New July - New Song - October 21, 2012

A Song A Week is a song a week in name only.  I had been feeling bad/guilty about my lack of activity on the blog, but I have got over it.  I started the blog to give myself a kick in the pants, to ensure that I was engaged and active with music.  What it boils down to is I have been busy playing and practicing music - The Golden Country Band, old folks shows, working on my original material - along with getting through the busiest period of the painting season with my company, Kingfisher Painting Services.  I've had ample opportunity to record a song for the blog, but it just has seemed less pressing and important.  

What has instigated this blog post is a new song I've been working on.  It started to come together Friday night after Golden Country rehearsal and I pounded it out on the piano over the next couple of days and came up with this.....that was last weekend.  I did numerous takes of the song for the blog but I wasn't happy with the melody and dramatic and narrative arc of the song, so I kept working on it over the last week.  Here's me performing the song  in its current form

******Stardate January 13, 2016: this song has gone through numerous melody, time signature, feel, and key changes.....and it still ain't quite there.  

New July 

I laid my arms by the side of the road

they were tired said they needed a rest

I laid down my heart and laid down my head

after listening to them confess

My torso, my legs and me

drinklessly persevered

weaving, weaving

no matter which way we steered

I've decided I'm gonna start smoking

please, light me on fire

I'll burn hot and bright through the soft dark night

a funeral pyre of human desire

At dusk, bats' acrobatics

the geometry of geese in flight

these are the charms I use

to defend against the night

Summer rain inert upon abstract blocks of hospital

where three thousand lie damaged and decaying

A crouching woman howls, a man snarls and lick his balls

in paper slippers I shuffle through the halls

And I got nothing to protect me

from things that fall from the sky

but I ain't worried

I ain't worried

I heard it's gonna be a new July

And I got nothing to protect me

from things that fall from the sky

but I ain't worried

I ain't worried

I heard it's gonna be a new July