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I want to be among the amazing artists,
jazz musicians, 4 piece quartets,
session artists, producers,
arrangers, engineers,
songwriters, pop artists,
pianists....I want to be one of them.
I didn't always want to be the guy
the thing, the it, the star
It became that way after failed attempts at being
the guy in the back, the piece of the puzzle
I began to think I was the star,
it all came so naturally
I could remember things, arrange things,
flip them around, superimpose them
in a flash, and whoever I was jamming with
would still be tuning their guitar.
They'd be tuning the E string up
and I'd be riding that cool sounding wave
developing a beat, a lyric
a note to accompany that amazing lonesome sound
I could write a record in a day
if everything were just right
Just the way I want it,
and you'd be surprised at how much the reality of things
slows me down. It's fine...I'm not complaining
There's many things in life to be grateful for
I'm just merely stating how I feel
It's all a process...fine, great, dandy
Now down to the nitty gritty
Where do I belong?
I do believe I belong among the amazing artists.
In a studio somewhere, whether it be behind the scenes
writing song after song, eventually landing on a winner
and giving it up...watching it go...
or being the writer and act, bouncing from producers
to engineers to other song writers, being developed
into a star, not just an aspiring artist,
but someone who sees the broad spectrum
one who knows when to call on jazz, or blues, or
classical, or punk. To be able to say
I want something classical here,
and they call in a whole orchestra
to play something completely soul altering
instead of messing around in my room with
a cheapo 80's casio keyboard
Nah, I'm not really doing that...I do have some nice toys
that even the pros use, but it's an incomplete pallet
I want it all at my dispoable
I have the mind capacity for it
Under the right circumstances I could maybe innovate
I could be the guy everyone wants to work with
Or even the guy on a team
writing and letting it go
watching it go
Or even the guy who never gets to either of those places
I'll be fine..life will go on
but I believe in it so much, and not in an egotistical way
It's just something I want to feel
I want to feel my ideas come alive with an orchestra
I want to blow it right up...I wish there was a service
Maybe that's all I would need
Just to hear it, not just in my head
On the other hand, sometimes I'm proud of what I can do
with what I have. That's something that excites me as well
I just want to feel the whole production, I just want to
be apart of that huge system for a little bit
just to know how it feels to be working at that level
It's professional. It's business-like
I like that. I love how music and business are intertwined
it doesn't bother me
The more you learn, the easier it is to accept
jazz musicians, 4 piece quartets,
session artists, producers,
arrangers, engineers,
songwriters, pop artists,
pianists....I want to be one of them.
I didn't always want to be the guy
the thing, the it, the star
It became that way after failed attempts at being
the guy in the back, the piece of the puzzle
I began to think I was the star,
it all came so naturally
I could remember things, arrange things,
flip them around, superimpose them
in a flash, and whoever I was jamming with
would still be tuning their guitar.
They'd be tuning the E string up
and I'd be riding that cool sounding wave
developing a beat, a lyric
a note to accompany that amazing lonesome sound
I could write a record in a day
if everything were just right
Just the way I want it,
and you'd be surprised at how much the reality of things
slows me down. It's fine...I'm not complaining
There's many things in life to be grateful for
I'm just merely stating how I feel
It's all a process...fine, great, dandy
Now down to the nitty gritty
Where do I belong?
I do believe I belong among the amazing artists.
In a studio somewhere, whether it be behind the scenes
writing song after song, eventually landing on a winner
and giving it up...watching it go...
or being the writer and act, bouncing from producers
to engineers to other song writers, being developed
into a star, not just an aspiring artist,
but someone who sees the broad spectrum
one who knows when to call on jazz, or blues, or
classical, or punk. To be able to say
I want something classical here,
and they call in a whole orchestra
to play something completely soul altering
instead of messing around in my room with
a cheapo 80's casio keyboard
Nah, I'm not really doing that...I do have some nice toys
that even the pros use, but it's an incomplete pallet
I want it all at my dispoable
I have the mind capacity for it
Under the right circumstances I could maybe innovate
I could be the guy everyone wants to work with
Or even the guy on a team
writing and letting it go
watching it go
Or even the guy who never gets to either of those places
I'll be fine..life will go on
but I believe in it so much, and not in an egotistical way
It's just something I want to feel
I want to feel my ideas come alive with an orchestra
I want to blow it right up...I wish there was a service
Maybe that's all I would need
Just to hear it, not just in my head
On the other hand, sometimes I'm proud of what I can do
with what I have. That's something that excites me as well
I just want to feel the whole production, I just want to
be apart of that huge system for a little bit
just to know how it feels to be working at that level
It's professional. It's business-like
I like that. I love how music and business are intertwined
it doesn't bother me
The more you learn, the easier it is to accept