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OCR02577 - *YES* Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 'Solace' *RESUB*


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Remixers: The Joker, 2p

Real Name: David L. Puga, Phil (I feel bad I don't know his last name)

Websites:

DLP: http://www.facebook.com/dlpmusic

2P: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...?bandID=441573

Forum #: 2P 4968

ReMix Info

Song Title: Solace

Game: Zelda Series (or whichever Zelda game you want)

Orig Song: Main Menu theme

In all my years playing Zelda, the Select theme has always been a source of peace & serenity. Nostalgia even. So, with Skyward Sword about to be released I was reminded me of just how awesome & serene the theme was and remembered a track I made a long time ago with a awesome lyricist named Phil (his last name escapes me). We ended up making a great winter themed hip hop track with an uplifting message. This is a resub from long ago, & hopefully it was worth the wait.

2p - I wrote the lyrics and performed them for this ReMix. The lyrics are in general about appreciating the people in your life that make you happy to be alive, and are told through the eyes of a university student living off campus. I wrote this at the beginning of my junior year, a year in which I was always busy and always tired. Sometimes you get overwhelmed or weighed down by school or work or whatever, but if you can just step away from it all with some good friends occasionally, then often you may feel like you got your footing right again and you're ready to keep it pushing. That's what these lyrics are about.

Lyrics

Outside on the corner where I caught the bus

Thinking in my head 'it's colder than I thought it was...'

Sometimes life is like that, and you just quiver your lips

Whisper a wish, hoping someone might give us deliverance

Now deliver this message: think I can live with this mess if

You could just give a few seconds to come and sit in my presence and yes

It is so precious, yes, it is a blessing, next

I'll attempt to express it with every heavy breath

Cause just to make it worth it, and just to make it real

You always made it perfect, and that's the way I feel

Sometimes we think too much, and we lose control

But it's not what you know, no it's who you know

Days that will not end, I'm sure you've had them too

Wishing you're still in bed, and yet we have to move

This is what passion do, this is what passion does

And so my plan is to, start sending back the love.

Snowflakes fell like a gift from the skies and

Teardrops swelled when I lifted my eyes and

It was surely just brightness that had 'em form in me

While the storm in the streets was adorning the trees, and

It clothed each branch with a layer of the purest snow

And this miracle was a little less than a year ago

Now summer's almost over, the weather's growing colder,

Approaching frozen sojourns - A Minnesota soldier.

Backpack on my shoulder days are shorter I spend most alone

Still growing older feeling lonesome though I'm close to home

On the city bus dozing both eyes closing on the open road

My soul is folding though I'm holding on and so it goes

And sometimes when it's dark, I look up at the stars

Think about how small we are, but at least we have hearts

Getting passed by speeding cars, on these streets of ours

I want to be the cause, for someone's grief to pause

Cause just to make it worth it, and just to make it real

You always made it perfect, and that's the way I feel

Sometimes we think too much, and we lose control

But it's not what you know, no it's who you know

Days that will not end, I'm sure you've had them too

Wishing you're still in bed, and yet we have to move

This is what passion do, this is what passion does

And so my plan is to, start sending back the love.

And I can't even get emotional, cause even though this road is negotiable, this' the road I

Chose, going solo feeling so low and I don't know the things I'm supposed to know but

So, I know some brothas that I roll with, in the same role with the same goal and they stay focused.

So just forget saying that you gon' quit, its a long way to go I'ma need y'all to go with.

I got your back like the shirt tag side, no matter what it is yes sir that's right

Even when you act like a dirt bag I, done been there before for sure that's why

I keep no accounts of flaws, keep holding out for y'all

People is all we are, you know I'm down by law

Cause just to make it worth it, just to make it real

You always made it perfect, and that's the way I feel

Sometimes we think too much, and we lose control

But it's not what you know, no it's who you know

Days that will not end, I'm sure you've had them too

Wishing you're still in bed, and yet we have to move

This is what passion do, this is what passion does

And so my plan is to, start sending back the love.

Cause just to make it worth it, and just to make it real

You always made it perfect, and that's the way I feel

Sometimes we think too much, and we lose control

So this Solace is for all the fools we know.

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This is undoubtedly a very conservative mix when you take away the vocals. While the beat didn't necessarily take very many risks, I appreciate the synergy it has with the vocals, which are performed wonderfully. There's a lot more nuance to the lyrical flow than I usually hear from rap submissions, so props to 2p for really bringing his A-game on this track, both on the performance and the lyrics!

Good stuff, I think people will enjoy this a lot despite the conservativeness.

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It's actually not as conservative as it appears, Wes. It reminded me a lot of Neblix's debut and similar songs in that it built vertically on a familiar riff. There's a lot of subtle additions like chord changes and harmonies. That was an excellent way to add depth because the focus here is the vocal and anything too crazy would distract from that.

I found myself liking this a lot, the source was well-suited to rap. Great lyrics too. The fast section got a little sloppy and could probably have used a few more takes (I know rapping that fast is damn hard), but overall, very enjoyable stuff.

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