Happy New Year all. I've been dabbling with songs and posted my first effort in November and got some great feedback around the good and the bad.
I'm trying to find out whether I should spending more time on this, given day job and too many other hobbies!
Any comments welcome, although I don't play any instruments properly so comments on song structure, general feel are probably more helpful as I would need to work with a musician if I ever wanted to do more. Also - the narrated comments were a bit of a laugh and I kept them in for amusement but would probably remove from final song!
https://soundcloud.com/v8burble/starting-outStarting Out – Composed by Philip Stewart 2015
[Spoken] This is my story of love. It’s a story of passion, on which my dreams were fashioned, and a love that would endure within me forever.
Well it started back in a bar in the city
My plans torn up with a smile
Just a look from this girl, and damn she was pretty
And how she’d light up my world for a while
just a regular guy with no cares and no worry
and nothing holding me back
but how things change in a hurry
I guess it’s just life has that knack
It may take a spark to start the fire
But once full of flames and desire
The here and now leaves what was before
A long distant memory, forevermore
Starting out – way back then
No idea of who or when
But looking back at this life of mine
That was my love and that was my time
We travelled, explored life and each other
But no greater sight did I see
Than the sight of my girl on a hot summer night
And the truth that this girl was with me
The taste of her lips, the touch of her skin
Shook me through to the core
The warmth of her body, pressed up to mine
What I knew then and now, I couldn’t want more
She was that spark that started the fire
And she was everything I desired
The here and now leaves what was before
A long distant memory forevermore
Starting out - way back then
No idea of who or when
And now looking back at this life of mine
That was my love and that was my time
Though time’s made us weary, and memory fades
Ever line on her face tells a tale
Of the good times, the bad, of those wild escapades
Everything that we did we could not fail
[Spoken] When I’m old and lying back thinking of the good times, I know, I just know that this memory will last with me forever
And our dreams were unlimited, love uninhibited
And life flowed like sweet fine wine
Our dreams were our own, she’s the dream of mine
That was my love and that was my time
Starting out - way back then
No idea of who or when
And now looking back at this life of mine
That was my love and that was my time
And now looking back at this life of mine
That was my love and that was my time