Fly by Ari Neufeld

This was written shortly after my son Matti was born. I had an obsession with the Ironman movie and was working on sketches for different inventive flying suits. Instead, I wrote this on a 109 yr old piano we only had room for in a turkey coup on our property. But Dave Mai and I found a Steinway to record on. He mic'd it with 13 high end microphones in the Bottega. And then brought in Scott Gamble and Brian Weibe to play the drums and bass. And Richard St Onge on cellos. And Jonathan Anderson on organs and guitars. A real labour of love. We then had plan to film a kickass music video involving a weather balloon over the salt flats of Utah, etc. But I got divorced instead. So nothing ever became of this marvellous creation. UNTIL NOW!!!

- Ari

Tracklist

1.	Fly	3:54

Lyrics

I have a reoccurring
Too fantastical
Realistic dream
That somehow I'm so high up above the clouds
And Black Sabbath serenades
The surreal gymnastics
Im blasting into space
Like the Ironman

And I don't know why
But I think that I can fly
High above the cumulous complexity
The sky an open cup for me
And I'm so high

Such adrenaline
Is dwindling
These precious hours of peace I live in
I'm so driven
By the human race
And this passion is an ocean
It's a magical love potion
Makes me dream
That I am actually
The Persian
Elliptical rippling sheen
And I'm surfing
On the trellis of the wind

And I don't know why
But I think that I could fly
High above the cumulous complexity
The sky an open cup for me
The recalcitrant electricity
Burning like fire in my arteries
And I'm so high'

And I think that I could fly

Credits

released November 10, 2019
Ari Neufeld, produced by Dave Mai and Jonathan Anderson

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