Hey peeps! Just updated my LWYT playlist on Soundcloud with a bunch of rough mp3s available for streaming and download. Something to hold you over while I work on my new solo album! Let me know what you think or if any song in particular resonates with you!
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Just wrote a new song I'll call D&H for now. A little belated ditty inspired primarily by my songwriting book club's most recent selection, Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss. I'd read the book once before, but it's always different reading from a songwriter's perspective.
I enjoy these projects and take them quite seriously. I like the challenge as well as the accomplishment of being able to whittle pages and pages of notes down to a tiny little creation. It's like word pottery. Although sometimes I end up grieving the words and phrases that don't make the final version. I love that these book selections take me on a journey, first far away into another world of experiences, then back and somehow closer to myself than I was when I started. New themes and stories and characters apply themselves like a bandage to my tangled knot of a psyche, and I am able to unearth a different yet familiar perspective. It's like writing from a bird's eye view of myself. A secondary source of inspiration is an ongoing dialogue between me and my father regarding the necessity of action, which happens to be a recurring theme in my life, in his life, and in the aforementioned book. (Not to mention every other freakin' place I look...but I'll write more about synchronicity later.) Ok, here goes. As my pal Jeffrey Joe would say, writing this song felt like oral surgery. D&H 1. Father hear my pleas, don’t make me scrape my knees Even Diogenes, he agrees with me A syndrome of self neglect is the sin of intellect Holding lanterns to the light is no necessity CH What good is a god with the head of a falcon that lives on the body of man What sense is the strength of a thoroughbred stallion Running like a scared mare every chance that it can What comfort lies in millions of lives if they’re over before they began Sometimes it shapes me, sometimes it escapes me The good of a god in the body of man 2. Father hear my cries, I’m not buying alibis Your books so wise disguise the valleys for the peaks If all your world’s a page you’ll never take the stage Baby steps assuage the magnitude of quantum leaps REPEAT CH BRIDGE: Heaven knows I’m also froze and apples don’t fall far Trust me, any day’s a good day in the shade of where you are But I’m a prudent teacher’s student and I'm just trying to understand Heads and birds, actions and words And the good of a god in the body of man. REPEAT CH Lyrics:
1. she, shiny, exciting, and new me, comfy, safety, old news we barely escaped from the noose so please if you need to run at least wear my shoes Chorus i know what it takes to communicate trust and truth are always used courtesy, it's all i need to keep walking these miles in your shoes 1.
like silly children playing games in the sand i ask you to punch me just as hard as you can i clench my muscles and hope it doesn't sting it hurts but i pretend i don't feel a thing...we laugh about it ch. we laugh about it, what's so funny 'bout we laugh about it, what's so funny 'bout we laugh about it, what's so funny 'bout me why can't you take me seriously 2. like silly children, never ending hide and seek you always hide you leave the seeking to me i close my eyes i count to 7, 8, 9, 10 you hide so well i can tell you'll never let me win...we laugh about it ch. br. you run away, you chase the girls and pull their pigtails i wait in vain making daisy chains all by myself when you need a rest, need to catch your breath, you come back to home base i don't exist to fill up your empty space...we laugh about it ch. |
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