https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:21:35 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166557 Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:43:27 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club nolongerme https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166557 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166150 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:24:36 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Nothing_to_Lose https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166150 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166106 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:46:32 +0000
"A treasure map of lines and ink defines your facial form
And the calmest pair of sea blue eyes concealing such a storm"

Musically........think Dylan!.....cooker]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club cooker https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166106 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166084 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:27:49 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club martin-6 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166084 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166020 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:42:12 +0000 Guitar Noise Songwriting Club beans7178 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-166020 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-16285 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:55:40 +0000 There are some lines that could be more problematic in a singing situation than they are in a reading one, however I feel very pleased with the outcome and I wanted to share it with you all.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Drawing You"

On those lazy Sunday mornings you always would refuse
To let me take my paintbrush and adorn you with tattoos
The world has turned and marked us both since those halcyon days
But you left in me a picture that time cannot erase

I'm no Caravaggio or even a Matisse
But I know my subject well and sketch it piece by piece
I have an eye for detail and my memory never fails
I paint to feel the gentle scratching of your fingernails

I've a good sense of perspective, a plan in my mind's eye
A geometric formula on which I can rely
It's not the golden ratio that Leonardo used
This unique set of proportions only works for drawing you:

The curve I trace that forms your lips is one twelfth of your back
The shadow of your shoulder blade is half the blackest black
The angle of your cheekbone cuts the paper like a knife
The sun reflecting off your hair sets the scene alight

The texture of your skin becomes the softest of cross-hatches
White as snow from head to toe (except for certain patches!)
The birthmark on your bottom is a charcoal smudge of grey
And the fold beneath your buttocks is twice as dark a shade

The contours of your body are engraved within my mind
Pencil-marks and shadings I could trace if I were blind
A treasure map of lines and ink defines your facial form
And the calmest pair of sea blue eyes concealing such a storm

I don't have moving pictures or a photo I can find
Just a thousand sketches on the canvas of my mind
Ever since you left this world I've nothing else to do
Gone but not forgotten, I'm forever drawing you.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club martin-6 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/drawing-you/#post-16285