(upbeat rock music) - [Announcer] Ocean State Sessions features performances by local musicians and brings you the stories behind the songs.

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♪ I'm just here pounding my heart out ♪ ♪ You can't pretend you don't see ♪ ♪ I don't have any answers ♪ ♪ I just want you ♪ ♪ To feel it in me ♪ (gentle guitar strumming) ♪ The proof is heaven ♪ ♪ Where nobody goes ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Travel fast from a frantic past ♪ ♪ Before my mind comes unglued ♪ (gentle music) ♪ It start with some devotion ♪ ♪ Then gets quite out of hand ♪ ♪ Leading into the motions ♪ ♪ That move you where you stand ♪ ♪ Now you start the division ♪ ♪ Counting 4, 2, and 3 ♪ ♪ 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2 ♪ ♪ And an easy decision ♪ ♪ Creates the ectasy ♪ ♪ I'm just here pounding my heart out ♪ ♪ You can't pretend you don't see ♪ ♪ I don't have any answers ♪ ♪ I just want you to feel it in me ♪ ♪ Pervading all the sensation ♪ ♪ Of rising pulses and waves ♪ ♪ Exquisite coordination takes your breath away ♪ ♪ I'm just here pounding my heart out ♪ ♪ You can't pretend you don't see ♪ ♪ I don't have any answers ♪ ♪ I just want you to feel it with me ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ I'm just here pounding my heart out ♪ ♪ You can't pretend you don't see ♪ ♪ I don't have any answers, I just want you ♪ ♪ To feel it with me ♪ ♪ Feel it with me ♪ ♪ Feel it with me ♪ ♪ Feel it with me ♪ - I had just put a drum set into my studio for the first time in many years.

So I started to practice.

I started to do these rudiments and I realized it's this dance that's always happening between all of your limbs, has nothing to do with your fingers.

And as I'm doing it, I'm sitting there counting.

I'm like 1, 2, 3, 4, and one, and you're trying to get things going.

And when I went back to the lyrics, I was just like, oh there you go.

Subdivisions, 1, 2, 3, 4.

And how it's the drummer that kind of makes the band you know, not to say bands without drummers can't rock.

But I would say that the drummer in any band makes or breaks the band.

(upbeat guitar strumming) ♪ Once a slight ♪ ♪ Shade ♪ ♪ On an otherwise ♪ ♪ Bright day ♪ ♪ Made its way to the light ♪ ♪ This was not ♪ ♪ For its own sake ♪ ♪ Calling no one friend ♪ ♪ But wanting just to peak between the leaves ♪ ♪ Just to see the glean of shade at night ♪ ♪ No more room she said for these ♪ ♪ The color's faded ♪ ♪ It's okay, remember ♪ ♪ I'm still holding you ♪ ♪ Once a slight ♪ ♪ Maybe ♪ ♪ Found the strength ♪ ♪ To wait ♪ ♪ And last of all the trees do you know ♪ ♪ How to be ♪ ♪ Tell me please ♪ ♪ No more room she said for these ♪ ♪ The color's faded ♪ ♪ It's okay, remember ♪ ♪ I'm still holding you ♪ ♪ Still holding you ♪ (gentle guitar strumming) - "Perseus" was composed about the Perseus meteor shower.

It's the most incredible experience.

I tried to capture the sound of the stars like in the harmonics at the beginning the opening theme is actually stars just starting.

And then as the piece progresses it picks up tempo in the middle section is quite fast.

And that's like at the full height of the of the meteor shower, it ends up slowing back down.

And then you hear the theme, come back with the harmonics.

And then towards the end of the song I do the thing where I'm doing the harmonics and then I'm doing trills against it at the same time.

So the idea with that is like the bright heads of the meteors and then the remaining streaks of the sky behind it.

So the trills are the streaks and the harmonics are the actual bright stars.

(gentle guitar strumming) ♪ I think it was a Monday ♪ ♪ It might've been a Tuesday ♪ ♪ The details I really don't know ♪ ♪ All I remember the screams from December ♪ ♪ When everything was covered in wet snow ♪ ♪ A blast from the past ♪ ♪ We knew it wouldn't last ♪ ♪ But no one could tell us so ♪ ♪ The devil, he would laugh ♪ ♪ As she would cross his path ♪ ♪ Before he would drag away her soul ♪ ♪ Well, she was a girl ♪ ♪ She was only 16 when she left her dear father's estate ♪ ♪ Well, she left with some man ♪ ♪ Oh, he promised the world ♪ ♪ Yes, he swore he would give her his name ♪ ♪ Oh, well, no one ♪ ♪ Nobody noes ♪ ♪ The proof is in heaven ♪ ♪ We're nobody goes ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Well a man with the plan ♪ ♪ Yes, she would hold her hand ♪ ♪ And he told her that she was his own ♪ ♪ And the girl she would not ♪ ♪ She knew what she'd done ♪ ♪ Or how did I get so far from home?

