[Jenna]

Let me know what you think. This one definitely came with its own melody. I hope I can get it down before it disappears:

When I Met You

As smooth as a bird soars through the trees
And as soft as the wind on their leaves
Is how your touch affects me
As I drift into a dream.

Your gaze it washes over me like
The steady rain outside our door
I take in the beauty that surrounds me
And my thoughts set to wondering
how I could ever want for more

Reflecting on old daydreams
Inside my weary mind
Reminds me of those faded days
When love existed only for the blind

You've brought to life
The dreams inside me
Given me back some meaning
This precious gift of living life
With purpose and in freedom

When I met you
I met the sunrise
When I met you
A truth came in disguise
When I met you
It healed my deepest wounds
When I met you
I owned the moon.

All our years, they go so fast
As we grow into each other
Grow into this beautiful thing
Between friends and lovers

I close my eyes and breathe your smile
And it lifts my spirits high
It's in this moment that I know
this love will never die

When I met you
I met the sunrise
When I met you
A truth came in disguise
When I met you
It healed my deepest wounds
When I met you
I owned the moon

[hardtwistmusic]

I think this is my favorite lyric from you.  Sings easily and well without any real effort with a variety of vocal melody directions. 

[Jenna]

Wow. Thank you, Verl! I'm getting closer to a final version on this one. It's in the other thread accidentally created by a board glitch. I tried to retitle it "I Own the Moon." The updated lyrics can be found there.

I'd love to hear a variety of vocal melodies if you or anyone else is willing to do up a click track. There's only one melody playing in my mind's ear, and it sounds like every other love song I've ever heard, which is the last thing I want to make of this. It's also playing country style, and I'm not sure I want to make it country.

[hardtwistmusic]

Okay.... now I understand.  I'll try to send you a sample vocal melody by Monday.  Before then, I need an e-mail address that will accept attachments (I've never made that work through this forum's e-mail/messaging). 

I will then send an mp3 to that e-mail address.  Send me that address (if you are willing) via private message so that you don't have to publish it. 

[hardtwistmusic]

Okay:   I've got you a sample verse, chorus, and bridge for your lyric.  I made them very "non-generic" by varying the generic "spacing" of the flow. . . used pauses to break up a generic flow.  All I need is somewhere to send them.  I'm reluctant to post it to my reverbnation page because it is so incomplete.  Let me know.  OR. . . maybe I'll try to attach it to one of the private messages here.  Never made that work in the past. . . but the software has been changed.

[Veance]

This is a very enjoyable song to read. Hope to hear it one day.
Whoops, I read it again. 

That's because I can almost feel the song and that's great, right?

In what genre are you making this song?

[Jenna]

This is a very enjoyable song to read. Hope to hear it one day.
Whoops, I read it again. 

That's because I can almost feel the song and that's great, right?

In what genre are you making this song?

Well thanks for sharing. I think that is a good sign. I'm not sure of the genre yet. I've played it with an arpeggio style chord progression that seems to fit and that's about as far as I've gotten. Things are really busy here at the moment. Between traveling to visit friends and seminars, and my local friend who's very ill and just lost her son to an addiction, I'm having a hard time focusing on the music projects lately. Plus, I'm still learning my DAW and incorporating new equipment. It's been a real juggling act these last few months. I'll be sure and post whatever updates I make in this thread. Thank you for the read and comments.

I can say that I think my husband read it while I was gone last weekend and I came back to an utterly smitten man upon my return. That's also a good sign. LOL

[Veance]

I hope you find enough peaceful and quiet moments to write.
Do you write your singing melody first or do you start with an instrument?
and what DAW do you use? I use Ableton live for my recordings.

[Jenna]

I hope you find enough peaceful and quiet moments to write.
Do you write your singing melody first or do you start with an instrument?
and what DAW do you use? I use Ableton live for my recordings.

I can't say that I have any established method, but this one played a melody as I was writing the lyrics. I'm using a guitar to play that out. My DAW is Studio One by Presonus.