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Black Velvet Lace
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8/7/2008 5:39:07 PM
---- Updated 8/7/2008 5:52:27 PM
OK no music yet.. some lyrics tho..
lyrics to a song i wrote in the late 70s.. it had another verse before the last but cant for the life of me remember it rite now.. music is somewhere around here on a cassette..
programming as well.. by your standards its likely quite trite.. yall can critique.. please
Shadowchild
you speak to me of moonbeams
i seem to understand
while all around the frozen ground
you spread your waning hand
your reach has slipped from this world girl
i wish to colour mine
with unborn trips on satin ships
all borrowed from your mind
walk among the shadows
hide behind the clouds
whispering with wisdom
you're a shadowchild
sprinkle starlight silver
take the moon to bed
speak to me of rainbows
that play within your head
your gray eyes melted opal tears
the colors once there waned
the fire died behind your smile
that sweet september rain
walk among the shadows
hide behind the clouds
whispering with wisdom
you're a shadowchild
sprinkle starlight silver
take the moon to bed
speak to me of rainbows
that play within your head
lyrics by ~Lace~
copyright 2008
story behind the song- autobiographical in one sense, written during a period of life that kicked me in the teeth and left me wondering if i was sane.. autobiographical in another sense, years later in my professional career met a young client whose suffering and resilience touched me deeply... she'd been born into deplorable circumstances and abused her whole life.. she had no one when she was placed into residential treatment where i had the honor of being her therapist.. psychotic and therefore impossible to understand during times of stress.. lucid most of the time.. i loved her.. i wonder still whatever became of her...
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Art Factory
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8/7/2008 6:12:48 PM
Hi Lace, it's nice to meet you, I recall your station link to one of my early stations. These lyrics are beautiful... with great imagery, it seems our saddest stories bring about some of the most inspired works. I'll look for the song upload when you get it worked out.
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never never band
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8/7/2008 6:50:20 PM
I think that's a lovely lyric..
there's nothing trite about it, It's getting rare that people can write verse worth a damn, it takes a special love of language and a natural sense of rhythm.
I hear this as a prog rock ballad, something lush.....
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/7/2008 6:54:52 PM
Art/Never, I thank you much! The song, trite or not, is very personal to me.. both for myself and for the young girl who struggled for her sanity (for real). I agree Never, lush would fit it well. I'll make a promise to myself and pull the old programming out tomorrow and see what I had done with it, how I might change it, how I might get it recorded to get it here.......
xox
~Lace~
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Larz Boah
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8/7/2008 7:58:46 PM
These are really quite lyrical and move along well.
Even before I read what the song was about I sensed
a distant sadness which wasn't obvious and I love when
that happens. Subtle and hard to pin-point is always
good....to me, at least.
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The Man With No Band
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8/7/2008 8:21:55 PM
Very nice Lace ... I Love it !
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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8/7/2008 10:36:33 PM
---Lace ----it's really good on images it conjurs---has some fascinating phrases-- and looks like it will suit your vocal style
I think that never' is on the money with prog--start singing it to yourself , so it gets to "fit" like a glove----can't wait--
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/8/2008 7:11:35 AM
Larry/Sam/Robbie thankyouthankyouthankyou!!!
Larry If I heard one thing in all those classes in my creative writing minor it was to paintimagespaintimagespaintimages.. as long as they're not too soupy I'll keep them. Robbie I've a melody, don't know if it will live up to your and Never's imaginings. Only one way to tell, get it here and let ya'll decide. If it's not, I'll invite those interested to take it and see what they can do with it.
xox
~Lace~
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Hugh Hamilton
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8/8/2008 7:35:24 AM
I could imagine this one being done by YES...nice work, Lace...
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/8/2008 7:38:40 AM
Wow, Yes is one of my all time fav bands.. tanks & jeeps Hugo!
xox
~Lace~
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Larry Migliore
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8/8/2008 7:46:40 AM
Very visual and from the heart Lace
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/8/2008 7:58:01 AM
Thank you Larry, it was odd in retrospect to write something with ones self in mind, and then years later finding it actually better fit someone else. Watching another human flee sanity for the protection of psychosis (reach slipping from this world), with concommitant weight loss (waning hand), gibberish (speaking of *moonbeams*) , while desperately relying on all the unspoken connections between us to pull her back left me wondering how it was I wrote a song matching so perfectly someone I'd not yet met.
