Song #1 of 26 – Back To YouInitial BIAB Style - _12STACS – Slow 12-String Acoustic Guitar w/ Band
Track #1 – RealBass 700: Bass, Electric, PopHalfNotesPush Ev 085
Track #2 – RealDrums-NashvilleEven8^5-HiHat, Ride
Track #3 – RealPiano 365: Guitar, Acoustic Fingerpicking Ev 085
Track #4 – RealGuitar 1118: Guitar. 12-StringAcoustic, Strumming Ev
Track #5 – RealStrings 588: Sax, Tenor, 2-Beat Rock Ev 110 (Bluesy)
Track #6 – RT2051: Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking CountryBrent Ev 085
Track #7 – Electric Piano MIDI track using Mr Ray’s 73MkII Electric Piano VSTi
Track #8 – Strings Pad MIDI track using Sonivox Orchestral Companion Strings VSTi (Ensemble Strings selection)
Chris sings lead vocal and John sings the harmony vocal; vocals were all run through Melodyne 4 to pull them a little better in tune, with slight reverb using Anwida Soft Reverb Light VST.
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Back To Youby Christopher P. Werle and John E. Ford
Copyright © 2005 by Christopher P. Werle and John E. Ford
1 Looking at the world today,
It seems that we've gone astray; drifting further away from You.
Little children cry, mother, why oh why, can't we have what others do.
[to CHORUS]
CHORUS
And Lord, I'd have to say,
"It seems that we've lost our way down a lonesome road, it's true.
Shine Your light before us that we might see the path that leads us back to You."
2 Hunger, strife, and wars
Claim what's mine and Yours, leaving nothing there but pain.
Precious moments gone, leave a silent dawn, and the mournful call of rain.
[to CHORUS]
BRIDGE
Lord, lead us back to You, this day, for we know not what we do.
Shower us with grace before time slips away;
Let Your healing power shine through.
3 Looking at the world today
I pray that we find our way; ever closer, Lord, to You.
Where little children play and people smile and say,
"Brother how can I help you?"
[to 2nd CHORUS]
2nd CHORUS
And Lord, I hope some day
That we will all find our way down a road that's right and true.
With Your light before us, we all will see the path
That leads us back to You. Lord, lead us back to You.
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Since I’ve been teleworking since March 2020 (as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic), that has afforded me time at home to work on all the original songs my buddy Chris Werle and I (John Ford) have written. Chris wrote the lyrics, chords, and melody. I then transcribe it into notation, since Chris doesn’t read music. I then write the harmonies, most of the instrumental solos and/or counter melodies, arrange all the instruments, and put everything together.
All songs started in Band-in-a-Box (and some of them are over 20 years old). Then they were worked up in either PowerTracks Pro or RealBand. Since Chris and I live in different states now, I had to rely on previously recorded vocals and his guitar playing from old PowerTracks or RealBand .SEQ files. Because of limitations in RealBand with some VSTi’s, I did have to export the some of the MIDI tracks out of RealBand and render them to audio in Cakewalk (for those that RealBand didn’t render properly), after which I would bring the audio back into RealBand. But most of the songs and the final mix were exclusively rendered from RealBand.
My goal here is to post one song each day until all 26 of the songs have been posted. Some have been posted previously, but I have gone back and reworked all of them, so they are all new mixes and are different from what was originally posted.
Most of the songs are Christian in nature, so if that’s not your thing, that’s fine. But it’s our thing. So without further ado, here is the music.
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