By JOHN DALY
“Signs From You” the new track by Red Skies Mourning, has a serious message presented with all the grandeur of an early Alice Cooper or Led Zeppelin record. Rock fans can appreciate this music that enlightens and informs.
“Signs From You” is an innovative rock track by Red Skies Mourning, AKA Chris Aleshire, Marine Corps veteran and singer-songwriter. The song tells an emotionally moving suicide awareness message, inspiring the listener to pay attention to those around us.
With strong rock roots, Red Skies Mourning established an important credo in modern music: Don’t forget those in need. “Signs From You” came about as a result of a tragedy during Aleshire’s work as an engineer for a major cloud software company.
“One of my customers daughters went missing,” Aleshire recalled. “They searched for her for four days until they found her body; she committed suicide. When I spoke to him about it, he made a blog about seeing signs from her from the day she went missing and continues to see them that she’s okay.
“Putting myself in his shoes and also having had close friends commit suicide, people tend to push things off, be more self absorbed, not seeing or noticing friends in need,” Aleshire said. “So the lyrics directly describe continually both the What Could I have Done? and also knowing they are in a better place but yet the guilt will stay with you always. I am a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran, so this is for suicide awareness and PTSD.”
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Aleshire gets a hand from some talented musicians in the studio on “Signs From You.”
Musicians on “Signs From You” are JR Richards, the Dishwalla original singer, who also did the arrangement and backing vocals, Ryan Elwood, studio drummer, and Andreas Landeck, studio bassist and guitarist. Jeff Kanan produced, mixed and mastered.
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Signs From You
Our lives are now woven in grey
and rest on the keys you once played
Haunted by the memories that clouded your pain
How Could I have Known? You wore so well that face of stone.
Tomorrow, it seemed like just another day,
Since you’ve been gone, this emptiness I feel inside
Just won’t fade away
And all I see are the signs from you.
Now only the footsteps trail behind a pale shadow of you
These memories are shrouded in blue, all I see now are those signs from you.
What Could I have done? Now that tomorrows just begun… just begun…
Tomorrow, it seemed like just another day,
Since you’ve been gone, this emptiness I feel inside
Just won’t fade away
And all I see are the signs from you.
You’ve been my whisper in the wind
You are the gentle nudge on my shoulder…
Tomorrow, it seemed like just another day,
Since you’ve been gone, this emptiness I feel inside
Just won’t fade away
And all I see are the signs from you.
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