Name: Limitations
Duration: P00H08M56S
Description: This one surprised me. I didn't think I was capable of the chamber music-ish instrumental bits. There is a restraint and delicacy that I tend to not always be able to pull off, being kind of a hamfisted hack on some levels. Lyrically it is more of my perky outlook on our species...I do like the poetry of it.

Limitations

from The Quiet Earth Orchestra by John Ludi (as The Quiet Earth Orchestra)

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This one surprised me. I didn't think I was capable of the chamber music-ish instrumental bits. There is a restraint and delicacy that I tend to not always be able to pull off, being kind of a hamfisted hack on some levels. Lyrically it is more of my perky outlook on our species...I do like the poetry of it.

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LIMITATIONS

I am merely human, trying to endeavor.
I am limitations, I am fur and feathers.
And I yearn to grow beyond my means,
far too primitive to achieve my dreams.

To ascend to failure, is this mankind's station?
To climb up then falter, evolution wasted.
And I beg to know with a primate's tools,
with a hairy heart chained by nature's rules.

Afraid stands each simian,
clad in tragic artifice of Byzantine proportions, alone.
What foul legacy does endless warfare,
hatred, and slavery bestow?
All born from history's memory: tempest...tragedy..
.a past that can't be disowned.
So what transcendence can pay the penance
each child of man must own?

It's an endless cycle as our reserve crumbles.
Animals that lash out, primal steps that stumble.
We create a world to torment our gods,
and narrow our views to increase our odds.

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from The Quiet Earth Orchestra, released February 19, 2008
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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

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