Song Number 2

Former Lovers

Co-write with Elizabeth Petty

This lovely lyric, full of images, was submitted by Elizabeth Petty. Originally I wrote the chords and melody using a country waltz style. This suited the song but it sound too much like a hymn. So I changed the style to "Pop Hall string quartet" and with a slight change in my delivery the song was transformed.

I am not sure that I am altogether happy with the chorus of this. It sounds more like a bridge than a chorus. I had to do some serious wangling on the production to make it "fit". Even now I am not sure that it fits.

However, I have spent far more time than I wanted and for the sake of 50 90, it is probably best to put it to bed and maybe return to it with a fresh mind at a later stage.

Our love is shaped by distance traveled
The ground we’ve covered time invested
Our life is framed by former lovers
They have designed us

Our love is made by glasses emptied
And thoughts are colored tokens counted
Our souls are cast by former lovers
For they can see us

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former lovers shaped and made us
former lovers changed and built us
former lovers they came and left us
Strong enough to love again
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our love is changed by baggage carried
Storms we’ve suffered ropes unraveled
Our bodies moulded by former lovers...
They have defined us

Our life is built by mindset tempered
The truth discovered phrases swallowed
Our breath is changed by former lovers
For they have made us

Tracks:
Bass: 1394
Drums: Jazz Brushes
Super Midi piano track (and Dimension Pro) 2192
Guitar 1984:
Strings: 2452
Swing Tamborines 8ths

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