" I wrote this song when I was 19. Man what a trip it's been. Over six years later and I've still found myself playing this thing live, and rerecording it for a FOURTH time properly. I guess it goes to show. Sometimes blind ambition and the will, to simply do something can carry things onward. Moonstrider, as it is known here is a very fantasy based track for SOH. The tune has some lyrics based around the movie "Ginger Snaps" and some metaphor based personal things I was feeling at the time. It has been strange to see it expand and evolve and essentially been a catchy song that has stood the test of time."
lyrics
Moonstrider
Music: Dillon
Lyrics: Dillon
Moonstrider
Carry on
Forevermore
I've got to get out
This deadly inner prison
For years it's been haunting
Foreboding premonitions
I'm damned, why though
Do I really know why?
Eons I have searched
Like lightning has cracked the sky
Behold! Solace
A snow white dove
Just then they appear
And rain arrows from above
It's on, chaos!
A war beneath the stars
One man verse the world
Internal holocaust
Scream from the depths of my soul
As I run, and run, and run
And hunt them like a wolf
Scream from the depths of my soul
As I hold on
And run forevermore
Alas carnage
Pours out my leaking heart
One last stand
As I flee into the woods
"He's dying," the trees talk
"They're coming,” the trees talk
As the light fades
I begin to make my move
Hordes charging
They scramble to the glade
As I begin to transform
They know they can't be saved
Flesh, limbs
Fly through the dancing sky
But as I kill the rest
Lyncanthropy pays its price
Scream from the depths of my soul
As I run, and run, and run
And hunt them like a wolf
Scream from the depths of my soul
As I hold on
And run forevermore
credits
released December 17, 2020
Music and Lyrics: Dillon
Recorded at Splatter Sound Studio by Pat Dillon
Mixed and Mastered by Fredrik Nordstrom