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Backstory:

When you dream in a half-asleep state and/or wake up while dreaming, you remember the dream. The melody idea for this song came to me in such a state. Since I already had the words sent by Benn, I quickly snapped out of my drowsiness to check if the melody would fit into the words. And, it did. Out of the several beats we could use for this challenge, Benn and I both preferred the Bright Backbeat the most. So, we started from there, sped the beat up to make the song uptempo, made some tweaks to both the words and the melody, and soon it all came together. 

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Years later when I'm looking back at the song, I seem to have forgotten who took charge of the lyrics and who the melody. I think that tells me, it can go down as an example of good prosody (marriage of music and words).  

Lyrics:

                                                  
The Road Ahead
(Benn Cutarelli, Ban Banerjee) 

Verse 1
She was headed down
That nowhere road again
Feeling kind of weary 
Runnin’ herself thin
Been thinkin’ about her for the past few days
How it used to be before she went away

Chorus
The road ahead is sometimes not easy
'Cause of fog or rain or just our fantasies 
So we might not know where we are gonna go
We take those turns but we don’t always see
The road ahead

Verse 2
No matter where you go
Down that lonesome road
No matter how deep you get
Carrying that heavy load
Just stop and think, don't let things bring you down
If you’ve gone too far you can always turn around

Repeat Chorus

Bridge
Gotta turn around, turn around, turn around
Turn around, turn around, turn around

Repeat Chorus w/Tag
The road ahead
The road ahead

Copyright © 2007 Benn Cutarelli, Ban Banerjee