I mentioned yesterday that sketch8 was likely to grow a bit more somewhere in the middle.  That has happened this evening with this rather interesting section being shoe-horned in:

sketch8-3

Since the track had already turned into a bit of a progressive epic, I felt that a time signature change wouldn’t be out of place, and since the first two lines of lyrics for this section were a bit longer than the other four it seemed appropriate.  The lyrics are all about time in one way or another too, so maybe it did really need to be in there!

I don’t often write riffs to meet an already decided time signature, but I quite like this one.  The vocals will come in just after the harmony guitar part ends.  The (slightly odd) lyrics to this section are as follows:

Time is a road with many forks along the way

One for each decision made each and every day

The road ahead is darkened and hidden

The path behind beyond our grasp

Memories still rise unbidden

Haunting us from the past

So there you have it – a mixture of theoretical quantum physics, Matrix quotation and random imagery, all within six lines.  That isn’t strictly representative of the whole song – it is more or less divided into three sections which are connected by the general theme and not much else.  Those six lines make up the entire lyrics for part 2, which is the shortest part.