Song: Beyond the Rim

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Hi again. My sixth year of making music for this challenge was, well, challenging. After struggling with inspiration for a while, I went back to a community member's suggestion that they would like to hear a song about Zack Allen. While Zack himself did not prove to be an especially inspirational character for me, Jeff Conaway's recent passing got me thinking about the many people involved with Babylon 5 who died before their time. This is a song for them (and I suppose for anyone else, real or fictional, who needs to be memorialized) borrowing imagery from "Sleeping in Light." My other goal for this song was to write something that was comforting without being religious, in deference to JMS's particular views on that subject. (c:

So, it's kind of an oblique subject this year again, and I'm not sure I'm entirely happy with the result, but I hope you like it anyway. As always, if you enjoy this, you may want to know that more of my music (fannish and otherwise) can be found at my website.

Beyond the Rim - right click to download
(voice, acoustic guitar)

( Lyrics )