~Lace~
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The CODE
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8/8/2008 10:03:10 AM
"your gray eyes melted opal tears
the colors once there waned
the fire died behind your smile
that sweet September rain"
Great lyrics Lace!
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/8/2008 10:14:24 AM
Those lyrics did pertain particularly to me way back when........
Thanks Colin!!
xox
~Lace~
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Susan Raven
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8/8/2008 10:32:08 AM
Beautiful lyrics Lace!
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The CODE
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8/8/2008 10:35:54 AM
Universal appeal!
We all want to stay warm!!!
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Eye Of Storm
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8/8/2008 5:12:25 PM
So beautiful, like your soul.
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Gary Stockton
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8/8/2008 9:56:49 PM
That's a wonderful lyric Lace, and would definitely make really really great song. I'm hearing something along the lines of "tomorrow never knows" era Beatles. I'll have to pop an mp3 over to you.
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Art Factory
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8/9/2008 10:59:44 AM
Lace from reading your comments it appears what you are saying is that you saw yourself in someone else (perhaps also through their art) and that has had some kind of healing, or potential healing in your life. That really is a beautiful phenomenon in how we can effect each other, depending upon how that is received (which is your birthright to choose) is experienced as good or bad... and the estimation of it is a self judgment which could also be valued as for better or worse in your sacred relationship with life. When people loose this, they loose the will to live or may even decide to 'check out'. The balance between sense of self and sense of connection with others is confronting. The question always one of, are we looking at our reflection or are we really seeing *it*?
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/9/2008 7:58:33 PM
Wow, Susan/Colin/Eye many thanks for your gracious words!! Gary I'd really appreciate the mp3, you know how much your input means to me (along with your guitar playing :D )
Art, what actually happened is that I wrote the song in the 70s after a significant loss in my life sparked a depression. The *reach slipping from this world* had to do with my sadness and withdrawal from friends/family as a result. Fast forward about 15 years later (I had already healed many years before) and I met a young girl who had lived through horrible deprivation, abuse and loss. She had episodes of psychosis as a result. When I looked at the first two verses of the song again, I thought about how the lyrics described her much more than they had ever really described me. The whole focus of the song then shifted to her; I was her therapist and became the one trying to understand. It kind of amazed me then to think that I had in the past written a song which actually better fit someone I had not met yet.
xox
~Lace~
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Steve April
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8/9/2008 8:18:53 PM
Very evocative lyrics. early simon and garfunkel vibe maybe??
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Art Factory
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8/9/2008 8:33:20 PM
That is a stunning account of how something in your experience through time had an effect within the future , that you were later able to be of service in that way, and then to see the path that took you there. Thank you for expanding upon your experience, somehow knowing that makes the lyrics feel even more alive.. looking forward to hearing it!
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/10/2008 6:46:05 PM
Steve, time and getting the song up here will only tell. Once it's here, another critique shall be in order.....
thanks for commenting!!
xox
~Lace~
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Black Velvet Lace
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8/10/2008 7:02:44 PM
Art, glad that my further explanation fill in the blanks for you! Yes, it was as if I walked a road that sensitized me to the suffering of someone else, which deepened my ability to understand them.
You know, when I was younger I don't think I appreciated how personal any song written is to the artist until I came to *know* Rachel Fuller, and was privy to the emotionality of the songwriting process (such as the Kew experience last week). What I'm trying to say is that I have come to realize how every song written is a piece revealing the life and soul of the artist themselves. In the past I related to lyrics from my own life's perspective, which is probably the universal appeal of music, but I did it without appreciating just how much the author was revealing about their own. Take for example the lyric *Oh babe the skies on fire* from the James Taylor song Gone to Carolina. It wasn't until I learned about the sunsets in the Carolinas that I came to understand he was describing the magnificent colors of the sky from where he originated. Or *mamma's got a squeezebox" reveals that Pete's mother actually owned and played one professionally many years ago.
May I somehow get my inert butt in gear and put some music up with these lyrics for your further input.
Again, many thanks to all who took the time to read them and comment.
xox
~Lace~
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never never band
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8/10/2008 10:51:48 PM
do you mind if I put music to it?
or try to anyway..
huh?
P.
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