The Grey Room II (Hidden Annexe)

I have during the week returned to a track I started a couple of weeks back called "The Grey Room II (Hidden Annexe)". After struggling with this one things clicked in to place last night with the structure of the song completed and a rough demo recorded.

The song was intended to be an instrumental which was inspired by the story of Anne Frank (Hence the "Hidden Annexe" reference in the song title) but today I have come up with some lyrics and done a very rough vocal over the demo and it sounds promising. I have written the lyrics which refer back to the time the frank family hid in an annexe in a building during the war.

Here are the lyrics:

A Thousand Pages On The Floor
Inside A Place That No One Knew
The Memories From So Long Ago
A Room With People I Don't Know

Although I Never Knew His Name
He Looked Like Someone That I Knew
He Cast A Shadow By The Door
I Think I've Seen Him Here Before

Outside I Want To Catch My Breath
I Look Around But, There's No One Left

Outside I Want To Catch My Breath
I Look Around But, There's No One Left

Lyrics By Gary Hunter

New Album Updates

Spent some time mixing a few tracks for the album, one of them, "A Million Stars" has had the vocals re-recorded and also a lot of changes made regards effects used on the vocals. The song is pretty much complete as is an extended version of the song. "The Grey Room" has had the drums re-recorded as there was a minor issue regards note lengths being all over the place so that has been re-done, also slight changes made in the sequencer sections, again this track is pretty much done.

The other new track "Annexe" actually has a similar sound and structure to "The Grey Room" so I have decided to re-name the song "The Grey Room II (Hidden Anexxe)". Still some work to do on this one.

I still need to tidy up the vocal on "I Remember You" and once that is done and I am happy with the mixes for "A Million Stars" then it is on to a track called "Car Crash Flashback" which needs new vocals doing I think!

If I can get all the above sorted in the next week or so the songs completed will be as follows:

"Stranger In A Room"
"I Remember You"
"A Million Stars"
"A Million Stars (Extended Version)"
I Once Was A Machine"
"The Grey Room"
"The Grey Room II (Hidden Annexe)"
"Car Crash Flashback"

I then need to look at completing "A Face I Knew" (Album & Extended Versions)and "The Glimmer Man" (Album & Extended Versions). That will give me 9 tracks for the album PLUS 3 Extended Version Bonus tracks. Lyrics have been done for 2 other tracks "Smoke Screen" and "Years Ago" but no music.

Gary

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