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IT Anthems: Apple's Greatest Hits

Peter Judge ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 13 Dec 2002 07:23 GMT

This track, from Apple Developer Helper Volume I, is an absolute monster, and for our money the most pompous rubbish we have ever placed on the IT Anthems site (which long-time fans will know is saying something). Despite despite deeply committed performances, its five minutes feel more like three hours.

This must be the first time a complete transcription has been published, because no one can voluntarily have listened to the very end of this dire, but oh-so-sincerely performed rubbish.

But what does "the power to feel Bill" have to do with Apple's secret of success?

Lyrics

Ten years ago, something happened
Something small
Something most people didn't notice
But it did touch a few of us
Then a few more
And a few more
One ripple following another
Each new wave gaining more distance than the last
And still the ripples keep coming

When we started out
Didn't have much to go on
There was nothing in our pockets but a dream
And in the silence of that first night
We made the promise
That we would make it right
So we went down to the river
And we watched the river flow
All of us together
Comin' up the long, long road.

Takin' every turn an' bend
We were really sumthin' then!
We were young and innocent
As we watched ourselves fall
And fly again!!!

And now the road, y'know
Casts a shadow ten years long
We can see the sunrise
On a braaaaaaaaaand new dawn!

So look into my eyes
As the sunrises behind us
And pass it on,
Like we did back then
The secret of success
This vision, this passion!
This power to feel Bill!

This vow we made so long ago
Like the river we would always flow
Till far from where we've been
Changing the world we're livin' in
And ooooooh Apple
Look around again
Keep on changing
Keep on changing things!
The time has come again
Through the triumph and the pain
The world would never be the same
And I'm ready
The time has come again!

Cuz you can never tell the dancer
From the dance!
And you can never part the singer
From his song!
We've come so far together
This must be -- where we --
Beloooo-ooong
And like a canvas with no paint
Like a stage that's dark and bare
Like a sky without a star
What are we without you there?

And oh, my friends, look around, again
Now there's more of us, together
Than there's ever been!
Keep on changing!
Keep on changing!
Just Keep on changing!
Keep on changing!
Changing, man!

You know the last ten years was just...
... the beginning
So we'll go down to the river
And we'll watch the river flow
All of us together
Going down, the long, long road!
Oooooooooooooooooooh!