Sneaking in my year's song just before the bell(s)
Sorry I've not been contributing here much lately folks. I'm finding it difficult to get back into it and I'm not doing much music anyway....well not finishing much. I've lost the impetus to get stuff done although I enjoy the tinkering. I've tinkered with this for months.
I had the chorus progression for this a year ago but couldn't get any lyric ideas until that first hard lockdown in March when I didn't leave the property (sounds grand, doesn't it?) for 6 weeks. I spent a lot of time bringing back our old vegetable garden which we'd allowed to get overgrown with brambles. The weather was good and despite some mental turmoil about the crazy pandemic situation it was a good productive time and we ended up with a good year's crop of veg.
And for a lot of people it was a whole lot worse!
So there I was toiling away pondering the fact that in a few years time my wife and I will both be drawing our state pension and I will no longer be out working so be at home most of the time. How this time will need to be used to the utmost and enjoyed....while it lasts. And how precious it is too.
Not to mention that it will become more difficult to do stuff and there are bound to be problems with health etc until the eventual inevitable demise! And how much more we will depend on each other. How in fact to best run the last lap!
So i wrote a lyric of optimism because I'm an optimist.
It also struck me that it could apply more widely so this is a message of global hope. On that score I am less optimistic though.
So I set down a lyric then couldn't be bothered to refine it so it's a poor lyric but will have to do.
I won't bore you too much with how I worked up the song musically. It just goes like this. I did the intro last which is quite common for me.
I won't go into the detail of my mixing process either...it would only show that when it comes to vst plugins I am the preset king. So really I did very little....it was somebody else!
At one stage along the way the song minded me of some coked-out West Coast thing like Andrew Gold or something but has ended up like this whatever it is.
My goal if there was one at all was to go as far as I could manage to get something that didn't sound like some bloke knocked it up on his computer in his living room.
I was going to go into more detail as per the discussion thread some time ago but I've gone on too long already so I'll shut up.
Anyone got any questions just ask.
Thanks for listening and a happy new year to all.
Precious Time
There's no going back Nothing's like it was before. That doesn't mean that it's all gone bad You can keep your hazy memories Hold on to the good things There's yet to come
Oh this time we're gonne make it better Yeah everything's gonna be all right Oooh this time's gonna last forever This time's gonna be a precious time
This ever-changing life It picks you up and it puts you down Never seems to fit quite right We need each other now It's up to us to let it in, take it out or grow into it
CHORUS repeat
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