Hi all, well I've noticed it does seem easier to write downbeat songs as I get older,
maybe too much occupied with adversities of love and life. So I started the New Year trying to redress the balance and write a couple of more positive songs. This is the second less 'miserable' one. Positive, but not jolly! So the therapy is kind of working!
I have also tried to do something different in the mid break section of this one, incorporating a bit of poetry by Shakespeare! I'd be interested to hear how that works for you, as well as more general impressions you might have about the song itself. Thanks!
Michael A
Lyrics:
PoetryI watch over when you’re sleeping
You always quickly drift away
As a rhythm or a rhyme
Breathing steadily in time
To gentle dreams you stray
I watch over when you’re sleeping
Are you conjuring poetry?
Not in verses you might sing
But instead in everything
This life you make for me
CHORUS:Thank you for the poetry
Which as you sleep, oh I can see
You made me whole again
Thank you for the poetry
It’s just the way you are with me
I found my soul again
Because of you
I watch over when you’re sleeping
Makes me think of poems of old
Perfect words describing you
Perfect words that would be true
To paint a heart of gold
INTERLUDE: Sonnet 18, excerpt – by William ShakespeareShall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
And every fair from fair sometime declines
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see