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Sleep, innocent dreamer
Om Om Om
Sleep, innocent dreamer
Om Om Om |
Peter Cross is the songwriter, the singer, the arranger, and the producer.
Commentary:
This is my classic lullaby. It is an all too true story about the
last night I spent with my two precious boys, Jason and Alex, who were only 10 and 7 years
old when they were kidnapped by Mona. On Sunday night, May 4, 1994, I put my boys to
sleep as I always did, singing them songs and stroking their hair until they drifted away.
When I woke up on Monday morning, May 5th, they were gone. Innocent Dreamer
is pure Greek tragedy in terms of falling from the greatest Heavenly height into the depths
of Hell. It stands alone as a piece of raw feeling, true deprivation and soul searing
loneliness which constitute Great Agony, and it's full of real emotion based on a real life
experience that few people have undergone and that no songwriter has ever touched.
And that's what makes it different from any other song that's ever been written.
Innocent Dreamer is the only Crossfire song on this site that was never
finished to perfection because the time and money simply ran out at that point. The
vocal tracks in the first verse could have used some corrections, and there would have been
some more hauntingly beautiful string tracks and some lead guitar thrown in for textural
variation and excitement. But the song has some great key changes, and its subject
matter is so dear to my heart that it's up here anyway regardless of it being short of
recording perfection. Besides, it's a heartbreakingly beautiful and original
lullaby and I sang my heart out in the "Om - come on home" portions of the song.
Have you ever heard an Om used like this before? I think that alone is worth listening to.
Music, lyrics, text, and web page design copyright 1996 © Peter Cross
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