Name: The Dance
Duration: P00H04M08S
Description: Guest songwriter: Rob Patterson, who collaborated with me on the song structure and music. This song was originally written in 2001, and went on to a couple of different iterations in different bands. This is the version I'm put together in 2016, with most of the guitar and drum tracks recorded and sequenced in 2010-2012.

The Dance

from Extra Chaos by Eddie Rifkind

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Guest songwriter: Rob Patterson, who collaborated with me on the song structure and music. This song was originally written in 2001, and went on to a couple of different iterations in different bands. This is the version I'm put together in 2016, with most of the guitar and drum tracks recorded and sequenced in 2010-2012.

lyrics

You and I
and many seasons
play the game like simpletons

years and centuries of reasons
not to look back, feel, or see

The old emotions purify
The old emotions clarify
The old emotions terrify me
The ghost dances with me

elegant in scarified skin
so simple in complexity
the joke is a rich
tapestry

blending in single harmony
a labyrinth of thought
is my companion, is
my drug now

an ancient, dry laugh
speaks of many seasons
leaf after leaf until
death is the finished book

so savor this
and hold it fast
because you are here
and time is there

elegant in scarified skin
so simple in complexity
the joke is a rich
tapestry

blending in single harmony
a labyrinth of thought
is my companion, is
my drug now

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from Extra Chaos, released December 12, 2016

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Eddie Rifkind

Eddie Rifkind is a guitar pedal builder, artist and musician in San Francisco. His music varies widely in style, and has been compared to everyone from Machines of Loving Grace to David Bowie to KMFDM to Led Zeppelin to Dead Can Dance to Killing Joke, drawing from those and other influences from eclectic and inspired rock, post-rock, post-punk, industrial, metal, blues and classical sources. ... more

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