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Birth Rights II

by Gregory Francis and Adam McLean

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Demon on the Mountain Ten Commandments in the City of Lights Rise in the morning air Laws forgotten – reestablished in haste Hiding SIGNs inside a stare In communication with the endless Reich’s Their temptations out of sight One rises, to the others, in their eyes Forgotten systems inside Throw a shadow on the light Like a shadow across the sun Foundations crumble in the sky Like a father to his son No one else to answer why - An explanation solves a mystery - Science carved in stone - And in the image of them, we have created Each with their followers – Lost and Found Still far above The Den Below Wizards and Warlocks – Banshees and Fools Just the upper class cast for another show How many have risen in analogy As some are never seen? Growing stagnation technologically Systems deep inside redefine the one supreme Like a shadow across the sun Foundations crumble in the sky Like a father to his son No one else to answer why And on a mountain, hidden high above the eyes One stand behind the stone And know ye it was written that ye should know: Your Father is not alone! - and neither are we… - separate from Thee… All that stayed and took the lead and All that prayed away from greed All the faded warring seeds have Altered not a single deed In all the fray the books of greed Calmed the masses who believed A call belated; Adoring needs; Stalled the ending; Indeed There is a pressing winter underneath the summer of every life waiting to eclipse the current form, to supplant the forming structure No one dares where no one cares So who will stand with me against the Seraphim? “I WILL…” “…and I... and I… . . .. and I . … . . How many things happen that can not be So many things unseen Belief system discontinuity The beginning hides behind Fourteen billion years of debris Coronal mass ejections Humble worlds about to fry Haunted kingdoms of the sun True death angels in our skies Like a shadow across the sun Foundations crumble in the sky Like a father to his son No one else to answer why - We are greater than the sum of any equation - And in the image of them, we have created - A summit of souls – A valley’s spell - The DREAM lingers on into the day Dreamt and left in the winter of 1986 by Gregory. Resurrected by Adam, David, and Malachi in the winter of 2012 Two months before the end of the world, they say…
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DAWNING HOUR 07:21
The Dawning Hour In the early morning sunlight Thoughts racing through my head from last night The smoke in the air from lamplights Gives a haze to everything I see. In blind confusion, we burnt temples down And now we’ve no one else to blame but ourselves. - in this hour… For so many years through the ages Our people lived in cages (of the mind) We blamed the demigods for waging war And with each battle, we suffered more. Such an illusion, We let our hearts wide open We were played – just pieces in the game – - nothing more. - in this hour… - we are just an hour away….. But now we’ve opened our eyes; No more blind submission Somehow we can see through the eyes of a blind religion They’re tearing the walls of the temple down – Just an illusion – Moving together in communication A SIGN from the stars, it will be… …and we’re free….. They came to us from the sky Shining from above From a place beyond the sun – They took away the lies Of the Mountain Lord They brought daylight to the night – A promise from the Lights We’d not be lonely anymore They taught us not to fear the Dark – And in seven days A new temple rose up to the sky Pointing to the way from which they would return – They would return from which way to the way Return from the way they were pointing And now thousands of lives have come and gone Lessons soon forgotten Waves from the past flow through today Doing what your fathers did – You’re breaking the laws of the simple down Elemental confusion – A change in the weather – Tribulation – Blind from afar, it will be - in this hour… Dreamt and left in the winter of 1986 by Gregory. Resurrected by Adam, David, and Malachi in the winter of 2012 Two months before the end of the world, they say…
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DREAM of a Witches’ Sabbath A plan to lift him up from grace As beams of sun from place to place Shone throughout the forest all around All alone in a jungle breeze A sad man fell upon his knees And cried for one with which to share his life So a plead was made; A request fulfilled - - - A glassy black stare; A dare from Hell And sent to him the one to cast him out …and the End Times shall come to pass A kettle full of lies In a DREAM of a Witches’ Sabbath All fall to quick demise who fail to recognize the GUISE. Cold stone walls the rewarding end For the reapers of an age-old sin The original lust has still not gone away The Heights were plainly in their sights But they turned away in prideful spite To watch the Dreams of Dust be boiled away …and the End Times shall come to pass A kettle full of lies In a DREAM of a Witches’ Sabbath All fall to quick demise who fail to recognize the GUISE. “Oh, and they dare not recognize me this time…” Close your eyes and feel your way Gain everything and give it away I am awake the forest all around one to share his life one to cast him out Blind to all but what they see The original lust has still not gone away the Dreams of Dust boiled away but I am awake and I give it away Blind to all but what they see They spend their lives in misery They have touched the Hear of Sin and lost their way. Dreamt and left in the winter of 1986 by Gregory. Resurrected by Adam, David, and Malachi in the winter of 2012 Two months before the end of the world, they say…
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NETHERSONG 08:53
Nethersong Once in a great land far across the Nile A celebration for the Netherworld. And in a ring of pharaohs chanting song, Electric power sounded back And from the Circle singing for the dead, A dreaded name was released The Pharaohs died in the sight of Him Their cities fell to decay in a day From the Circle, a name came forth The Tear of Vissalage – The cries of fear The forests died into a desert plain Enslaved, they never had a chance – to see the light Caught up in the new world – He took control He built up temples to His name. In perfect shapes of power, they rose to the sky So many fell in His wake. But soon the balance fell - the time was wrong So many things that could not be Called back to the Netherworld – Logically His time is soon – His song returns - TECHNOLOGY - You know the nursery rhymes; you’ve done the readings You have seen the future in tea leaves You think sodium-chloride transferred across your scapular Will ward off evil spirits? I am here… BEHOLD I am the alter the only forgiving way I am the laughter of every child never saved I am an unwilling intrusion into your domain I’m the reason you falter I am another way Every age must pass away And surrender to decay Every pattern rearranged In quantum disarray we fade away Entangled with the strange In every life there will be that moment When the question of the end is at hand Back into the deep and realigned We never had a chance “We have suffered an Ancestral Domain Change” Dreamt and left in the winter of 1986 by Gregory. Resurrected by Adam, David, and Malachi in the winter of 2012 Two months before the end of the world, they say…
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PART II (1) 04:59
Part II On expedition through the desert lands In the light of the modern day sun Diplomatic confrontation – a treaty broken A test detected beneath the ground - DENIED The source of the outburst far beneath the sand Hidden below a pyramid Inspection begins – High-tech scrutiny Pinpointing the force far below - LEVELS: HIGH – Instrumentation reading life forces Deep in the Well of Souls Automatic translation – a signal conversion A readout on the screen – - what does it mean? Descending further through sacred corridors On the walls are the histories of time Mechanical eyes the first to see Into the tomb of ten-thousand years - WARNINGS INSCRIBED – No control room located – no computers or men Dust upon the lid of the tomb The origin located – the source undetermined An entity lies within! - REVIVED – Instrumentation reading life forces Deep in the Well of Souls Automatic translation – a signal conversion A readout on the screen – - See the face of a King – “Who will stand with me against the seraphim?” “I WILL…” Automatic translation, a signal conversion Something never seen before Dreamt and left in the winter of 1986 by Gregory. Resurrected by Adam, David, and Malachi in the winter of 2012 Two months before the end of the world, they say…
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PART II (2) 05:30
Part II On expedition through the desert lands In the light of the modern day sun Diplomatic confrontation – a treaty broken A test detected beneath the ground - DENIED The source of the outburst far beneath the sand Hidden below a pyramid Inspection begins – High-tech scrutiny Pinpointing the force far below - LEVELS: HIGH – Instrumentation reading life forces Deep in the Well of Souls Automatic translation – a signal conversion A readout on the screen – - what does it mean? Descending further through sacred corridors On the walls are the histories of time Mechanical eyes the first to see Into the tomb of ten-thousand years - WARNINGS INSCRIBED – No control room located – no computers or men Dust upon the lid of the tomb The origin located – the source undetermined An entity lies within! - REVIVED – Instrumentation reading life forces Deep in the Well of Souls Automatic translation – a signal conversion A readout on the screen – - See the face of a King – “Who will stand with me against the seraphim?” “I WILL…” Automatic translation, a signal conversion Something never seen before Dreamt and left in the winter of 1986 by Gregory. Resurrected by Adam, David, and Malachi in the winter of 2012 Two months before the end of the world, they say…
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about

