Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Two Days, Two Songs
The second song I wrote spontaneously with words and music together came a day after the last one I posted last week. If you're behind in this discussion, just look back a couple of posts to Sounds In the Silence.I had just brought home my new Taylor GS. I'm addicted to Taylors. They just feel perfect in my hands. Unlike any guitar I've ever picked up. I won't get involved in a what's better, Martin or Taylor or whatever. Taylor is perfect for ME. So I keep buying them. This new one is a new body design with a fuller tone. A different flavor Taylor altogether. I got the maple/Sitka spruce model with the Expression System added so I can plug in at gigs. Don't want to smack that baby up against a microphone, ya know?
I finally got to sit down and try it at home the morning after I go it. I had just been reminding myself about augmented chords and I started to refamiliarize myself with them. D major to D augmented. Pretty. Some words I had started to write when Cathy was off on a trip last Thanksgiving started to come to mind but I couldn't' recall one single phrase. Just the essence of what I had been thinking. I like a little solitude but I don't like loneliness. I have a song on that subject on my first CD, To Be Alone. Lonliness is especially pronounced when you are submerged in someone's presence even when she is glaringly absent. So, mysteriously, this song poured out in another twenty minutes. I had to put down the new guitar and go to my computer with the Baby Taylor so as not to knock a big hunk of new tone wood into my desk. But here it is without benefit of a rewrite. I like the way this one sounds and I promise to do a quick and dirty demo as soon as I can. The drywall dudes are finished in my new studio. Flooring comes next!
CAN'T LEAVE MY MIND
Copyright 2006 by Bud Buckley
I feel you in all the places that you've been
I hear you in the silence, I hear you in the wind
In the dust I see the traces you left behind
You can leave anyplace but you can't leave my mind
I see you in the things you've left out of place
I see your creases in the chair and in the mirror I see your face
Well, everyplace you've been is everyplace you've left your sign
You can leave anyplace but you can't leave my mind
Bridge:
You blow through my hair here even when it's still
I feel you in everything you've touched
You seep into me against my will
Well I could try to fill these spaces with things that aren't you
I could decorate in colors of another hue
I could try to erase you from this place and time
But you can leave anyplace and you'll never leave my mind
Yeah, you can leave anyplace but you'll never leave my mind.
posted by Bud @ 10:33 PM
Comments:
Maybe if you blog about Taylor guitars often enough you'll get one for free from the company.
Give it a try. What's the worst that can ahppen?
Give it a try. What's the worst that can ahppen?
Bud, you've inspired me to pick up the guitar again. I'm taking up lessons again. IT feels good. thanks!! "I see your creases in the chair and in the mirror I see your face" <-- very haunting.
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