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Yesterday I was thinking about the last 2 weeks and I couldn't believe how much me and rachel have been on the same page. It's been a great couple of weeks. I know that being married things can sometimes seem routine, but when we spent much of the weekend at a park being togather and we're almost a year into being married, that is a great thing.
In addition, a new hobby of mine is to take her out on our new 150cc scooter around town, especially at night. It's great. We just sit there with the wind to our faces, i love it.
So I was thinking yesterday how obvious a decision it is for me to record all the songs I've written lately and build them around a cd made just for Rachel. It's just to ...needing to be done. I started recording Let it Go this weekend, however, and something about the song doesn't sound like the old stuff....and I'm not quite liking it yet. I think the way these new songs are written will require more from my ability to record songs and stucture them, but I don't know how I'm going to handle it to help the songs now sound empty. I think the big difference is that I used to use syphony sounds to fill in the gaps, but I no longer have a keyboard to do that. So I'll have to be creative. For the Nth time, here are the songs I believe I'll include, with a little run down of each song:
1. For You, My Dear: Finished, this is our wedding song and I think it's pretty much done.
2. Dine and Dance: This song is about coming home on a friday night after working all week
and looking forward to going out with Rachel.
3. Let it Go: This song is about the perenial arguments found in marriages, and how
eventually, things get resolved when we realize how little those arguments
matter in comparison to our relationship.
4. A Love For The Decades: This song traces a relationship from first date to having kids. But
I get personal about rachel in the middle with the "Looks could
kill" line.
5. Best For Last: This is a very hard message to understand. I like playing it because it's
just melodic and I sing to just eith notes, but I need a way to make the
recording sound more full and have a little more interesting. The basic
message is that if you show faith, then good things happen. And for me it was
that rachel's my last love and the best...so the best was saved for last.
6. Walking: An oldie which I'm going to re-invent because I found new meaning with the song
and have fun playing it. Plus, it actually fits in with these other songs even
though it was the 3rd song i ever wrote.
7. Stay With Me: If anyhting, this is a song I'll have a hard time with cause I havent
officially finished it. It's another old one I've found new meaning with and
am tryinto finsih/reinvent.
8. Kill Your Brother: Not really at all a song about Rachel, but it's one of those antiwar songs which I wrote one easter and I think shows love for all mankind. I would like to include it only because I think it can become a very emotional song assuming I have a symphony background from keyboards.
9. Autumn: I almost forgot this one, but I'd like to re-record it myself because it can be much better, I think, and sound more interesting and solid.
All in all, I'd name the cd either A Love For The Decades (at which point, kill your bro. seems more reasonable to include, because it is about lvoe in general) or For You, My Dear.
In addition, a new hobby of mine is to take her out on our new 150cc scooter around town, especially at night. It's great. We just sit there with the wind to our faces, i love it.
So I was thinking yesterday how obvious a decision it is for me to record all the songs I've written lately and build them around a cd made just for Rachel. It's just to ...needing to be done. I started recording Let it Go this weekend, however, and something about the song doesn't sound like the old stuff....and I'm not quite liking it yet. I think the way these new songs are written will require more from my ability to record songs and stucture them, but I don't know how I'm going to handle it to help the songs now sound empty. I think the big difference is that I used to use syphony sounds to fill in the gaps, but I no longer have a keyboard to do that. So I'll have to be creative. For the Nth time, here are the songs I believe I'll include, with a little run down of each song:
1. For You, My Dear: Finished, this is our wedding song and I think it's pretty much done.
2. Dine and Dance: This song is about coming home on a friday night after working all week
and looking forward to going out with Rachel.
3. Let it Go: This song is about the perenial arguments found in marriages, and how
eventually, things get resolved when we realize how little those arguments
matter in comparison to our relationship.
4. A Love For The Decades: This song traces a relationship from first date to having kids. But
I get personal about rachel in the middle with the "Looks could
kill" line.
5. Best For Last: This is a very hard message to understand. I like playing it because it's
just melodic and I sing to just eith notes, but I need a way to make the
recording sound more full and have a little more interesting. The basic
message is that if you show faith, then good things happen. And for me it was
that rachel's my last love and the best...so the best was saved for last.
6. Walking: An oldie which I'm going to re-invent because I found new meaning with the song
and have fun playing it. Plus, it actually fits in with these other songs even
though it was the 3rd song i ever wrote.
7. Stay With Me: If anyhting, this is a song I'll have a hard time with cause I havent
officially finished it. It's another old one I've found new meaning with and
am tryinto finsih/reinvent.
8. Kill Your Brother: Not really at all a song about Rachel, but it's one of those antiwar songs which I wrote one easter and I think shows love for all mankind. I would like to include it only because I think it can become a very emotional song assuming I have a symphony background from keyboards.
9. Autumn: I almost forgot this one, but I'd like to re-record it myself because it can be much better, I think, and sound more interesting and solid.
All in all, I'd name the cd either A Love For The Decades (at which point, kill your bro. seems more reasonable to include, because it is about lvoe in general) or For You, My Dear.