This is a song written for this weeks "Body Part" challenge. Inspired by walks over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan.
These Feet Remember
These feet they still remember, everywhere they’ve been
To cross that span of steel
To where all our dreams begin
These feet they still remember,
Weathered planks of old
That welcome every pilgrim
Into its weary fold
Chorus:
Ohh, Ohh, Ohh, Ohh
These feet will carry me home
These feet they still remember, everywhere they go
They traipse along these sidewalks
Shadowed by our hungry ghosts
They remember, alleyways that wind
Beneath doorways whispering
Forgotten nursery rhymes
Chorus:
Ohh, Ohh, Ohh, Ohh
These feet will carry me home
Bridge:
Phantom beams embrace me
Bathed in cobblestones of light
Haunt these empty streets
in the purity of night
These feet they still remember,
All the places I have known
Beyond towers that empty
Into ashen skies so cold
They’ll remember, without having to be told
To brood upon these hallowed grounds
And let them sink into your soles
Chorus:
Ohh, Ohh, Ohh, Ohh
These feet will carry me home (3x)
@liz561 Mar 2022
Such lovely images in this song-and such intimate singing. We walked across the Williamsburg Bridge a couple of years ago and it was cool. You add such depth to the experience.
@nadine Feb 2022
Good song based on a classic theme. Your voice is the right to sing these lyrics. Great storytelling. Props for the lyrics. It's been challenging to write something based on body parts. Really!
@eas3637 Feb 2022
This song feels timeless to me - and such beautiful images! You've evoked the city powerful with lines like "phantom beams embrace me/bathed in cobblestones of light" and "Beyond towers that empty into ashen skies so cold". I'm so happy I found this song - thank you for sharing it!
@bethdesombre Feb 2022
I'm impressed with people who successfully render the body parts challenge without making it sound like something written for a quirky challenge. You definitely accomplish that. So many great lines here (including "Shadowed by our hungry ghosts") The simple chorus is perfect. The images/concepts (events) you walk through are evocatively rendered ("Beyond towers that empty/Into ashen skies so cold -- wow).
@seemanski Feb 2022
This is a perfect song to go for walk with. Great words and your vocal performance was top notch.
@writeandwrong Feb 2022
Oh, I just moved from Delaware where @the3queens and I walked on cobblestone our founders walked. And this reminded me of that. Hallowed grounds indeed, as is Gettysburg grounds and now that I'm in Texas, The Alamo. This is nice about that feeling you get when you walk on hallowed ground and you never forget that feeling. Nice write. Thanks for the memories :) Nice take on the challenge, too!
@keykeyg Feb 2022
good song. well done
@bradbrubaker Feb 2022
This feels written for transplants into big cities like me. It also could be someone whose seen the city change and grow over a series of decades. It also feels like "home" could be death. Either way, it's good.
@mardeycranbleson Feb 2022
I like what you’re doing with the chord progression I don’t think to my ears it’s anything I haven’t heard before but the way you play it and the rising part in the middle makes the whole thing sound so fresh. Melody is perfect and never sounds tired - really enjoyed this.
@tseaver Feb 2022
Nice write! The particularity of the details being rememberd (steel bridges, weathered planks, cobblestones) is dead on.
@jtsteam Feb 2022
I enjoyed that! However busy it is either side of a bridge, it can be remarkably peaceful (and, indeed, windy) in the middle. I haven't been to New York much but I don't remember finding many empty streets in the parts I visited :).
@stephenwordsmith Feb 2022
I hadn't even thought the act of crossing a modern steel bridge into one of the world's largest metropolises could be give such a folksy touch, but here we are. This was a soothing listen - gives the place a dusky stillness, an old-fashioned fireside huskiness that sits in stark contrast with what you see in the pictures. I like it a lot.
@ductapeguy Feb 2022
If there is such a genre a classic New York folk, this is it. The almost yodeled chorus is fantastic.