We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Frozen in Amber

from Rage (Remastered 2022) by John Ludi

/

about

This is an old band song of mine (and credit to Greg Kutcher for the lead guitar melody line repeated throughout the song) that I have revamped...completely and utterly.

The lyrics are inspired by the book Oryx and Crake by the author Margaret Atwood. It was one of those books that didn't devastate me at first (having read TONS of science fiction in my youth), but it really stayed with me in ways that few other such books have.

My character is actually a genetic engineer who holds in his hand the key to resurrecting normal life upon a tainted planet.

He makes a choice.

lyrics

Frozen in Amber

Upon a beach stands a lonely figure
wore threadbare cloths adorn his weary frame.
Watching the waves break upon the shoreline,
pacing aimlessly and wincing from the pain

of his aching hands
from scrounging in the sand
to what extent he can

The shore is shorn of fish or bird or seaweed
just things that look like some mix of them all.
The man he sings a song from years forgotten
and shivers slightly as the rain begins to fall

upon the spoiled ground
no man or beast around
his is the only sound

He longs for touch, he longs for comfort
a friendly face...but he knows that no ones coming.

The man he takes a stone out of his pocket
and ruminates upon a world gone quickly wrong.
He stares upon the tiny things embedded
inside the amber he's carried for so long

The wrinkles on his skin
the pestilential wind
biological sin.

He holds the stone to hazy sunlight and sings his song...
the last living standard human.

He skips the stone upon the water watches it sink...
frozen in amber, insects.

credits

from Rage (Remastered 2022), released June 4, 2015

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

John Ludi image

John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

contact / help

Contact John Ludi

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

John Ludi recommends:

If you like John Ludi, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now