Song #19 of 26 – On The Outside Looking In

Initial BIAB Style – _12STPOP – 12-String Guitar Pop

Track #1 – RealBass 683: Bass, Electric, PopHalfNotesPush Ev 120
Track #2 – RealDrums-PraiseWorshipPowerPush^1Qck,PHt
Track #3 – RealPiano 686: Organ, B3, Background Pop Ev 120
Track #4 – RealGuitar 1259: Guitar, Electric, Rhythm PopShiningRockA
Track #5 – RealStrings 1681: Guitar, 12-String Acoustic, Fingerpick
Track #6 – RT511: Guitar, Electric, Soloist Dire Ev 140
Track #7 – RT362: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Ev 085

Chris and John trade off lead vocals and John sing harmony, which was all run through Melodyne 4 to pull it a little better in tune, with slight reverb using Anwida Soft Reverb Light VST.


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On The Outside Looking In
by Christopher P. Werle and John E. Ford
Copyright 2003 by Christopher P. Werle and John E. Ford

1 I used to spend my time alone, thinking life had passed me by.
Never knowing, never caring where or what I'd been,
Only bound to wonder why. [to CHORUS]

CHORUS
But then I found your love and, oh, how my life changed.
I saw the light. Coming out of the darkness, my priorities were rearranged.
I could never go back to where I'd been, on the outside looking in.

2 I used to dwell upon the past chasing dreams that might have been.
Never growing, never learning what life held for me,
Holding all my fears within. [to CHORUS]

[Instrumental Solo]

BRIDGE
On the outside looking in when you feel true love begin,
No more looking over your shoulder.
When your heart shows you the way, Lord knows, you win.

3 I fin'lly turned my life around, learned to give love from within.
Now I know and have the things I never would have found
On the outside looking in

ENDING
On the outside looking in. [Repeat 3x]


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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.

John

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