It's been a while since I've posted a song here with the things that were going on earlier this year... it's been a struggle at times.

This song style is a little bit different for me, but it was fun trying to make it work. It's kind of a melancholy dark song. Recorded with a very basic, stripped down to the essentials kind of a mix. There is one vocal track, one piano track, and one pad track. I did add a bass using the pad to the second version.

The particulars: This was a song that I was unable to get a good Band in A Box style to match so I eventually gave up after several weeks of trying. So yeah, this is not using any BB tracks. I really did expend a lot of effort to try to get this into a useable style but nothing was working. I decided to simply play all the parts myself. Solaria is singing it, I'm playing the piano and the pad strings/bass. The piano is the Kontakt Medium Grand and the pad/bass is the Dimension LE warm pad. It was very refreshing to put the guitar down for a while and let myself have fun on the piano.

OBSERVATIONS: Two versions: One is simply piano and pad with no bass until the last note. Second version has bass in the choruses. Let me know which you like better. I hear a few nits in this and if there's something that sticks out to you, let me know. Also, I wasn't quite sure what to call it. Shattered Reflection or Strength To Carry On but for now..... it's "Strength To Carry On"

All comments and critiques are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

It's good to be back!!!



Strength To Carry On

Strength To Carry On ( with bass )



Lyrics:


Strength To Carry On


(V 1)
Lost and broken
Searching for a way
Through the wreckage of another day
Survivors struggling
Hearts in disarray
But we're still standing
Come what may

(V 2)
Eyes filled with tears
That we can't hide
Our heavy hearts
Like anchors deep inside
In this journey of grief
Where we often collide
But we keep moving
Side by side

(Chorus)
With every step we stumble and we fall
But we rise We rise above it all
In this shattered reflection We find strength to carry on
Even as our broken heart's bleed
We stand strong against the storm
But we rise We rise above it all
In this shattered reflection We find strength to carry on

break....

(V1) repeat

(V 3)
In the silence of night
We face our fears
The scars we bear
Tell the tales of our tears
In this darkness
We see the light
Guiding us through
We keep moving
Side by side

(Chorus)

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