Moontide

by Starveya

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“Moontide” is inspired by Bob Dylan’s take on folk music, particularly the historic, "My Back Pages". STARVEYA guitarist and primary songwriter Aaron Martinez, adds that the subject matter of the song was originally inspired by the tragic death of Pink Floyd’s Syd Barret. Gradually, the focus shifted to include all people throughout the millennia that were considered crazy or foolish in their own time, but later looked back on as geniuses, innovators and prophets. “A madman today is just a hero tomorrow” and “the saviors, they never get saved” are a few lyrics from “Moontide” that illustrate the lives of such visionaries as Giordano Bruno, Galileo, Socrates and Jesus Christ, who had the misfortune of being ahead of their times, and whose importance in history is only fully realized posthumously.

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Never will I ever dare claim to be the wise man we hear yet the fool we all see.
Oh should I go blind, would you still play the part of an orphan at mind and a child at heart.
Blessed is he who has lived to tell of a dream to us all and a dreamer as well.
Oh hail the lunatic in madness and sorrow for a madman today is a hero tomorrow.
For a madman today is a hero tomorrow.

And the moon it pulls on the mind as it pulls on the tumbling tides.
Caught in the orbit of earth it remains. Tell me who is really to blame.

The world once agreed you were ahead of your time while the world in itself was just falling behind.
Oh the hands on the clock may be shaking their fists. You’re timeless for in your eyes time don’t exist.

And the moon it pulls on the mind as it pulls on the tumbling tides.
And the roads before you were always unpaved and the saviors, they never get saved.

Never did you ever dare claim to be the wise man we hear yet the fool we all see.
Oh hail the lunatic in chaos and sorrow for a madman today is a hero tomorrow.

So shine like an ember out there in the dark. I hope you can hear me wherever you are.
You were caught in the riptides, the whirlwinds and dreams. Cast into the madness of reality.
So shine all your light unto us across time like the stars who have perished yet still reach our eyes.
Oh hail the lunatic in beauty and sorrow
For a madman today is a hero tomorrow.
A madman today is a hero tomorrow.
A madman today is a hero tomorrow.
Oh now that your gone, you’ll always be remembered
As a hero today and a hero forever.

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released May 29, 2020
Words and Music by Aaron Martinez
Produced by Juan Lopez and Aaron Martinez
Engineered by Juan Lopez
Mastered at Secuestrable Productions

Starveya is:
Aaron Martinez - Vocals, Guitar, Synth
Desi Martinez - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Kenny Lockwood - Drums, Bass, Backing Vocals

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Starveya Los Angeles, California

Starveya is a 3 piece alternative psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles County. Think Smashing Pumpkins meets Pink Floyd at Haight Ashbury.

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Let You In

Sep 2020
Moontide

May 2020
Olde Crow

Apr 2018
Stellar Womb

Jun 2017

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