EtherReal / Ob3Lisk / Key
from CTRL / Obelisk / Candor
1991/2001/2006/2023
This is one of the earliest songs I wrote, dating back to 1991, before I even had the ability to sequence or record anything. I had to score it on staff paper to preserve it. It was not until 2001 where I rediscovered it to turn it into something. Prior to this, it did not have a title, but I was into VNV Nation and IDM at the time, so this iteration it what it became. The song original had a basic melody which I was ultimately unhappy with, thus it was not included for the 2001 track and my view of the song was that it was still unfinished.
A few years later, a band I was associated with called Ob3lisk was writing songs and I was assisting in the studio. I suggested they write lyrics for this and use it on the album, which is what we did. The song became Out Of Time and the structure of the song remained basically the same but with a proper melody line this time. I later remixed the album version, which was completely re-produced in the style of the band, into a version which more closely resembled the 2001 production I originally did. The lyrical content of this version was split into both male and female vocals making it a kind of duet.
While compiling the Candor album in 2022, I decided to redo this track, as I felt it was one of my strongest compositions. I used the original lyrics from the Ob3lisk version but rewrote some of them slightly to make the subject matter a little more acute.
Bloodwork
EtherReal
The original FastTracker version from 2001.
Credits
written, produced and arranged by EtherReal. ©2001 Woof Boom Productions.
Out Of Time
Ob3lisk
The re-written and re-recorded album version from Ob3lisk’s album.
Credits
written by Ether & Vlev. produced by Vlev. ©2006 Neutrino Music
Every Second Counts (Demo)
Key
This demo is the pre-cursor to the album version and has only one set of vocals.
Every Second Counts
Key
The final album version, with additional vocals by Oceanwings.
Credits
produced and arranged by Key with thanks to Tommy Gerencser. lyrics written by Tommy Gerencser and Key. © 2023 Keyfob Productions / Neutrino Music
Lyrics
A lesson to remember in this age
If you had those days to live again
What would you want to change
Every memory has turned into a scar
Will you see yourself in another light
Or will you remain in the dark
So far and away
What have you gained
Struggling so needlessly
You lose yourself again
I feel it increasing, beginning
There’s no truth in what you find
You’re left without a sign
And running out of time
If this revelation is turn denied
With another new beginning
Another chance go by
By embracing what you find within yourself
Only then can you discover
What others did foretell
So now break away
What have you gained
You’re disappointed endlessly
And lose yourself again
This feeling is growing within me
There’s no truth in what you find
And left without a sign
You’re running out of time
So just take my hand
Don’t you understand
We’re running of time
We’re lost anyway
What have we gained
What happened to empathy
We lose ourselves again
I feel it increasing, beginning
No truth in what we find
We’re left without a sign
And running out of time
So just take my hand
Don’t you realize
We’re running of time
Just take my hand
You’ve got to realize
We’re running of time
And every second counts