Feb 2022 acoustic guitar acoustic-one-take
This is a collab with a friend on TikTok. He wrote the guitar bit a while ago and named it “For The Red Poppy”. I’m adding the vocals for FAWM.
A promise
Made in hardship
Like you'll never go hungry again
An intention
To move forward
Declaring your past has been reckoned with
Oh how you
The beautiful fool
Certain that you'll forge ahead
Clasping small tokens
Of the places you've been
Insisting you'll never return once you've left
Like a red poppy
A transient memorial
That blooms in wake of tragedy
And slowly fades each passing year
The memory
Of pains that you cannot let go
Assuming it still means something
To your childen who have never known
Look at you
You beautiful fool
Certain that the past is gone and dead
At any sign
it might still be alive
There's no mountain you won't upend
For the red poppy
You'll turn your whole world upside down
To know you have not run afoul
Of the dark history you have bound
To that tiny flower
Forgetting that when it's so small
It's like it never happened
It's like it never happened at all
@bobbyjovalentine Feb 2022
"A transient memorial
That blooms in wake of tragedy" Wow, seriously wow, thanks for this
@bethdesombre Feb 2022
Love the melody on the B part, and I love both the phrase and concept of "transient memorial" -- nicely deployed. and what the last stanza does with that red poppy metaphor is excellent (and the last "it's like it never happened"s. This is great!
@lenigmusx1 Feb 2022
Very nice stuff! The vocal is outstanding. Just a well crafted song. Well done.