. It did, however, end up being a prelude to the Gatekeeper's rock opera.

The Reason Why

from Gatekeepers by Legend's Ghost

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It took nearly 15 years for this track to evolve to its current form. Cherelle-Renée came up with the melody at the age of 11 and originally intended it to be the overture to an opera. That opera was never written. It did, however, end up being a prelude to the Gatekeeper's rock opera.

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Motionless on a cold stone floor
Fragments of a dream drift around me
Trying to define the undefinable
Trying to comprehend the incomprehensible

A hand reaches out of me
Groping in the darkness for me
For what I lost
For what I never found
Grasping for a heart to beat with mine
Grasping for a soul to sing with mine

The song from my dream slowly fades
As I try to make out what it was trying to say
All I know is it was beautiful

A soft breeze blows on my cheek
Like a gentle kiss of peace
And yet still I reach, feeling nothing
Yet feeling warm and safe
As the walls around me crumble and shake

Slowly I rise and join the dance around me
The dance of all who've felt like me
A million hearts beating as one
A million souls singing as one

Each their own special part of this intricate dance
Entranced with this life-giving romance

But then the dream abruptly stops
I awaken once again on the floor
Still motionless
Still alone
Still reaching
Staring at the walls
Hoping one day they'll crumble again

I rise to my feet
Until that day, I'll dance

credits

from Gatekeepers, released November 16, 2014
Vocals and Synth programming: Cherelle-Renée Childs
Guitar: Andreas Ravnestad
Piano: Jilly Comrie
Bass: Anders Thonander
Violin: Rebekka Schmidt

Music and lyrics by Cherelle-Renée Childs
Mixed by Ivan Pantoja

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