Feb 2022 alternative pseudo-bossa-nova love-song
@seanbrennan: During FAWM 2019, Andrew wrote a gorgeous instrumental piece for his wife that had a little bit of everything from their shared favorite styles - gentle rock, funk, and lots of Hammond organ. He felt it needed lyrics, and I provided a set that I could kind of co-dedicate to a girl I'd been seeing for just under a year. I had to make the lyrics vaguely pleasant - not something to scare her away, poor thing. Well... we're engaged now, and I decided to be a little less guarded this time around. Andrew, as always, gives life to my bare-bones arrangements with his melodic sensibilities on solos. I'm planning to add a few string layers from the solo on, and backing vocals after the solo. Happy Valentine's Day, FAWM community!
@deadhead: Man, Bossa Nova and I do not mix. It doesn't sound that bad, but it sure as heck felt really unnatural while playing. There are so many more phrases I'd have loved to play behind the vocals as well but couldn't since I was too busy remembering when to play the chords...
Track Credits
Sean Brennan: lead vocals, bass, cajon
Andrew Russell: piano
Lyrics by Sean Brennan.
Music by Lavish Dude.
Long after the sun has left the sky
When the streetlights blossom into view
And the city serenades the restless denizens of darkness
My mind and my heart come to rest on you
The cafés draw their doors 'til tomorrow
A sleepy silence fills the air
Sleep softly now and let your dreams be filled with endless peace
Tomorrow my love will still be there
I'd climb a hundred thousand mountains
Just to reach your fifth-story door
So many stories left to write
You're the only one I want to write them for
And when the morning light returns
The waking city starts to see
Through the buzzing crowds and city sounds and avenues of adventure
Wherever you need me, that's where I'll be
@mandolinda Mar 2022
This is a very nice song. I like the bossa- nova beat. Lyrics fit well with the piano track., and Sean, your voice is quite pleasant to listen to.
#tit4tat
@ofishell Mar 2022
This song is so delicately sincere and beautifully written, both from the instrumentation as well as the accompanying lyrics. It can genuinely be difficult to write love songs that don't sound forced, but you've managed it perfectly. Such a delightful find.
@wolfkier Mar 2022
Ok, I'm in the airport hotel lounge at Phoenix Skyhigh, sipping my bourbon and branch and wondering when my destiny will change by chance coincidence and this song comes on, and I'm grooving along, then, just as my destiny walks through the door, that very cool piano solo starts and i'm so spellbound, by the time it's over, wouldn't you know it, destiny's encuontered the traveling industrial HVAC salesman dude, who's tonedeaf and holds a roadweary cynicism of love songs.... Good stuff. Took me away. That's your only job.
#tit4tat . Are we still trading? Did you reach your max with me?
@chrisshepard Mar 2022
Oooo! I started this song over and had a music video playing over it of very ethereal, moody atmospheric music and this took on a really surreal existence! Don't lose this song.
@chrisshepard Mar 2022
Love it! Can you come over play during dinner?
@standup Mar 2022
Nice scene-setting. I feel like you're wandering the after-hours streets with your sweetheart. And what a sweet story. 5 stories-- that's a commitment. I like that you follow that with stories left to write. More than 5.
I like it when the piano takes off, really nicely done.
100,000 mountains. Dang.
The title is also beautiful.
@jtsteam Mar 2022
Nice feel to this. And there's some fun playing with language in the lyrics (two meanings of "story" next to each other is neat, for example). I have the feeling of a band playing this while I'm sitting relaxing in a bar. Nice collaboration! #ListeningSkirmish
@thedutchwidows Mar 2022
This is delightful; the music is so well done and stylistically spot on - I can imagine myself in a smoky bar (maybe not a smoky bar, you can't smoke indoors anymore, I'll settle for just a bar), G&T in hand listening to this. The bass and cajon are superb - the bass particularly so - and the piano is great. The lyrics are fantastic - there's such an art to writing a love song that doesn't come off as cynical, and this nails it. Lines like "So many stories left to write, you're the only one I want to write them for" hit the bullseye. Really nicely sung - super laid back delivery that suits the style. I really want to go to a bar now. Very nicely done! #ListeningSkirmish
@burrsettles Feb 2022
cajon! i've been wanting to build up a percussion arsenal. nice jazzy turns in this one. i'm a fan of this concrete imagery that's like a bunch of polaroids of the relationship, and the music here is the soundtrack to that montage. happy valentine's day (a few days belated now)...
@roysmith Feb 2022
Love the understated vocal on this, it sits gently on a great bit of piano to give an eaaaasy feeling...Nice work
@rkeeling75 Feb 2022
This might be the best bossa nova track I've heard all FAWM. To be fair, its the first one I've listened to this FAWM.
Thank you for making it a good one. :-)
Well done.