Inspired by Clark's Top Selling western horror mystery novel “Dead Balance”, the music and lyrics of "River of Lost Souls" continues a spiritual journey that began with “Logan’s Lament” and “In My Dream” into a surreal shadow world where Grammys® Recording Academy Artist Gary Wayne Clark (Earamas®; Rise of the Chimera & Passage to Niburu) weaves his musical vision quest. The Ancient Ones believe that based on our deeds in this world, some spirits are imprisoned in a purgatory like existence between worlds, side by side, within multiple dimensions. When loved ones seeking atonement are taken too soon from this world and forced to cross over, part of their penitence leaves them trapped between worlds, desperately clinging to soul mates left behind. As their song of lover’s lament attempts to hold back the wheel of time, their eternal bond lingers in the ether of fleeting desperation. For now, they are but Wind Talkers, grasping for each other in the mist of dreams and those ephemeral moments the between the shadow and the light, between the iridescent hues of twilight and dawn. Native American proverbs teach us, that “Day and night can’t live together,” and “There can be no rainbow without our tears.” True, but I choose to believe that for some of us, “Dreams are the truth, until we awaken.” And as Henry David Thoreau opined, “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” I have to go with HDT on this one.. Credits Words, Music, Recording Engineering and Production by Gary Wayne Clark. Lead Guitar by Alexandra Nicole Clark. Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Drums, Vocals, Arapaho Spoken Words & SFX by Gary Wayne Clark. Percussion track by Shilo Stroman, recorded at the Downtown Artery, Ft. Collins, Colorado. Final Rendering with LANDR. Lyrics Your love has cast a spell on me It took every thing I had I can’t hide from my darker side Good intentions turn to bad They said our love was terminal But I whisper it’s untrue This love of ours is written in the stars Death can’t keep my heart from you In dreams we’ll live forever Where broken hearts are whole Restitution wash away my sins In a river of lost souls Yesterday I swore my love was true Now my words just echo back Holding on to our days bygone As the memories fade to black I hear a thousand voices Only one to me is true The love I send lingers in the wind Eternally for you In dreams we’ll live forever Where broken hearts are whole Restitution wash away my sins In a river of lost souls [Arapaho Prayer] Beehiiniisonoonibéíhin [Father of all] Cih'oonohooyobéi'ee [Watch over us!] Kookóu'unei(hii) [Please] Heetíh-néé'eesoo-' [We ask that it be so] Nohuusóho' [Amen] My heart is calling out to you My heart beats to your distant drum My heart forever is for you Eternity has just begun My heart is calling out to you My heart beats to your distant drum My heart forever is for you Eternity has just begun.. Cover Design Art and cover design by Gary Wayne Clark; some images licensed from Shutterstock. Biography Gary Wayne Clark is an Author, Grammy® Recording Academy Member and Poet that writes and records under the name Gary Wayne Clark, Gary Clark, and the band Earamas® & Earamas™. An engineer by training, a venture capitalist by trade, he is a storyteller at heart. The hallmark of his stories are critically acclaimed companion soundtracks, such as Rise of the Chimera and Passage to Niburu by his band Earamas®, and coming soon, Dead Balance, the soundtrack and film. His latest novel is an Amazon Top Ten Best Selling murder mystery / fantasy entitled "Dead Balance". When a haunting voice foretells impending deaths, an Arapahoe boy must unravel the ancient mystery of DeadRaven… before another body drops. When he’s not traveling among the Hopi and Navajo tribes to spin tall tales, he lives in the High Country of Colorado on his ranch with his wife, a Great Doodle named Neli, and the spirit of his shapeshifting interspecies translator, a telepathic Great Dane named Raz. You can explore more words, music and stories on his Artist Website. Musical Works include the Singles: • River of Lost Souls • In My Dream • Logan’s Lament • Day By Day Full-Length Albums: • Emonesia by Gary Clark • Passage to Niburu by Earamas™ • Rise of the Chimera by Earamas™ Literary Works include: • Dead Balance (Top Selling Mystery Novel) • Rise of the Chimera (SciFi Novel) • Passage to Niburi (Scifi Novel) • Emonesia (Interactive Musical iBook) • High Country Haiku: Summer (Poetry) • High Country Haiku: Winter (Poetry) Earamas® Previously, eclectic Texas blues artist Tommie Lee Bradley teamed with songwriters Gary Wayne Clark and Glen Dale Spreen (Earamas®) for the soulful Country ballad, "Lonely With Someone I Love". Breaking new musical ground in new media, his work Emonesia the Interactive iPad Version, is a multimedia iBook experience developed exclusively for the iPad by Gary Wayne Clark that transports the listener back to the days of a vinyl record experience. Complete with music, scrolling liner notes, lyrics, photo galleries, videos and pop outs for the songwriter’s personal notes, it’s an experience like a backstage All Access Pass to explore the songwriters’ world for each musical composition. Epilog.. Hoow-uusetee, heetce’nóóhobé3en [It is not done, I will see you again] ~gwc River of Lost Souls © 2017 Gary Wayne Clark, All Rights Reserved. Words, Music and Production registered with US Copyright Office & WGAWest (Writers Guild of America). Log Line Ethereal and surreal, River of Lost Souls is a haunting paramour’s dreamscape of evanescent textures, awakening the sentries of the heart with mystical Native American poetry interwoven among flutes, drums and neo-psychedelic guitar riffs that echo through the canyons of the mind like lost voices from another world -- Heetíh-néé'eesoo-'.