The United Dictators Of Mars - SONG - TORROD Fighting For Life

Fighting For Life

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Music: Mody/Guter, Words: Mody

The sands are high the breeze is low the desert sun will never go. I only dream of rain and snow, pleasures I will never know. I travel on I try to live where life is low. My skin is dry my body is bare. I'm moving on I don't know where. It isn't right, it isn't fair I don't know why they left me there. I try to survive but death's in the air.

I was a King but I couldn't fight. They killed my queen and my people at night. They brought me here to die in fear. Now they rule wrong over right.

I'm fighting for Life

I dream away it makes me cry I only want to be alive. So much to do before I die I seem to let it all go bye. Was it my fate? I wonder why. Vicarious thoughts in my mind, secrets I have left behind. Gold and glory it was mine a touch of love a taste wine. The only memories left of better times.

My kingdom's in hell and they laugh and they sigh. They rule not in love but in muscle and might. I hear the song, the day is gone. I see no end to the night.

My guitar sound BLOWS! This song was one of my oldest, maybe the oldest in this type of band format dating back to 1983. It's kind of a rip off of Queensryche's Night Rider. Well, not kind of, I ripped off Queensryche's Night Rider. Well, not ripped off, it was influenced and mutated. My friend Bryan Guter who taught me how to play rock guitar smoothed out the song for me in the verse and chorus arrangements. I just realized now that the verse and chorus are the same piece, I wonder if I've ever done that again. Lyrically I'm in early Queensryche mode with the kings and kingdoms theme but adding a touch of Iron Maiden by cramming as many words in as I can. I remember in english vocabulary class reviewing the word and meaning to "vicarious" and working hard to arrange that in the lyrics. Again, this is pretty much all my melody work but Jeff will have to embellish who came up the ascending 3 part harmony in the chorus. He may have been singing the harmony the entire time and I recommnded he build to it. But if he says it's his idea then let him have it- it's a Torrod song, he can take all the credit he wants.

For some reason, I have always liked this song. Until now, I had pretty much forgotten about it. The vocal harmonies are actually something which Tom and I worked on together. Some of it was through trial and error or process of elimination, if you will. I had not realized that Tom been so heavily influenced by the Q'ryche Night Rider song for this piece until now. I knew he was heavily influenced by them as well as Priest & Maiden but never did I know this song carried such heavy influence as Tom has noted. I actually like Fighting For Life better than I do Never Fade. Again, another of my least favorite vocal performances in the studio.

Tom's Rebuttle: Ahem (throat clear). Your performance?? How could you not mention you wiggin' out when Andy and I came back from mixing this with Bob Yauger. You had to work and couldn't come. You were so unhappy with the sound of your voice you wanted to spend your own money to go back and and remix. Would you like a Jeff 's Rebuttle here?

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