The Recording Process:

Tony Garone - vocals, keyboards, temple bells, Gomelan chimes
Anthony Garone Jr. - electric guitar
Jazzman - drums

Recorded at Cow Pilot Studios

The original title of this song was "Something in my head about you" - and you can sing that to the chorus of the song "Lost in the Temple of Anu". As I was working on the song, I heard these bells in my head (that's been an ongoing problem apparantly yuk yuk) and I thought to myself, "this is sounding less and less like a love song and more like some Gilgamesh type of composition".

I also needed a closing song for "Gilgamesh", and the song had to represent a revelation for Gilgamesh. It was the moment he realised that "fame" at any expense is short lived, but to be remembered for helping and guiding your people as a wise and kind ruler was a long lasting legacy.

So maybe those temple bells represent the bells going off in Gilgamesh's head - a revelation - a realization that a great leader is a servant to his subjects.

So I recorded the drum tracks with Jazzman first. I then added the keyboards and temple bells. Originally, Ann Marie, Jennifer and Steven did some background vocals, but it just didn't work (sorry kids! - they're still mad about that). I had Anthony come in and record that little solo thing that he later told me he lifted from a "Dream Theater" album.

I don't think so.

What is this song about?

This is a song of revelation for Gilgamesh. After losing the Flower of Life to a serpent, and expending his energies in the fruitless pursuit of eternal life, Gilgamesh finally realizes that these things are unattainable. He is human, after all, and he cannot escape the fact that he will someday die. What he can do is to make the best of his time left on Earth.

Like all of us, Gilgamesh has the potential to be truly great. But greatness is not about ego or fame, it is about how we treat each other, how we love one another and how we sacrifice for one another.

It is about humility and servitude. Although Gilgamesh failed to attain eternal life, or eternal youth, he was given another chance. As king, Gilgamesh was a terrible ruler. He finally realizes this, and it is in effect his second chance to right the injustice he has subjected his people to. The greatest leaders of all time were the most dedicated servants to mankind.

In the words of the Master, (Mt:19:30): "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first".

AND...

Mt:20:27: "And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant"

Cuneiform for "Lost in the Temple of Anu"

Dr. Pagan explains:

Here is the Akkadian equivalent of "Lost in the temple of Anu." The signs are arranged in three rows, from top to bottom and left to right.
They are:
i-na
I DINGIR a-nim
ha-li-iq
The transcription is: ina b§t Anim haliq
This may be translated: "Lost in the temple (literally "house") of Anum."
The sign DINGIR functions as a divine determinative in this instance, so it would not be represented in transcription. I is a Sumerogram for Akkadian b§tum "house, temple." The form haliq (from the root hlq, infintive hal~qu, "to disappear, to become missing or lost") is either a predicate "he/she is lost," or absolute state "lost."