Rising Blue

Rising Blue - Helmet

00:00 / 06:20

Rising Blue - DBIAD

00:00 / 05:09

RisingBlue - Origin with Twitch

00:00 / 04:49

Rising Blue - vocal improv at Kath's

00:00 / 05:29

Rising Blue had two origins.

First it was an improvised jam with Tim and Tom Twiss back in 1980 - no words - just a groove and some harmonic colors that got recorded on a cassette. When I listened back I associated the jam with Blue Horizons - and that's as far as it went.

Through the next few years I played around with the idea and came to the title Rising Blue. i thought I could begin to see a song about Planet Earth. Through 1985 into 1986 I worked on it.

On the night of January 27-28, 1986 I stayed up all night working on a lyric - the lyric you see on this page. I walked to work at Footprints - a Birkenstock place - and heard the news of the Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion.

So I dedicate Rising Blue to the crew of the Challenger - and to their optimistic ideals - and to our beautiful planet Earth.

Rising Blue

Standing on this satellite

My footprints in the dust

Rising Blue

Rising Blue had two origins.

First it was an improvised jam with Tim and Tom Twiss back in 1980 - no words - just a groove and some harmonic colors that got recorded on a cassette. When I listened back I associated the jam with Blue Horizons - and that's as far as it went.

Through the next few years I played around with the idea and came to the title Rising Blue. i thought I could begin to see a song about Planet Earth. Through 1985 into 1986 I worked on it.

On the night of January 27-28, 1986 I stayed up all night working on a lyric - the lyric you see on this page. I walked to work at Footprints - a Birkenstock place - and heard the news of the Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion.

So I dedicate Rising Blue to the crew of the Challenger - and to their optimistic ideals - and to our beautiful planet Earth.

Rising Blue

Standing on this satellite

My footprints in the dust

Craters full of craters on a cold and lifeless moon

Gray horizons

Rising Blue

Standing here I've time to think

Of other times on other worlds

And strangers

Scattered in the dark

Just before the light

Waiting for the light

Millions of strangers whose light was the light of their world

And standing here with time to think

My heart goes out to those who saved

The living world that I see Rising Blue

Standing on this satellite

A spirit in the sky

A future with the stars

With deep deep roots in Mother Earth

So beautiful

Rising Blue

Rising Blue

Rising Blue had two origins.

First it was an improvised jam with Tim and Tom Twiss back in 1980 - no words - just a groove and some harmonic colors that got recorded on a cassette. When I listened back I associated the jam with Blue Horizons - and that's as far as it went.

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Through the next few years I played around with the idea and came to the title Rising Blue. i thought I could begin to see a song about Planet Earth. Through 1985 into 1986 I worked on it.

​

On the night of January 27-28, 1986 I stayed up all night working on a lyric - the lyric you see on this page. I walked to work at Footprints - a Birkenstock place - and heard the news of the Space Shuttle Challenger's explosion.

​

So I dedicate Rising Blue to the crew of the Challenger - and to their optimistic ideals - and to our beautiful planet Earth.

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Rising Blue

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Standing on this satellite

My footprints in the dust

Craters full of craters on a cold and lifeless moon

Gray horizons

Rising Blue

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Standing here I've time to think

Of other times on other worlds

And strangers

Scattered in the dark

Just before the light

Waiting for the light

Millions of strangers whose light was the light of their world

​

And standing here with time to think

My heart goes out to those who saved

The living world that I see Rising Blue

​

Standing on this satellite

A spirit in the sky

A future with the stars

With deep deep roots in Mother Earth

So beautiful

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Rising Blue

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