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With the “Other” Other Dimension ready for mixdown, Eric felt there should be one more “Bass-centric” song. This was after-all a Pete Trewavas “Solo Album featuring Eric Blackwood” and there wasn’t enough classic Pete on the record. Eric asked Pete to come up with something however, slightly harder and less complicated but still showcasing Pete on the bass. Something that perhaps they could use perhaps as a Single? Pete was impressed with the hard alternative rock song “Lifeline” that Eric had come up with earlier in the week and as a dedication to Hard Rock/Heavy Metal (and Eric’s history in the genre), Pete wrote the bassline to Outerspaced “as if it was dialed up”. Pete literally said when Eric said this to him “Oh you mean something like this” and there it was. Blackwater’s main motif came flying out. Up until now on the album, ITLWM was a dreamy sort of floating experience. Now 6 songs in, Eric and Pete decided it was time to wake people up and get in their face. Attempting to keep the song in the “alien theme” that they had taken off in, Eric wrote lyrics from a hippie’s point of view… “We all come in Peace” “I could just picture a dead-head in tie-dye with his fingers in a peace sign” “We’ve Got Happy Trees, the kindest of herb, Send you back to OUTERSPACE without leaving earth” “Knock back a few of these, we’ll get intergalactic pissed”, Eric felt said hippie would assume that aliens would “of course have nothing better to do then come light years to this planet, to drink and get high”. Eric did the first round of vocals before he came up with the tag line “can’t we all just get along”?... a silly sort of phrase that all of the young adults in America had begun to say whenever their friends were having a conflict. It was Pete’s idea to change Big Daddy to the more interstellar “Hey there, Big Dipper”. Wendy Farrell-Pastore and Pete Trewavas looked at each other with a bizarre sort of look after Eric’s AC/DC style vocal performance as if to say… hmmm… not sure ‘bout this one. So Pete tried it. And while he sang it, Eric fell over… literally… onto the floor. Not exactly knowing what was happening to him, they all quickly realized that as Pete had just hit the crescendo of the song, Ocean City Maryland and the surrounding area had been hit by a 6.0 earthquake.

lyrics

Hey there big daddy
We all come in peace
come on down and feel the music rising off the street
aw come on, let's all get along, take off..

Take it to the sky
How high can we fly
Let's ride.

Welcome to our earth
Try some of this
Knock back a few of these, lets get intergalactic pissed.

Let's all get along take off.
Take it to the sky
How high can we fly let's ride

We've got happy trees
The kindest of all herb
Send you back to outerspace without leaving earth

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from In The First Waking Moments​.​.​. (The Making of "In The Last Waking Moments​.​.​.​" Demos & Alternate Tracks), released November 11, 2012
Lead Vox: Eric Blackwood
Lead Gutiar 1: Pete Trewavas
Lead Guitar 2: Eric Blackwood
Rhythm Guitar: Pete Trewavas
Bass: Pete Trewavas
Drum Programming: Pete Trewavas

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