Originally Posted By: rsdean
Lawrence,

Wow! Totally blown away... This is just great - love the lyrics, the way the arrangement builds, and an outstanding vocal. 2 chords - mission accomplished. A new favorite...

Bob
Well Bob, thank you very much. I'm happy you enjoyed it. I've waited four years to record it so I'm happy to hear it's appreciated.


Originally Posted By: Pat Marr

what Bob said! And I'm not surprised that the resident poet responded so favorably... the lyrics to this are very poetic!

Interesting that you started with a challenge of a minimal set of chords and got it to work.

Also you have a very powerful voice, and this song shows it off quite well!
Thank you Pat. I definitely just allowed the poetic voice take the reins on this one. And Bob is masterful with this style.

One of my most prolific song writing periods was when I was in a songwriters group around 2010- 2011. We met monthly and always left with a challenge whether it was musical, lyrical, stylistic or whatever we could come up with. This song was not part of that group but the challenge idea of a single chord song came out of that.

As to my voice I can only say that several years ago my girlfriend at that time introduced me to her Uncle who had a PHD in music. We all spent Christmas together in 2010 and she asked me to play some songs for him. When I was done he made comments about this and that but then he stopped and gazed deeply into my eyes and said whatever you do always sing with your full voice and I've been contemplating that ever since.