DESCRIPTION:
Track #3 - "Friends" from the album "Angels"

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Lyrics:

well, if your stars don't shine,
your heaven's closed and you feel alone,
turn around and head home,
'cause there's nowhere left to go...
but if you've got no home
and no one knows that you're on your own,
play this song and you'll know
that you'll never be alone...

so many times, so many days,
so many ways, so many hearts've been broken...
so many times I've said I'd go, but I don't...
we've got to go, we've got to bring our friends together,
we've got to go, we've gotta bring them here...

let it go, 'cause it's here, now...

so, come with us, see the road,
I need you here tonight.
let it go, let it be,
I need you here in heaven.
who's to say where we go,
and who's to bring us home?
when we go, when we sing,
you'll be there with me...

so, if your stars don't shine,
your heaven's closed and you're on your own,
play this song and you'll know
that you'll never be alone...




ALBUM CREDITS

MENRVA REALM:

Rob Evan -- all lead vocals, backup vocals
Laurian (Ianu) Mohai -- all lead and rhythm guitars, acoustic guitar (7--9), bass (2), electric sitar (9)

GUEST MUSICIANS:

Howard Helm -- piano & other keyboards
Mark Prator -- drums
Douglas Bailey -- bass (1,3--9)
Tom Morris -- acoustic guitars (8), percussion (1,2,3,8,9), backup vocals (5)
Jim Morris -- acoustic guitars (1,3--7,9), electric sitar (5)
Joe Lala -- percussion (4,6,7)
Jack Wilkins -- saxophone (4)
Erin Conley -- backup vocals (6)

Strings:

Violin I: Jeff Multer, Concertmaster (1,9), Lei Liu, Second Assistant Concertmaster (1,3--5,7--9), Sarah Shellman, Principal Second (1,9), Joni Roos (1,9), Fiona Lofthouse (1,9), Oleg Geyer (1,9)
Violin II: Natasha Bazhanov (1,9), Eric Nordstrom (1,9), Mary Corbett (1,9), David Dillingham (1,9), William Kang (3--5,7,8)
Viola: Ken Kwo (1,9), Alison Heydt (1,9), Karen Dumke (1,3--5,7--9)
Cello: Lowell Adams, Assistant Principal (1,3--5,7--9), Laura Smith (1, 9)
Bass: Dee Moses, Principal (1,3,9)
Conductors: Chuck Owen (1,9), David Stamps (3--5,7,8)

All music written by Laurian Mohai and Rodney Thomas)
(except 6 -- Laurian Mohai, Jesse Morris, Rodney Thomas)


All lyrics written by Rodney Thomas (except 6 -- Jesse Morris)
Lyrical arrangements by Rob Evan (1,4,5,7,9)

String arrangements by Chuck Owen (1,9) and Laurian Mohai (3--5,7,8)
All keyboards arrangements by Howard Helm and Tom Morris (with contributions by Eric Roberts on 3,4,8,9)

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Tom Morris
Mastered by Jim Morris
Assistant Engineers: Sean Burnett and Jason Blackerby

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Morrisound Recording Studios, Tampa, FL, USA

All artwork: © Laurian Mohai
Photo credits and copyrights: Laurian Mohai, Ectronia Records, Fadil Berisha

Sound Recording Copyrights: © Ectronia Records


(upload courtesy of Ectronia Records)