Originally Posted by musician17
Stunning. Honestly, stunning. I would recognise a song of yours miles away, I think.

Ok, the voice (if I am to nit-pick) doesn't quite do justice to the song. It's an artificial voice, what is one to expect? Certainly not perfection, in that regard ... the technology is simply not yet there. HOWEVER: my word. What. A. Beautiful. Song. Everything (other than the slightly imperfect rendition of the voice) is superbly done. The lyrics are beautiful, the melody is compelling, the musical writing is exceptional. Most of all, you tell a moving story, Noel. That's what you do with every song of yours; every song is different, yet every song invariably moves me to tears. This one's no exception.

Thank you for sharing your songs with us. You really are one of my utter favourite songwriters, not just on this forum, but anywhere. You post far too rarely for my liking, haha ... but, when you do share a song with us, I drop everything, I go listen, and I've never been disappointed. Again, thank you. You know how to move humans.

P.S. you were mentioning my "songbook" in a post you made, reacting to my last song. Well, speaking for myself at least, YOUR songbook puts mine (at least) to shame smile And that's never a bad thing ... I'm so happy to hear such beautiful music as yours is. Loved it, once more!
Hi James.

It's good to see you. Thank you heaps for visiting the thread and having a listen to my song. Honestly, I'm totally blown away by your comments (once again), and I don't know what to say (once again). I've spent a great deal of time over the years learning about lyrics.

When I started learning how to create lyrics in 2006, I had no idea what to do or how to do it. These days, I seem to have a much better understanding thanks to the works of Floyd Jane, reading a ton of books on lyrics and poetry, and seminars with Pat Pattison, Steve Seskin and Beth Nielsen Chapman (and a couple of others that I can't recall at the moment) smile My biggest hurdle was trying to understand how to make a lyric develop emotional intensity so that the unfolding journey becomes worthwhile for the listener. While I still have lots of room for growth in this last area, comments like yours help me see that I'm getting somewhere and that I should keep on persevering. That's why your comments are very valuable to me.

One of my personal songwriting aims is to be able to write a lyric journey as satisfying to listen to as Beth Nielsen Chapman's song, "Sand and Water". Every time I listen to this song, it's like the first time.


Thank you so much for listening and for all that you have said.
--Noel

P.S. My 'songbook' is non-existent laugh At least I have my songs saved in a couple of places in case my computer goes haywire.

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