Okay so it's time let the fingers fly and chat a bit about musical processing, what that is like for me and specifically how it happened on the songs that are about to be released on my two C.D.'s Hey did I mention that I have two C.D.'s coming out? Did i mention that you can buy those? Just checking :)
Let Me Love you is the title cut for my EP. For those of you who, like me until recently, weren't familiar with the term EP, it stands for Extended Play. An EP contains more songs than a single, but less than the 8-10 of a full album. Anyway, Let Me Love You is an EP of 5 songs. Not all of the songs are love songs, but the title cut is. "Let Me Love You" is from the viewpoint of a lover, who has cast eyes and heart toward a beloved and is making a play for this beloved's affections. Let me love you is an expression that implies, "I want to know you, in ways that are both vast and intimate, but that's going to take you opening up the mysteries inside and letting me have access". It's about asking for vulnerability and trust with a pretty big promise attached. This lover is confident that she can deliver a love comparable to the skies, but only with help.
Like most of my musical forays, the song "Let Me Love You", was written in stages. It took months for it all to come together. I guess there are all kinds of songwriters out there, and if you are one of those songwriters for whom the music just floats out of the sky and you have the whole thing written and a demo recorded in about 10 minutes, you are not wanted here :)...but no, really I'm happy for you...sort of. The first bit of inspiration came on the piano, a series of chords in C minor. That's usually how it starts for me, messing around on the piano, though sometimes I write in the car, riding my bike or when I'm sweeping my kitchen floor. Never knew housework could be so inspiring! The verse came next within a day with minor tweeking. I liked the idea of talking about all the things that I can't do, like tame the wind, move the moon and balancing those ideas against what I could potentially do in a relationship. I really didn't know where the song was headed after that. It was probably at least 3 months before the chorus came, simple and direct, just "let me love you".
Take a listen at
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Lyrics below
I have no way to tame the wind
I cannot bottle up the sea,
but when it comes to loving you
I wanna dive into your mystery
I cannot move the moon through it's paces
I cannot sing the stars into synchrony,
but when it comes to loving you
I wanna know more than my eyes can see
Ooh, let me love you
Ooh, let me love you
wider than the sky
But when it comes to loving you
I wanna dive into your mystery
Ooh, let me love you
Ooh, let me love you
Ooh, let me love you
Ooh, let me love you
bluer than the sky
You get the idea :)
Comments definitely welcomed!
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For those of us who have the whole song written in 10 minutes. We can't really write a blog about it and we forget the tune 10 minutes later, So yeah, your way... much more interesting... it has story and process :)
ReplyDeleteGreat lyrics and music. Blessings -John
Of course I didn't mean that YOU aren't welcome John, and some of us process before we write..like in miniscule handwriting in our journals. so yeah...and the fact that you can write a 12 minutes song in 10 minutes is also mystery to me :)
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