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(Top 5 Award)Seven-Eleven Halo[Theremin:Remix]

[Disc A: Wordless Female Vocalese — Mary Mayo style soprano — celestial "ahh" choir — crooning lead] [Disc B: Bongos — Congas — Wurlitzer Side Man rhythm box — hand percussion only] [Disc C: Theremin — Solovox — Ondioline — Vibraphone — Marimba — Celeste — Bass Clarinet — Flute — Lush Tremolo Strings] [Disc D: Tropical night ambience — distant bird calls — tape echo tails — motel neon hum — cosmic wind] Song: [Intro: Space Age Pop, lounge swing, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, theremin, vibraphone, marimba, strings, wordless vocalese, pp→mp] (Soft bird calls drifting through plate reverb) Ahhhhh... Ah-ahhhh... Ooooooh... The stars hang low above the highway. Neon halos over midnight aisles. A motel sign flickers somewhere beyond memory. [Hook/Reprieve: Exotica, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, female vocalese, theremin glides, vibraphone, mp] "Can't run... Can't run... Can't run from within..." [Verse 1: Space Age Pop, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, bass clarinet, celeste, bongos, vibraphone, mp] Astral projection Honed her mind like a weapon Starry eyes turned to heaven Lost herself at the seven eleven Fluorescent lights and questions Searching aisles for a lesson Something in her chest kept pressing Like a second resurrection [Pre-Chorus 1: Exotica Lounge, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, Ondioline, flute, strings, mf] She said she on that real shit Can you feel it Haven't felt it since I was a kid Sippin truth from the id My crown got popped like a lid Couldn't stop it, I hid But you can't run from within [Hook/Reprieve: Space Age Pop, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, female vocalese, theremin, vibraphone, mf] "Can't run... Can't run... Can't run from within..." (Female choir answers) "Within..." "Within..." [Chorus 1: Exotica Orchestra, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, E♭ major, strings, vibraphone, marimba, female choir, ff] Same river different name Same soul different frame You keep coming back the same Till you remember why you came Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light was never lost You just forgot to let it in [Bridge: Space Age Mysticism, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, theremin, bass clarinet, Solovox, mp] (Theremin glides overhead) Time skip Mind slippin again You forgot your mission again Born into the same old skin Different face same origin Searching outside What lives within You been here before You'll be here again [Hook/Reprieve: Exotica Lounge, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, vocalese choir, vibraphone, mf] "Can't run... Can't run... Can't run from within..." [Verse 2: Space Age Pop, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, marimba, bongos, bass clarinet, strings, mf] Gravity center Anti reality bender She cracked the code Returned to sender Every life she failed to remember Every flame reduced to ember Rises back in late December Rises back [Pre-Chorus 2: Lounge Orchestra, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, C minor, flute, celeste, Ondioline, mf→f] Government made fractals Intergalactic particles of matter Every truth they tried to scatter Lives inside her Always had her Crown intact They couldn't shatter What was never theirs to have her [Chorus 2: Space Age Pop, straight, 84 BPM, 4/4, E♭ major, full orchestra, female choir, theremin counterline, ff] Same river different name Same soul different frame You keep coming back the same Till you remember why you came Can't run Can't run Can't run from within The light was never lost You just forgot to let it in [Outro - D.S. al Coda: Exotica Ballad, rallentando, 84→72 BPM, 4/4, E♭ major, theremin, strings, vocalese, pp] Can't run Can't run Can't run from within She remembered She remembered What she'd always been Not the body Not the lesson Not the seven eleven Just the light Just the light Just the light Turned back toward heaven (Female vocalese rises) Ahhhhh... Ooooooh... Ahhhhh... (Theremin glides upward into tape echo) [Outro - Coda] [Bird calls. Celeste. Vibraphone. One last theremin note disappearing into the stars.]