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I asked my 8 year old to play something for me on the piano. She said “Okay, I’ll play something I’m writing”. She played this theme for me in 5/4 time. I found it hypnotic, so I created my own arrangement of it. Here it is.
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I started this some time around Thanksgiving of 2009. Finished it in February of 2010 so I could add it to my FAWM list.
When I first started this song, the only lyrics I had were “And we did it again”. I didn’t mean anything by it, but my wife thought it was suggestive. With that in mind, I wrote the first verse. She thought that the lyrics made it a little less subtle. 🙂
So in February I finished it up with the second verse and did a quick recording. Me on vocals and guitars. I used Garageband to create the drum track. I like this song enough that I’ll probably go back and re-record it at some point. Might even add another verse or a bridge or something.
First public performance: the Miramar in Milwaukee, WI, on 23 March 2010.
©2010 Stephen G Brown
Update: 29 August 2010
I’m going to rewrite these lyrics. Stay tuned.
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I wrote this song on 14 March 2010. Recorded the same day. Me on vocals and piano. First performed live on 23 March 2010 at the Mirimar Theater in Milwaukee, WI.
©2010 Stephen G Brown
All the times we’ve run away
Even when we should have stayed
Can’t face the music that we played last night
Honey I’ve been here and gone
We always play the same old song
I think I’m right, you think I’m wrong again
But I can’t lay it all on you
You know that I can be crazy
Temper’s hot and mood is blue
Let go
Come and sit beside me now
We can worth through this somehow
Let’s set it aside before the sun goes down
All the things we’ve done and said
All the tears that we have bled
Will wash away when we can let them go
But I can’t lay it all on you
You know that I can be crazy
Temper’s hot and mood is blue
Let go
Welcome to my Music Blog.
I’ve been a musician all my life. I’ve written songs for much of my life. Many of them silly, many of the bad. But some of them, not so silly, not so bad. My problem has always been that I never finish the songs. I learned about FAWM (http://fawm.org) last fall, and decided to take the challenge – write 14 songs in the 28 days of February.
At first, I hoped to complete 14 new songs. But as things progressed, I realized that what I really wanted to was to finish songs I had already started. As things went, I wrote two new songs, and finished two previously started songs. That was just fine with me. Perhaps more importantly, it pointed me in the right direction. Couple weeks into March, I sat down at the piano and wrote a song beginning to end that afternoon. I’ve already performed that song at an open mic night.
So this blog is my effort to direct that momentum. I’m going to try to post songs here intermittently as I finish them. My goal is not to publish highly polished studio recordings, but demo recordings that give a good sense of the intended sound. Your feedback will always be appreciated.
