Weekly Ludi #21
Weekly Ludi #21 is an extended “Symphonic Prog” piece with my usual perky and optimistic lyrical take about the human condition. It’s from my album The Quiet Earth Orchestra.
https://soundcloud.com/john-ludi/limitations-by-john-ludi-as-the-quiet-earth-orchestra
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.