♪ ♪ Oh, well, no one ♪ ♪ Nobody knows ♪ ♪ The truth is in heaven ♪ ♪ We're nobody goes ♪ ♪ Oh no, no ♪ ♪ No one ♪ ♪ Nobody knows ♪ ♪ The proof is in heaven ♪ ♪ When nobody goes ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ The girl she would cry as he laid by her side ♪ ♪ And she'd go to a place in her head ♪ ♪ And her father would weep as he laid down to sleep ♪ ♪ Was there enough that I could have said?

♪ ♪ Oh, well, no one ♪ ♪ Nobody knows ♪ ♪ The proof is in heaven ♪ ♪ Where nobody goes ♪ ♪ Oh no, no ♪ ♪ No one ♪ ♪ Nobody knows ♪ ♪ The proof is in heaven ♪ ♪ Where nobody goes ♪ ♪ Nobody goes ♪ ♪ No ♪ ♪ I think it was a Monday ♪ ♪ It might've been a Tuesday ♪ ♪ It really doesn't matter either way ♪ ♪ All I remember the screams from December ♪ ♪ When they had found her in the frozen lake ♪ - I think every musician and songwriter can say that it writing comes in all forms and sometimes you just don't know when it's going to happen.

Sometimes it happens all the time.

Sometimes it doesn't happen for years.

So "December" was actually a song that I wrote in 10 minutes.

And I originally intended on writing a hip hop song, just for fun.

And it did not come out that way.

You just never know how it's going to happen or when it's going to happen.

At least for me.

(upbeat guitar strumming) ♪ I've been running around in circles all day ♪ ♪ But still I can't find my place ♪ ♪ And I can only pretend ♪ ♪ Like this has an end ♪ ♪ But the truth is I admire the chase ♪ ♪ It's solid like a rock, I look to the clock ♪ ♪ Yeah, take me but leave back my name ♪ ♪ And I'll never think twice ♪ ♪ Of shutting the light ♪ ♪ Cause in darkness there's always a flame ♪ ♪ And I'll go home ♪ ♪ Home ♪ ♪ Cause I'll go, I'm not prepared ♪ ♪ And I know ♪ ♪ Yeah, yes, I know ♪ ♪ Though I leave, I'll always be here ♪ ♪ I can never look up ♪ ♪ With him looking down from a cross ♪ ♪ His body has bled ♪ ♪ I can only pretend that he is a friend ♪ ♪ But the truth is it's all in my head ♪ ♪ It's solid like a rock ♪ ♪ I scream at the clock ♪ ♪ Yeah, take me but leave back my shame ♪ ♪ And I'll never think twice about fighting the light ♪ ♪ Cause in darkness there's always a flame ♪ ♪ And I'll go ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Yes, I'll go, but I'm not prepared ♪ ♪ And I know, yeah, yes I know ♪ ♪ Though I leave, I'll always be here ♪ ♪ And I'll go ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Yes I'll go but I'm not prepared ♪ ♪ And I know, yeah, yes I know ♪ ♪ Though I leave, I'll always be here ♪ ♪ Though I leave, I'll always be here ♪ ♪ Yes I'll leave but I'll always be here ♪ ♪ A ghost dispute and a soul set free ♪ ♪ Found his place in the color green ♪ ♪ On to a bedroom ♪ ♪ A movie scene ♪ ♪ There's just too of us ♪ ♪ Yeah, there's just two of us ♪ ♪ In between ♪ ♪ I was always told it would be this hard ♪ ♪ You fight to live and it will leave you scarred ♪ ♪ Take all my income, it's all I got ♪ ♪ And I'll be loving you ♪ ♪ Yeah, I'll be loving you ♪ ♪ Come the fall ♪ ♪ Come on light and shine my way ♪ ♪ Come on love and make me pay ♪ ♪ Make me your better friend ♪ ♪ I'll make you stay ♪ ♪ And I'll keep loving you like ♪ ♪ Yeah, I'll be loving you like ♪ ♪ Our loving was the same ♪ - It comes off like a love song, but it's almost a biographical.

The opening line, "a ghost dispute and a soul set free."

I saw ghosts when I was a kid in my bedroom and he was glowing green and ghost dispute and a soul set free, found his place in the color green on to a bedroom, a movie scene where there's just two of us in between.

You could interpret that as a love song though but it's, it was totally like spooky ghost.

(gentle guitar strumming) ♪ Travel fast from a frantic past ♪ ♪ Before my mind comes unglued ♪ ♪ Truth form, beyond you knows this harm ♪ ♪ A montage of moods ♪ ♪ Backs of your shoes ♪ ♪ Walk away, you bait me, and I chase you down ♪ ♪ Burning paper crowns ♪ ♪ In the pews, there's candles all around ♪ ♪ And shadows in true ♪ ♪ Backs of your blues ♪ ♪ Oh lord, protect it from the poor ♪ ♪ Spirit not unlike a muse ♪ ♪ He played, he chose to lose ♪ ♪ It was inspired by the moon ♪ ♪ Half full, his spoon ♪ (upbeat rock music) - [Announcer] Go online to hear more music meet the artists and more visit ripbs.org.