Days of Future Past

When I was writing the first Intermezzo for Rome's Evolution, which took us back to "Rei's last day on Earth," I had Rei pick a song at random. My original draft had the song as "Days of Future Past" by the Moody Blues, as I believed this was a song on the album.

If you think back to Part 2 of Rome's Revolution, I made a big deal of Rei having recovered his music slab. Well, in Intermezzo 1 of Rome's Evolution, you see how he acquired it and in Intermezzo 2, you see how he recovered it. I even made mention of the fact that Rome liked the Moody Blues as well.

Well, as I was researching Intermezzo 1, I looked at the play list for the album Days of Future Past (P.S. The first book I ever wrote was called Future Past) and discovered there was no song with that title. But then I stumbled across a song called "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" which I had heard many times but never listened that carefully to the lyrics. Here is just a little taste:

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

The mist is lifting slowly
I can see the way ahead
And I've left behind the empty streets
That once inspired my life
And the strength of the emotion
Is like thunder in the air
'Cause the promise that we made each other
Haunts me to the end

I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
I know I'll find you somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you

Once I read the lyrics, I was blown away. It was as if this song were written for Rei and Rome. And the song was written in 1967. I didn't even write the first draft of VIRUS 5 until 1973. But it took me until 2013 to read the lyrics carefully.

If you want to listen to it, here is a video with the song and lyrics.

Pretty prophetic, huh?