Thursday, October 27, 2011

Your Love Will Be Safe With Me

Me, Jason, Scott, and Jaime are so close to finishing our album, it's driving me crazy. I truly hope that people get what we are trying to do with this album. I don't want to play bar to bar, just entertaining people. I don't want to be background music. I want to show people why I didn't pursue a career in what I was majoring in when I was in college. I want to tell a story with the songs I've written. I want to change lives. I want to change those lives with words. I want to get a message across to the person these songs are about. I want to tell them I know were not meant to be, I know that I wont ever get through to you, just know that I'm always here for you. I wont wait for love, I wont wait for anything. I'll simply just be, and live my life to the fullest, and try to be the best Christian I can be. I like to think I'll know when love has found me. That's good enough for me. The funny thing about myself is that I've already found what I want to spend the rest of my life doing, and that's making and performing music that I'm proud of, music that I love. So from me to you, all of you, any of you, and yes you too Sally; I hope you enjoy what reaches your ears. I appreciate all of your support, my friends, my family, and my loves. Your love will be safe with me.  

Sunday, October 2, 2011

NEW SONG!!!!!!



Oh the beauty of a new song, I had this idea for a piano piece and it turned into something else. I'll be posting a video of it as soon as I can get a good take of the band playing it. I seriously have never heard a drum or bass piece quite like this. I encourage my band mates but I also don't want to tell them how incredibly blown I am by this new song. Don't want it to go to their heads lol. Kidding of course. The new song has to go on the album. I'm hoping we can just add it. I don't really want to lose any of the 12 we have right now. Who knows maybe 13 tracks is what we need. The lyrics to the new song are somewhat of a confession. A confession of how I have let one of my most important relationships drift away as of late. Harry and Sally don't speak as much as they should. I also feel like I've danced around who she is long enough. I shouldn't be afraid to say it out loud. I pretty much do in this song. I've never gotten a description of a person, emotion and a feeling better than I managed in this song. For lack of better words, I LOVE THIS SONG! Here ya go... the lyrics.

You won't know

Verse 1
Take that flight to Indiana and you stay in motion.
Dressed to kill and so well mannered, but you've got this notion
Of keeping company with stars. 
I'm keeping company with scars.
Oh yeah.
Verse 2
I'll lay back down and speak the truth that you say you wanted. 
You won't know the things you lose, or the things you taunted.
Up and down my halls. When you knew I wanted all.
Up and down I'd fall. 
Oh yeah.
Chorus
If I spoke to the rain like it speaks to you
If I showed some restraint maybe I'd learn the truth
that 3AM still calls out your name
I'm hoping that you'll fall back in my way
but you won't know.
Verse3
Fly back south to find Savannah and to hear these broken 
notes resound from this piano, oh the way they're spoken.
Through burning lips and blinded tongues
Through parted waves of drowning lungs. 

Repeat Chorus.