This is a giant collab for the SoundCloud Heroes' August Road Trip Collab. Here:
blog.soundcloud.com/2012/08/07/hero…-collaboration/
All lyrics, production, mixing, and mastering were by yours truly (Ben Z) with edited/chopped/quantized stems from the following SoundClouders...
Vocal sample “on the road”: @universoulove
Vocal scat/singing: @monicadockery
Synth&Bass stem: @one_hello_world
Guitar stem: @zefora
Cicadas: @zefora
Car door beeping: @wahrk
Vocals (City names): @tea-leigh & @heidi-harris-1
Shoe taps & silverware (used as percussion): @tea-leigh & @heidi-harris-1
Original field recordings by Ben Z include: Car Starting, Rain on gutters, Cars driving by on road, Car door closing (used as bass drum)
Lyrics
my Black Pearl my ride, my freedom I feel alive/
in the car with a friend at my side, don't know when, or like where we'll arrive/
this moment right now is so fine, calm and totally mine/
releasing the stress on my mind, looking at all of the stars in the sky/
I'm wondering where in the world all our time, and our dreams and our hopes and our peace we will find/
unwind, passenger seat reclined/
witness it all go by, I'm reading every sign/
watching and wishing and having a vision, of lifting up off the road as we fly good bye/