The Lookout Tree (SoundCloud)
The Lookout Tree (YouTube)

Here is my recent song with a boring subject - no breakups or bad leaders wink I was just inspired by a tree I often walk past and look to see if one of my favorite birds, Great grey shrike, is in its top. Not so often, but I always get happy when this happens. Or actually there are several tree in this area... I had almost finished the video for the song, but I was missing shots of the path and the motorway nearby and I went there. My bird wasn't there in the top of the tree that was the subject of this story, but that didn't bother me, I got the material I needed. But when I turned around, I found my bird in the top of another tree. I felt really lucky smile BTW. The other birds I've seen in the tree and can be seen in the video are Eurasian goshawk and Hobby.

My original intention was to make a a progressive rock song that would sound like produced by Alan Parsons, but as always happens, I didn't have enough ambition to achieve my vision. So what is left is just a pale imitation, but in my own style and production. No Suno, but pure BIAB beauty. AI was used only for word choice suggestions (for example, "moves" => "rustle"), no AI used in the video - the bird and the wood vole shots are all by me.

RealDrums: YachtRockAiryLA
RealTracks:
#3588 Electric Bass
#1264 Acoustic Piano
#4139 Electric Guitar Held
#4132, #4453 Electric Guitar Arp
#4129 Electric Guitar Distorted Sync
#5018 Electric Guitar Chug
#3725 Electric Guitar Arp Phsser
#4757 Electric Guitar Solo Metal

MIDI: #4439 Synth Arp

Vocals: Synthesizer V Liam (lead), Choir Voices 3 (backing)

Mixed in Cakewalk Sonar (Ozone 12, Neutron 5, Cascadia, Neoverb)

Lyrics:

Still standing in the headwind
along my morning walkway
no shading leaves
since thriving days
but serves a wide
observing view
the reason for your stay.

Eyes locked upon the rodents
every day's your workday
but beware those metal boxes
rushing down the highway.

Up in the lookout tree
countless hours
determined to see
that patience would pay
the morning buffet
for the bird of prey.

It's been rooted there for decades
I've known it just for few years
yet I have learned
don't go too near
but let its guests
perceive in peace
the rustle they must hear.

There are moles but shadowed hunters
dangers by the hillside
you're weighing risks and chances
the lessons of the hawk-eyed.

Up in the lookout tree
countless hours
determined to see
that patience would pay
the morning buffet
for the bird of prey.

Whose watch is it today?
A falcon or a shrike
maybe an osprey
stalking a pike.
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Janne

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