There's construction going on outside my building on weekdays, with the 'beep beep beep' of reversing vehicles, so I sat down at the keyboard, found a pleasant electric piano sound, and wrote this and recorded the instruments this morning, waited until the workers were done to record the vocals.
No 'pink' in this Valentine song!
The name is from my first FAWM Challenge!
Emerald Fire copyright 2022 Michael J Birch
In the morning light
Your eyes shine green
And you say, ‘No, they’re hazel’
I won’t disagree
They are how they seem
And you give me a smile so playful
When the sun is setting
Your eyes change to brown
You say, ‘I’m sure you’re mistaken’
With the sun’s last golden rays
In your eyes I could drown
And I can only give this explanation
Deep inside there’s an emerald fire
Of passion, love and desire
Lifted ever higher and higher
Burning with an emerald fire
Peering close, I see flecks of gold
A wizened soul, both young and old
An array of colors – aqua, blue and green
Prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen
Deep inside there’s an emerald fire
Of passion, love and desire
Lifted ever higher and higher
Burning with an emerald fire
Burning with an emerald fire
@raspberry33 Feb 2022
Amazing how much you can learn from looking into someone's eyes. And how often people never get to that level of connection! Great tune. Next time I wake up to the back-up beeps of trucks (which will likely be tomorrow...), I'm going to try your approach of writing a tune instead of just grumbling.
@edward9thstreet Feb 2022
Oh I just hate those backup alarms. A misguided concept that does 10x more harm than good. How you came up with this during that is impressive. Pretty melody and great lyric. Nice job, Mike.
@colgoo Feb 2022
Mike….I had no idea you were going to write a love letter to my eyes, but I am truly touched. Beautiful!
@lissielou79 Feb 2022
I love the lyrics in this song and the overall production sounds really floaty and cool.
@elainedimasi Feb 2022
A terrific valentine song! Agree with all the great comments by others.
@markg Feb 2022
What a sweet song!
Your vocals are so expressive and loving.
Such a great device for the song--changing colors of the eyes--that develops a beautiful love expression.
So well done, one of my favorite FAWM songs so far.
@mjv Feb 2022
beautiful, love the imagry
@geoff61 Feb 2022
Beautiful lyric Mike, nice simple song, heartfelt vocal too :-)
@joefahey Feb 2022
Great piano sound and I love when the strings come in and fill out the arrangement. Cool song with a strong delivery.
@pianoonthepatio Feb 2022
I love the word-painting you did with colours and age here.
"Peering close, I see flecks of gold
A wizened soul, both young and old
An array of colors – aqua, blue and green
Prettiest eyes I’ve ever seen"
beautiful arrangement!
@chroes Feb 2022
This somehow evokes Jim Steinman feelz, maybe the meandering piano... Your slightly raspy voice is just perfect here, it grounds the whole song in the most beautiful way. It's a gorgeous, dreamy song, enjoyed it very much.
@arkka Feb 2022
Nice progression, great melody, got some Beatles vibes from this. Nice arrangement too, the strings sound great!
@leslie333 Feb 2022
This is really gorgeous. Amazing you could come up with this with all the beep beep beep. Love 'emerald fire'.