Psyche's Muse
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12/9/2024 10:26:52 PM
FAT LADY
(written in homage to the material world)
This is our favorite improv... a magical moment where the words and music came together so beautifully. This inspired us to continue with our unorthodox musical approach.
PHOENIX
("Phoenix" is "Truth")
THIS is the "First Time EVER" that "my words" had a "song" as their intended purpose. William had moved to South Dakota and at the time I hadn’t any clue whether or not He would “EVER” be returning home here in Louisiana. So, I sent these "lyrics" to him in the mail. He calls me up one day and when I answer the phone he places his phone on the table beside him and just starts singing this to me while playing his classical guitar. This was in late 1990/early 1991. He moved back home here in 1992, so this was recorded by 1993. After he came back is when I got an electric keyboard, a 4 track recorder, mixing board, etc.
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Lars Mars
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12/11/2024 7:38:46 AM
Yes Mortimer, I think Fat Lady is my favorite of yours too.
And similarly my favorite is the first one I wrote. As terrible as it was (and it was), I realized that I could write a song. That confidence spurred me to continue and improve and grow.
And when the band liked my songs and joined in, improving them with their (often better) ideas, I was completely rapt.
Then we played them for other people who had never heard them and they not only got it, but liked it. Dancing along, eventually singing along, requesting their favorites.. very heady stuff for a 16 year old.
Thanks for asking Richard.
Glenn
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Gregg-Sterling30
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12/11/2024 9:02:51 AM
---- Updated 12/11/2024 9:03:33 AM
This one is a little different... There's a movie script here if you visualize the lyrics..
https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=2867239
"Private Jeremiah"
Private Jeremaih, got some news for you today,
it's the final order you'll obey,
You're going back to Gatlin,
there are fields that need be cleared,
and your mama can't do it on her own,
all alone,
Private Jeremaih,
don't you look at me that way,
for you this war is over now obey,
The horse that stands a-waitin,
was your Daddy's finest steed,
he'll give you all his strenght to get you home,
now you be gone...
There's a barn that needs a fixin,
and fences to repair,
and tommorrow General Lee,
ain't runnin nowhere,
Private Jeremaih,
you're a better man than me,
even though you're barely 17,
the men you see around you,
who's lives will surely end,
you'll hear their voices call you once again,
in the end...
You'll see them on the hillsides,
Where the Blue now lies in wait,
Cause in your children's children,
They'll live again..,
Private Jeremaih
there is no more time to waste,
you've got your final order now obey,
The Union Army's ready and so is General Lee,
and you won't be among the gallant men,
Who'll die today...
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Tom O'Brien
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12/14/2024 2:12:00 AM
---- Updated 12/14/2024 2:31:00 AM
Great topic, Richard. It's fun hearing songs that are so personal to people.
I think the favorite song I've written is always the next one I'm working on! But, looking back, I have many favorites for different reasons. But I think my overall favorite is a song called "Funny How." I'd been playing a lot of standards from The Real Book and noticing how sometimes a beautiful melodic line would go on for 12 or 13 chords, as if they're not in any hurry to get anywhere, and they want to enjoy the scenery. There are so many 4 chord songs these days. I wanted to write a song that would fit easily in a set of standards. It's a slow, sentimental song, a little old-fashioned, and it's peppered up with clarinet. It might not be as good as the standards, but that's what I had in mind. And what makes this song extra special to me is that a nice gentleman added it to his station, saying that it's the kind of song he wished he had written for his wife of 57 years! He was effusive in his praise and I could tell that what I felt in writing it, he felt in listening to it. I felt like I had finally written something that mattered to someone.
https://indiemusicpeople.com/songs.aspx?SongID=119012&ArtistID=128691
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