Absent Today lyrics

HOLLOWED OUT BETWEEN THE TREES YOU'VE SPOKEN

WALK AWAY FROM ALL YOU'LL EVER NEED

CAVE INTO AN EMPTY GLASS YOU'VE BROKEN

FAR TOO LONG

HERE ALL GONE

BLOWN FAR AWAY

ABSENT TODAY

BEHIND YOURSELF YOU KNOW YOU'RE REALLY THERE

INSIDE YOURSELF YOU KNOW YOU REALLY CARE

WAKE THE NIGHT

FEEL THE FIGHT

GLOW THROUGH THE HAZE

ABSENT TODAY

ALL NOT LOST

ANY COST

REACH FOR A RAY

BALANCE TODAY

:~)

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The lyrics in this song "Absent Today" are screaming to you to look deep inside yourself! Deep within is the true essence of you! The kind, loving being ("Behind yourself you know you're really there. Inside yourself you know you really care.") It's never too late to crack the filaments of the fictitious you - the you you think you are. It's time to delve into yourself and weed out the superfluous crap! Now go "glow through the haze" and find your inner balance!!

- Ian -

 

 

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New single "Absent Today" released!

Song one of three has been released! "Absent Today" is now available for purchase on CDBaby and iTunes. It took Tim (co-producer/sound engineer), Dave (guitarist), and Erik (bass) and I a good 4 days to record, mix and master. I must say am quite proud of this one!! Everyone did such a fantastic job! My drums didn't require any tuning!!! Seriously! I pulled them out of their cases after over a year (kept them in my storage room) and lo and behold - perfectly tuned! Keyboards were a snap considering I didn't even have to lift a finger. I simply recorded them on my Tascam recorder at home and uploaded them to Tim who then added them to the studio tracks!! Gotta love that!!! I really hope you enjoy "Absent Today"!!! Song number 2 will be ready towards the end of October, so keep an ear out!!!! :~)

Ian

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New 3 - song EP to be released in December!

On Sunday, August 22nd I will once again be hauling my acoustic Ludwig drumset up 3 flights of stairs (StudioBallistico is one stop short of the stratosphere), to begin my next creative adventure! This will be the day I record the drum tracks, vocals and some other things I can't mention (surprise) for my next 3 - song EP. No title for the EP just yet, however, "Absent Today" will definitely be one of the three songs. The following week will include visits from Erik Swanson (bass), Dave Bowers (guitar) and Tim Sandusky (co-producer, sound engineer and musician). "Absent Today" should be complete by the end of August. I am planning song 2 (completed on keyboard and drums on my home digital recorder) to be recorded at Studio Ballistico in October and song 3 in November. Please visit Posterous, or Blogger for all the latest regarding the upcoming release!

Ian

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My live radio interview on 6.3.2010 (podcast) with BlogTalk Radio host Tania-Maria...

If you missed my radio interview here is the podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ian-narcisi-fear-no-evil-jun/id313536829?i=83824782

Make sure you open it with iTunes when prompted, or you will not see the podcast listed. Opening it using iTunes will take you right to my iTunes store and the podcast! :~)

Enjoy!

Ian

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LIVE RADIO INTERVIEW THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD (7p PDT/10p EDT). YOU ARE INVITED!

Ok, gotta promote. At 7 p.m. PDT, 8 p.m. MDT, 9 p.m. CDT and 10 p.m. EDT I am being interviewed live on
BlogTalkRadio for 1.5 hours. Consider yourself invited! Radio host Tania-Maria and I will be discussing my 05'-09' releases and reminiscing...I also will talk about what music is to come and when it most likely will ...be released.... http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129809600366097&index=1

Hope you all can make it! :~)

Ian

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Music sitch

It has been over two months since I last wrote. I have 14 new songs in the making. Nine songs are ready for drums and vocals. Five songs are a simple melody that will turn into full-blown songs in the weeks and months to come. It's this ninth song that is challenging me big time. I pushed myself to the limit on this one! "Heavy", solo parts at the end (piano). By "heavy" I mean "physically challenging". I have to actually practice my chromatic rises and descending arpeggio's to pull this one off. I know that it will all pay off in the end. Once complete it is on to the next five. I have simple melodies and chordal changes and due to this may jump straight into drums adding the keys later. I really do love writing songs on piano, but sometimes you just gotta get the hell away from it before all the songs start sounding like.....well......piano songs.

Studio time? Not in the plans at this point in time. I was thinking of some live stuff (and still am), but not sure when this will all come about. Another victim of the recession. I got out of that pit a month ago, but you know; these things take time to heal. So, as a result everything has been pushed back. No biggie. I will just keep on writing and recording at home until I can give Tim, Erik and Dave a call and we will begin working on the next album. Life is auspicious................

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Chicago Blizzard Tuesday?? (2.9.2010)

    The weather geek in me always peaks whenever I see a significant weather event coming together. Tuesday's (2.9.2010) potential snow storm in Chicago is no exception. As it looks now two low pressure systems (one heading south southeast from Manitoba, Canada and one from the southwest US) are to merge somewhere over north central Missouri some time Monday evening (2.8.2010). The exact track of this storm is not written in stone, but given the right scenario (i.e. the storm tracks through southern Illinois, north Kentucky) Chicago has the potential to receive 6 to 10 inches of snow. To potentially add insult to injury, lake effect may play a part in this storm as well. As the slow-moving mesocyclone shifts east a strong east, northeast wind will develop. With the cold wind howling over the relatively-speaking mild, 34-degree Lake Michigan waters heavy snow squalls could form buffeting Lake, Cook, DuPage and even McHenry counties with even more snow (at this point in time the National Weather Service is predicting 8 to 12 inches in the aforementioned counties.) 
    From what I have witnessed over the past 33 years (yes, I have been a geek this long) this merging of two mesocyclones (aka low pressure systems) to form one blockbuster storm is a rare occurrence. Even more amazing is how the massive blizzard that recently nailed the central Appalachians two days ago is so similar to what is about to occur here in the Midwest! This weather scenario too was a culmination of two mesocyclones merging which were further intensified by strong jet streaks (areas of very strong wind within a given jetstream). On the edges of these jet streaks are areas of intense lift. Within a given winter storm these jet streaks create incredible snow amounts due to intense, vertical lift (Dulles International Airport's very recent record of 32.4 inches of snow over a two day period! This massive amount of snow shattered their January 7, 8, 1996 two-day snow record total by 9.2 inches!!).
    If you are reading this, live in Chicago, or anywhere near Chicago (Winter Storm Watches are popping up more and more all over the Midwest, Ohio Valley, Pennsylvania, Maryland [yes, potentially Washington D.C. again]) please keep abreast of what is inevitable - A BIG ONE!!
CHECK OUT ALL THE WATCHES AND WARNINGS DUE TO THESE/THIS STORM(S)!
Take care everyone,
Ian

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