What can I say that Gregory did not already on his Bandcamp page? I can say this... this collection of songs is part of the reason I make music. Whether Gregory knew it or not at the time, Birth Rights II and the original Birth Rights I release from 1986 helped shaped my musical sensibilities. They still do...

Birth Rights I sparked my imagination with concepts that reached beyond science fiction and cast out my thoughts to the stars...

After Birth Rights I was released all those years ago, Gregory had actually made a very rough live recording of the Birth Rights II tracks with only a drummer (Ross Howard) in a badly soundproofed room so that he would have a reference for vocals and bass and leads, etc. for when he would later enter the recording studio. I some how ended up with a copy of that cassette. Another drummer (Tony Estrada) and I learned all of this Birth Rights material, both BR I and BR II. So, I knew the material pretty well when Gregory invited me into the studio to throw down some quick leads on the rough tracks...

Somewhere along the way, the rough tracks never got around to being finished. There were a couple of cassette copies, but that was all. Life began marching on, and Birth Rights II was never completed.

Then, a couple of years ago while experimenting with some equipment, I started playing some of these old tunes. I stumbled upon an old cassette and transferred them to mp3 files and surprised Gregory, David and Malachi. I had spent all this time always wanting to hear this music fully produced and complete. And even stumbling onto the old cassette of rough demos was not enough...

At this time, I also had acquired a lovely old ADA MP-1 which was the preamp we had originally tried to record the rough demos with. Being a much better engineer that I was then, I started playing these old tunes through the MP-1 to see what they should have sounded like back in the late 80's. It sounded good. Curiosity got the best of me, so I started doing the drums with the Alesis SR-16 - pretty much the same machine that Gregory did the original drums with back in the day. So, a bit more curiosity later, and I wondered what the keyboards would sound like... and then suddenly, Demon on the Mountain was done except for lead guitars and vocals. I played it for David and he pretty much demanded that I send it to Gregory...

The rest, as they say, is history... one song after the next poured out...

So you are listening to a project that started back in 1986 and has been "rebooted" to today. It has been an honor to take what my imagination made of this music from some rough demos 20 + years ago and make these songs fully realized into the digital medium today.... my imagination still soars...


Original artwork by Gregory Francis.

credits

released November 3, 1964

All songs written and conceived by Gregory Francis.

Produced by Malachi Francis, David McLean, Gregory Francis and Adam McLean.

All voices by Gregory Francis.

All instruments and sound by Adam McLean. Lead guitars by Adam McLean, Malachi Francis and David McLean.

Guitars: Diamond by Aria with EMG 85 into the ADA MP-1 and Microcab. Lead guitars ISP Theta Preamp using on board cabinet simulator.

Clean guitars: Ibanez semi-hollow with EMG HAX and HA through Lexicon MPX-100.

Drums: Alesis SR-16 and elbow grease with a touch of BBE.

Keyboards: EMU Proteus 2000, Planet Earth and Virtuoso.

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