[Intro] [ABSOLUTE SILENCE] [THE SONG STARTS WITH ONLY THE SHARP, SIZZLING HI-HAT PATTERN] [THE FAMOUS THREE-NOTE DEEP BASSLINE DROPS IN, HYPNOTIC AND SLOW] [THE WAH-WAH ELECTRIC GUITAR STARTS ITS CRYING, RHYTHMIC SCRATCHING: "CHUKU-CHUKU"] [A REVERB-DRENCHED, LONELY TRUMPET PLAYS A HAUNTING, BLUESY MELODY] [DEEP, DÜSTERE CELLOS AND STRINGS SWELL SLOWLY, BUILDING IMMENSE TENSION] [THIS HYPNOTIC INSTRUMENTAL DRIVES FOR 45 SECONDS WITHOUT ANY CHANGE] [Verse 1] [First Male Voice - Deep, serious, talking close to the microphone] It was the fith of September... [THE BASS PUMPS STEADY] ...that’s a day I’ll always recall. 'Cause that was the day... the dark clouds started to fall. [Second Male Voice - Higher, gritty, singing with tension] I stood by the shoreline, looking out into the gray, And I asked my mother, why did he walk away? [THE WAH-WAH GUITAR WHINES LOUDLY] I said: "Hey Mama, is it true what the old folks say? That he loved the ocean... more than he loved to stay?" [Chorus - THE HAUNTING GROUP HARMONY – DEEP AND UNSTOPPABLE] [THE STRINGS RISE WITH MAJESTIC, DARK DRAMA – NO DRUM CHANGE, PURE HYPNOTIC FLOW] [Full Vocal Group Choir]: Oh, Mapa was a rolling stone... [CHOIR IN HARMONY: "Rolling stone..."] Wherever she laid her hat that was his home! And when she died... [SUDDEN BRASS ACCENT] ...all she left us was alone! Yeah, Mapa was a rolling stone, oh yeah, Living his life inside the ocean zone! [Interlude] [THE VOCALS STOP ABRUPTLY] [THE HYPNOTIC TRUMPET AND MOODY STRINGS TAKE OVER THE DEEP GROOVE AGAIN] [Verse 2] [Third Male Voice - Very deep, resonant Bass voice, dropping like thunder] Hey Mama... [THE HI-HAT SIZZLES] ...folks say he was a dreamer of the night. They say he’d sit by the docks, until the morning light. [Fourth Male Voice - High, emotional, raspy soul belt] And I heard he liked the whiskey, liked to talk to the wind, Never looking back at the places where he’d been! [THE STRINGS PLUCK SHORT RHYTHMIC NOTES] Tell me Mama, did he ever think of you and me? Or was his only master... the wild and rolling sea? [Chorus - Haunting Group Harmony] [FULL ORCHESTRAL PSYCHEDELIC SOUL POWER – HEAVY LOW-END PUNCH] [Full Vocal Group Choir]: Oh, Mapa was a rolling stone... [CHOIR: "Rolling stone..."] Wherever she laid her hat that was his home! And when she died... all she left us was alone! Yeah, Mapa was a rolling stone, oh yeah, Living his life inside the ocean zone! [Instrumental Break - The Cinematic Whitfield-Style Jam] [THE VOCALS STOP – THE HYPNOTIC BEAT LOOPS REMORSELESSLY] [STAGE 1: THE WAH-WAH GUITAR TAKES THE LEAD WITH FIERY, SPACE-Y PSYCHEDELIC ACCENTS] [STAGE 2: THE REVERB-TRUMPET AND THE DRAMATIC STRINGS ACCELERATE THE EMOTIONAL TENSION] [THE DEEP BASSLINE KEEPS THE FEET ZUCKEN IN A SLOW, MESMERIZING TRANCE] [Verse 3] [First Male Voice - Returning to the serious, gritty tone] Now the fire is burning... down on the cold, wet sand. We’re holding the blanket, far away from that land. [Second Male Voice - Climbing up the scale with pure grit] We broke the cycle, baby, we found our own sweet peace, Where the rhythm of the water makes the old pain cease! [THE CHOIR BACKS WITH DEEP, HAUNTING "UMMM-HMMM" HUMMING] Let the music take the ghosts of the past away, We're dancing in the dark... until the break of day! [Chorus - Extended Final Master Version] [MAXIMUM TENSION RELEASE – ALL VOICES AND CRYING TRUMPET IN PERFECT SOUL URGEWALT] [Full Vocal Group Choir]: Oh, Mapa was a rolling stone... [CHOIR: "Rolling stone..."] Wherever she laid her hat that was his home! And when she died... all she left us was alone! Yeah, Mapa was a rolling stone, oh yeah, Living his life inside the ocean zone! [Outro - The Deep Mesmerizing Fadeout] [THE HYPNOTIC THREE-NOTE BASS AND SIZZLING HI-HAT LOOP ENDLESSLY INTO THE DISTANCE] [THE WAH-WAH GUITAR AND MOODY STRINGS INTERTWINE IN A SLOW FADE] [Different group members ad-libbing airily and deep]: "Yeah, a rolling stone... oh, he was rolling... look at that sea, mama... just a rolling stone... leaving us all alone... into the night... yeah..." [THE MUSIC GRADUALLY FADES OUT INTO THE ABSOLUTE MASTER SILENCE]
