I've got a whole number of song that I've been fooling around with that I wasn't getting anywhere with any of them. Decided today that I'd focus on one and get it done. The song about the noon train - see entry "songs from dreams" got partly done and I'm stuck on where to take it to make it interesting. I've save that one for a rainy day.
Last night I started playing around on my banjo with a little thing. that sounded OK, but it didn't lead to anything - yet. I then started fooling around with a jazzy bluesy thing on guitar that I really like, and I may come back to that when something inspires me that fits the music.
So, this morning I was still going nowhere and I picked up my guitar and started noodling around. This little piece of music started to evolve that finally got me going. I had fooled around yesterday with some lyrics in an email to Don and Brian and without any thought about where it might go. Well guess what - those few lyrics and the noodling on the guitar this morning led to a song that I've called "Barely Hangin On"
1st verse
When I woke up today, in this little dirty town
I looked outside, the sun was going down
As darkness settled down, in this quiet town
And silence, and the street light just came on
and I feel like I'm barely hangin' on.
Well, the song is now complete. So for the record, that's number 5 for the year. 15 more to go to reach my goal.
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