Whispers

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Inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and influenced by the context of "Apocalypse Now", Whispers was written with a Vietnam-era vibe to it.

The episode where this is featured follows Jacob on a "hero's quest" that parallels the plot of "Heart of Darkness" and both the song and the episode are developed to include many of the motifs from the novel with subtle acknowledgements to how they were adapted for the film.

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Whispers
Spoken Word (either singer or another voice) (1.19min-1.39min)
‘Don’t you hear them?’ The dusk was repeating them in a persistent whisper all around us, in a whisper that seemed to swell menacingly like the first whisper of a rising wind. ‘The horror! the horror!’.
V1)
Whispers in the night,
Murmurs on the breeze.
The darkness has it’s own life
Brought closer by the trees.

I come not seeking bloodshed
Or power displayed
I am a humble trader
Seeing that my master’s paid
C)
Ebony for Ivory
Lives lived without living
A man that I hoped I would be
Takes all without giving

But how do you show a madness that he once was a man?
How do you tame a whisper
In an unknown land?
V2)
Bullets in the night
Dealt by the white man’s hand
We’re killed and called the savages
By strangers to our lands
C)
Ebony for Ivory
Lives lived without living
A man that I hoped I would be
Takes all without giving

But how do you show a madness that he once was a man?
How do you tame a whisper
In an unknown land? In an unknown land. Unknown…

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from Musical Book Revue - Backing Tracks, released September 29, 2016

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Musical Book Revue Perth, Australia

Inspired by
Frankenstein,
Nineteen Eighty-Four,
Heart of Darkness,
To the Lighthouse,
Of Mice and Men
and
The Handmaid's Tale

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