Songs in the Raw! Oct 27, 2007

I deeply regret that I am going to be unable to RECORD songs for the next couple of weeks. I am heading to Nashville for family and business and then on to New Orleans for football and family. I'm very exited to be back in Nashville. I am recording a video for the first single on me next record. I'm also meeting with "Music Industry People" talking about distribution and promotion for my new CD. It will be a learning experience, no doubt.

So, in order to keep up with my weekly SONGS IN THE RAW, I am posting THREE songs this week. I'm also going to be writing from the road and I'll be back in the home studio as soon as I get home again.

Let me just tell you about the three songs;

"Live in my Hell" is another song about the Haight Street "people". I pass them all day long as I get coffee, run to the grocery store, buy some t-shirts, pizza, whatever. I wrote this song as I day dreamed out the window with my guitar in my hand. It's my song about what I think it might be like living on the street. There is so much that can go wrong in this life. Almost anyone can end up in a bad way. I pray that it never happens to me.

"Seeing This Girl" is a true story about a girl that I dated briefly. She was a bartender at one of my local haunts. As it turned out, she was dating a local rock star who was on tour all the time. I guess she was bored and had nothing better to do, so she went on a few dates with me. She actually said that she "sort of" had a boyfriend, but he wouldn't mind if we went out. We never kissed, we never did anything except dinner. She really just cost me a lot of money....that's about it.

"Heaven Tonight" is a song that I wrote watching the sun go down. What can I say, I am mystified by the sun and the moon and the changing of the seasons and all that crap! It reminds me of what it means to be human and alive on the earth.

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Songs in the Raw - Oct 21 - "Perfect Reason"

I had a friend request a topic for this week's installment. I love that! I hope that more people reach out and send me their suggestions. I can always use a new idea. My brain is small and overworked as it is. I lost a lot of it in the 1990's and what I have left is burned in the wee-hours of baby feeding. I anticipate a later life of drooling and blank stares. And I'm talking about next year!

At any rate, my friend finds herself in a situation that I've seen in a lot of my friends over the years. A series of bad relationship decisions by smart people, who should know better, leading to questioning whether or not they could ever find that "one true love". I see it happen all the time. It takes a variety of forms, but the one that I am focusing on is the person who only wants what is unavailable or that does not want them. I guess they're the same thing, cause in the end.....never gonn get it...never gonna get...never get it!

As an observer, it's easy to see that this type of behavior is a way to avoid confronting the internal issues of why they're not happy. It's easy to blame a doomed relationship. "They lived out of state". "They wouldn't divorce their wife". "They just got out of a serious relationship". "They are focused on their work".....there are a bunch more excuses. They all add up to "unavailable". Most of the time, if not all of the time, this information was known from the onset. Deep down inside, it was a way out. A way to run away without holding yourself accountable.

Anyway, I wrote like 2 songs about that type of thing, but wasn't really happy about the finished product.....so I didn't end up writing about that at all. But, it did lead me to the a pretty cool little song about how sometimes the best relationships, and usually the most successful relationships, are between two people who are "opposite" in many ways, but find that together, they complete each other.

This week's song is called "Perfect Reason". I've also added a bonus track called "With Me". It's what I like to call a "little diddy".

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Songs in THE RAW!! Oct 13, 2007 "Never Had a Reason"

Hey there everybody. I'm back for another week of SONGS IN THE RAW! - Songwriter on a Mission.

I approached this week's song a little differently. I'm sort of experimenting with different ways to create a song. This week I tried to keep the melodic and chord structure simple...I guess they're always simple, but this week with it's simple with intention. Then I went after the lyrics with the idea of a non-existant rhyme scheme. Sure there are a few rhymes here and there, but I stayed away from ABAB and other more traditional schemes. The result was something a little off MY beaten path. Probably not so unusual for some writers.

This week's song is called "Never Had a Reason". I took the idea for the lyrics from a realationship that I was in a long time ago where the girl I was dating cheated on me...more than once...and was LESS THAN COOL TO ME. Really, she was crazy! i was was young and stupid and hadn't figured out yet that college was for cheating and being cheated on...isn't that right?

It sort of stems from the idea that the person who is cheating is the person who accuses the other person of cheating. If you can't trust yourself, you can't trust your partner. If your the one being faithful, you generally don't think about the other person being unfaithful. At least that's the way that I've found things to work.

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Songs in the Raw! Oct 6, 2007

"The biggest shame of it all is no one's running after her" is the chorus line for this week's song. I know people who are self destructive in many ways, but it's most evident in their relationships...or lack there of. I wrote this week's song based on a person I used to know well. She would rather run away than become too close. Close enough for it to hurt when she was dumped or cheated on. She found it easier to run away. She never kept too many belongings. It seemed like her suitcase was always packed.

No...she was not my girlfriend. I just found it to be such a shame that some one could sabotage their own life in such a way. Maybe it was because she didn't know how to be happy. Maybe she didn't know how to love herself first. Maybe she hated herself....I should have asked her those questions, but it might be awkward to do it now. Just call her up and say, "why don't you love yourself ?" She's probably happily married with 3 kids living in the suburbs playing golf twice a week and an upstanding member of the PTA.

HEY....it's just a song! And it's called "Torn Duffle of Dreams". The kind of duffle that has seen thousands of miles and been over stuffed a hundred times.

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