https://soundcloud.com/lawrence-olivier/its-the-simple-things-remix

If you've ever heard of the state of "mindfulness" then this song might make sense. Lyrically inspired by a night of listening to Tom Waits, I wrote the lyric in fits over the course of a night and when I woke up I picked up the guitar and the music wrote itself as I read it back. It's a simple story of a circus that comes to town and sets up in a rainstorm. and the character goes from lying down to sitting up to walking across his room to looking out of his window at the first tent of the circus.

I added a thunderstorm and doubled a piano panned hard left and right. Left is dry and right is wet with reverb, then I recorded the song live - vocal and guitar, and stuck it in the middle.


I could stand here all night/ I could sit here all day
I don't know what I'm doing/ and I like it that way
There's a fan on my ceiling/ right where it should be
It's the simple things in life/ It's the simple things

I keep pennies in a jar I have two piano keys
I've got a crazy brother who gave them both to me
there's a window in my wall right where it should be
It's the simple things in life It's the simple things

Mother oh Mother/ where did I go wrong
was it something I said/ is it something I've done
look where this twisted road/ has taken me
did you know they use cement/ to bind the concrete
There's a footprint beneath me/ right where it should be
It's the simple things in life/ It's the simple things

I could stare at the sun I could lie 'neath the moon
I hear that the circus will be here soon
there's a tent in a field right where it should be
It's the simple things in life It's the simple things