N-lo sent me some enchanting piano chords that inspired this week’s post.  The words are from a combination of thoughts, prompted by travel to Philadelphia to see my pal, Danny.

 

So, I really was in Nashville this week, and forgot I had this baby in the hopper from last week.  Working on my diction —hope the lyrics are easier to hear through the twang of the strat.

Listenin’ to your heart is easy with family.  Bee and Gary stopped by and Timmy made the trek.

We like the set lighting better, and found the groove.  Lyrics below.  We still have to get the vocals

up so words are discernable.

verse

Standin in the River with a Chainsaw

Caught between, fire and ice.

Dragonflies winkin with their fragile wings

I can see the look in their eyes

 

Chorus

Wake me up if you want to

Put your hand on my head

But dont tell me what I gotta believe

I’ll listen to my heart instead

I put my blade in the water

and paddled, just as fast as I can

out to the ocean where papyrus boats

with sirens, that make me feel like a man

Chorus

I can see forever through the wasteland

but forever can be a mirage

you got to keep the door wide open

and there wont be a facade

Chorus

N-lo and I re-worked this and I added some local footage —a beeootiful day in Hampton, NH

Week two of the Cyberspace Troubadour blog.  This week’s post is a song by M.C. Archer.  Many thanks to M.C. for rolling into Poseidon’s Crypt for a little fiddling and verse.  She had some lyrics and after a few iterations we found some accompaniment.  Here are the lyrics:

You can take me out to dinner

You can take me out to lunch

You can drown me with your liquor

but I have a little hunch

 

That you will be another number

Just a notch upon my belt

Cos the harder that you try

The less I will have felt

 

Chorus:

You see you don’t know who your dealing with

My heart is made of stone

I’ll chew you up and spit you out

You’re game be overthrown

I’m a siren of the modern day

Too quick for you to see

Before I slip away into the night

Taking your heart with me.

 

Your ignorance is sickening

Love is blind they say

I almost feel sorry for you

But i’m sure you’ll get it back some day

 

Cos this confidence you have

that you can sweep me off my feet

will swiftly turn and slap you in the face

and have you bleeding in the street

 

Chorus:

YOu see you don’t know who youre dealing with

my heart is made of stone

I’ll chew you up and spit you out

You’re game be overthrown

I’m a siren of the modern day

Too quick for you to see

Before I slip away into the night

Taking your heart with me

 

break

 

See this lonesome road I travel

is a lonely road indeed

I’ve been down that trail called heartbreak

Where vultures on your soul will feed

 

So I’ll maintain my independence

driving force behind my power

If you can manage to see the light of day

I won’t be your darkest hour

 

Chorus:

You see you don’t know who you’re dealing with

my heart is made of stone

I’ll chew you up and spit you out

If you don’t leave me alone

For while I have turned demon

A glimpse of hope will shine some day

But for you my friend time has run out

as on your desparate soul I prey

This is my inaugural post, on February 19, 2012.  Still working on the “set”, but plan on sharing the music on a regular basis.  This song emerged in the last couple of weeks.  Who knows what inspired it, but it feels right.

“A Place For Going Home” emerged one Saturday morning after a gig at Gravity Tavern in New Boston.  Nick and I shot it from the front seat of my Volvo, after a big snowstorm last winter.