manassas - so begins the task - stereo remix

Edit for headphones, October 2022. A song from the 1972 double album "Manassas".
Members of "Manassas" were:
Stephen Stills: vocals, guitar, bottleneck guitar, piano, organ, electric piano, clavinet, Moog synthesizer
Chris Hillman: vocals, guitar, mandolin
Al Perkins: pedal steel guitar, guitar, vocals
Paul Harris: organ, tack piano, piano, electric piano, clavinet
Dallas Taylor: drums
Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels: bass
Joe Lala: congas, timbales/percussion, vocals

Additional members on the album:
Sydney George (on The Raven and The Wilderness): harmonica
Jerry Aiello (on The Raven and The Wilderness): piano, organ, electric piano, clavinet
Bill Wyman (on The Raven and The Wilderness): bass
Roger Bush (on The Raven and The Wilderness): acoustic bass
Byron Berline: fiddle
Jerry Garcia: pedal steel guitar [rumored to have played on "Jesus Gave Love Away For Free" (along with Al Perkins) and "So Begins The Task"; various interviews have Garcia talking about playing uncredited on this first Manassas album]
Malcolm Cecil: Expanded Series III Moog Synthesizer programming

SO BEGINS THE TASK
(Stephen Stills)

and so begins the task
I have dreaded the coming of for so long

I wait for the sun
to remind my body it needs restin'

and I must learn to live without you now
I must learn to give only part some how

camping on the edge of your city I wait
hoping someday you might see beyond yourself

the shadows on the ceiling hard but not real
like the bars that cage you within yourself

and I must learn to live without you now
I must learn to give only part some how

and I must learn to live without you now
as I cannot learn to give only part some how

all of these cages must and shall be set aside
they will only keep us from knowing

actors and stages now fall before the truth
and the love shared between remains growing

and I must learn to live without you now
as I cannot learn to give only part some how

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