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I started writing something today. Had two iffy verses and a part of a chorus.... Then I took a shower.
Which gave me the finish to the chorus :D

This one just might go somewhere, and soon.
It will be vague, of course. Don't know if it will qualify for this weeks assignment though....?

dust from stars falling all about
through golden rods of sunshine filled with doubt
if nothing's real than everything must be true
and all that ly's between is me and you

As far as "ly" goes, that's how I spelt it, on purpose :wink:

Ken]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/paged/2/#post-369359 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369314 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:05:02 +0000 Thursday - Who Are You Tonight
That's all I got :(

*edit
So, as I was doing something menial with my mind disengaged, I came up with this:

it took You so long to put Us behind
tell me.... who are You, this time

(Night rhymes with time)

And I smiled to myself - Who are You, this time, sounds much better than Who are You tonight!
Then the smile ran away from my face - It sounded better because it sounded familiar.
I punched it into Google, and just as I expected - Tom Waits had beat me to it! :evil:
Oh well :wink:]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369314 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369313 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:02:27 +0000 James

Thankx for the look :D

I like the noun bit. Completely escaped my notice!
Thankx for pointing that out :wink:
Maybe that'll take it somewhere.

Going back to the soul mate/cosmos idea....
I was brushing up a bit on my Eastern philosophy a few days ago.
Ended up reading about Karma at one point.
It seems the goal is not to have good karma, but to end up with no karma at all and get to Nirvana.
Until then, round and round you go.
I guess that's sorta what I was after with that story line, in a way. Except pertaining to the souls of two lovers
trying to achieve that and make it there together.

Chris

Thankx for the kind words and encouragement :D

Yes, the shower holds some strange powers indeed.
I don't know if it's the feeling of safety, the solitude, the sound of the water, the sense of regeneration....?
It does free the mind to relax though (Until you have to dash out soaking wet and write it down, yes!)

The subconscious mornings are magical too, yes! :D
Though, I don't find myself writing as much at that time.
Mostly, any problems I have that were unsolvable the day before are cleared up when I wake.
Mysteries are solved.... things of that nature.

Ken]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369313 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369184 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:05:59 +0000 Wednesday -
I came up with the first part of this in the shower today (I write a lot of my lyrics there).
And the last part in the car.
This is it, just as it came out. Might need some revising. And maybe more direction.
Picture it against a Jazz background with a repeating groovy bass vamp.
It's not meant to be symmetrical.

of all the people
I have been
well, I have never cared
for any of them
.... except-for-him
THE ONE YOU LOVED

SNIP...
I like that idea a lot Ken. I hope you keep going with it.

The shower is a wonderful place to write lyrics isn't it. :D I saw an interview with a very successful writer/performer talking about writing some of his hits in the shower and beating time on his chest as he improvised the lyrics.

I find that early morning is a great time for lyrics - you can often get the benefit from all the subconscious overnight work the brain might have done on an idea. So the wakeup shower can be a great time for songwriting. I've put together the major chunk of more than one song like that. Of course, there's then the dash to the pen or computer to get it all down once you've dried off!

Hope we get to see/hear more of that one.

Cheers,

Chris]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369184 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369182 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:13:45 +0000 Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369182 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369180 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:07:33 +0000 Wednesday -
I came up with the first part of this in the shower today (I write a lot of my lyrics there).
And the last part in the car.
This is it, just as it came out. Might need some revising. And maybe more direction.
Picture it against a Jazz background with a repeating groovy bass vamp.
It's not meant to be symmetrical.

of all the people
I have been
well, I have never cared
for any of them
.... except-for-him
THE ONE YOU LOVED

of all the places
I have lived
Your heart was the most
...........................
................. Beautiful

all the things I would give
to be there with You now

to be anywhere with You

Ken]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369180 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369079 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:18:17 +0000 Thursday and Friday - I got nuthin'. Work got a bit too crazy this week with this being a holiday weekend :(

MrEWorm - Thankx for the look and the reply :D

I'm pretty big on Dylan, though I have to admit, I've not heard that song before. It's called, 'Day of the Locusts' off of 1970's New Morning album. I gave it a listen on utube and really liked it :D
Cool back-story to the song as well.

Listened to a couple by Jade Warrior, too. Think I can get into that. Thankx for the suggestion 8)

James :D

Never saw the movie, Hancock. Checked your helpful link though. Interesting. From what I read, it's not quite what I had in mind for the tale.... at least not in an immediate sense.
Though, perhaps their story was a bit helpful to me. From what I understood, they were paired at creation (or there-abouts) and set on the world together. Both having super powers.... Powers that diminish more and more the closer they get with each other. That was a bit puzzling to me....? Why were they paired if they couldn't be together? Was it something of a price to pay for Love? Do they have to choose between either having super powers (which can give them seeming immortality), or togetherness (which renders their powers nil and they lose immortality)?

With that in mind, I guess that's the rub, aye? For lovers to be together, something great must always be sacrificed. Every great story contains conflict, and the best sort, is inner conflict. No conflict, no story :twisted:

Thankx for that, James :D

Ken

ps - sorry I haven't had time to look at anybody else's logs yet.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369079 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369037 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:55:02 +0000 On your Oriental sound, I thought od a couple albums by a group named "Jade Warrior" lots of flutes, drums, ethereal guitar, bells, tiny cymbals, wood sticks etc.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group John Sargent https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369037 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369033 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:06:00 +0000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_%28film%29]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369033 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369029 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:52:36 +0000 Wednesday - So, sticking with the Jazz fusion motif, I'll draw some inspiration from my favorite album for this one: Van Morrison's, Astral Weeks.

The idea is a song called - Stars and Stones. Sort of a Jimi inspired bit about Stars and Planets.... The cosmos at the dawn of time. I've always been fascinated with the idea of 'the better half', or 'soul mates'. So, with this we have soul mates who are together in the cosmos, end up on earth together, meet, and go through the process of being together in the cosmos again and then back to earth, again and again, until they get it right. Sort of a tale of rebirth and reincarnation. Of eternal love and all it's struggles.... and glory.

Possible lines - Before the stars and the stones there was always you and me.
Or - Since the beginning there was you and I. Without form, without time....

Ken]]> Sunday Songwriters Group CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/yr9-wk44-my-notes/#post-369029