The Thirteenth Hour Podcast Musical Interlude – “Ending Credits” Song – “Searching for Forever”

Searching For Forever:

https://archive.org/download/Songs_201608/SearchingForForeverFinal.mp3

Since The Thirteenth Hour was a book inspired by 80s fantasy movies, I thought it needed its own ending theme to pay homage to the kinds of songs that always tended to play over the ending credits, often done by bands like Survivor and such.  You can check out the soundtrack page on instagram, this post, or the accompanying podcast on musical influences for the book (mostly new wave 80s synth stuff), but I was going for a song that had vague references to lyrics I recalled from songs from this genre plus the requisite synthesizers and electric guitars.

There are some references to the storyline itself (e.g. “searching for forever,” referring to Logan’s quest to find the secret to eternal life; “riding on a rainbow,” referring to Lightning’s trail of rainbow colored exhaust; and “aurora borealis,” a reference to the aurora Logan and Aurora see at the end of the book – which is an aurora australis, technically, but I took some artistic liberties with the lyrics since the syllables of borealis fit better in the song.)

I also wanted to make it a happy song, so the rhythm is fairly quick (about 125 beats/min).  You can listen to it above on on the main soundtrack page on bandcamp, where you can download a high quality mp3 for the backing track and the full version with vocals.

Lyrics 

Intro

C Am F G

 

 

Verse 1

C

Look into my eyes

                       Am

Can’t believe I found you

                                   C

We’ll find our way together

             F          G

In this crazy world

 

Verse 2

Fly into tomorrow

Riding on a rainbow

The future is ours

So hold on tight

 

Chorus

F                        G

Searching for forever

C                             Am

Who could have known 

F                          G

Searching for forever

C                      Am  F   G

I’d find it with you …

 

Verse 3

Look how far we’ve come now

Shoreline under night skies

Aurora borealis

Will guide us home

 

Verse 4

We’ll find our place yet

Dreaming is believing

We only need each other

So don’t let go

 

Chorus

Instrumental solo

Chorus x 2

 © 2016 Joshua Blum

I just finished this accompanying image to go with the song – watch it being created here!

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