Name: Ten Thousand Years
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: I was watching one of my favorite films John Carpenter's "The Thing" and started thinking about the power of history and how conquerors yield the pen documenting it. This song is about the spirits and histories thousands of years old omnipotently watching the wheels go round while stuck frozen and unable to write the wrongs, tell their stories, and chime in as to what actually happened.

Ten Thousand Years

by Melz

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I was watching one of my favorite films John Carpenter's "The Thing" and started thinking about the power of history and how conquerors yield the pen documenting it. This song is about the spirits and histories thousands of years old omnipotently watching the wheels go round while stuck frozen and unable to write the wrongs, tell their stories, and chime in as to what actually happened.

lyrics

LYRICS:

me
from an ice age
cast
in glass
time
never finds me
but i'll wait until the end it comes so fast

so the sea
waits for me
tired
overload
and the sea
waits and watches
tide ebbs and flows

stay
arms wide open
watch the sun a million times it sets
all
stuck and frozen
primate love that ends can never last

bound in glass
i am fossil
ten thousand years from today
and the past cruelly rewritten
whitewashed all our histories away

bound in glass
i am fossil
ten thousand years from today

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released October 23, 2020
Written, played, sung + produced by mbd

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Melz Los Angeles, California

Solo project of multi-instrumentalist Melissa Dougherty based out of Los Angeles, CA. Melissa has toured and played with many artists nationally and internationally (Miguel, Mayer Hawthorne, Grace VanderWaal, Imagine Dragons, Florence + the Machine, The Killers, RHCP, Reggie Watts band, Kacey Musgraves and Local Natives to name a few). ... more

discography

moonglow

Oct 2023
High Times for Revelry

Jun 2022
Honey Dear

Nov 2021
Arvo

Nov 2020
New Reality

Nov 2020
Ten Thousand Years

Oct 2020
Slides

Oct 2020

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