Feb 2022 not-metal one-take acoustic
sapient:
I read the lyrics to Nuance just after breakfast today and a strange thing happened - as I read, I started singing along to it.
This is doubly-unusual for me: I very rarely hear vocal melodies in lyrics, and I almost never try to actually sing ...
I knew I had to give it ago, so I picked up a guitar, recorded in one take with one mic, and here it is, as raw as it was at 7.40 this morning
Thank you, @stephenwordsmith, for giving me this inspiration.
It's the truth that you never saw coming
The naked behind the facade
The beacon of red bleeding in from the veil
Of night-time so brilliantly starred
It guides you down soft from your platform
And speaks of what you never knew
To take your mind's black and white borders
And fill all the grey with its hue
Like the words of a trespassing notice
Bleeding ultramarine
In the rain
Like the gash in the hide of a Zebra
Who escaped the lion's maw
Once again
Like the stroke of a pen on a crossword
Spilling all the wrong answers
With joy
Like the greenstone tucked under the collar
Of the uniform blouse
Of a boy
Like the last dying light in the new year
Of the bonfire's magnificent
Flame
Like the blush that remains in the cheekbones
Of your grandmother's face
In the frame
Like the fifty cent bead on the footpath
Taking up its new home
In a bracelet
Like the patches of lawn on a football
From each boot that attacked
Or embraced it
It's the truth that you never saw coming
The naked behind the facade
The beacon of red bleeding in from the veil
Of night-time so brilliantly starred
It guides you down soft from your platform
And speaks of what you never knew
To take your mind's black and white borders
And fill all the grey with its hue
@seppo Mar 2022
Gentle sapient.
This was beautiful in all it's simplicity.
@wolfkier Mar 2022
stephen, thanks for your kind words earlier, I'm here to tat your tit. Sadly you only want 1 exchange, but feel free to keep playing with me if you desire.
Such an A-list group of collabs in your songlist, I chose this one with sapient since he's also playing... so a 2for1 #tit4tat.
Really tender pensive treatment of of the black/white/gray theme, the bewilderment at the obvious gray in everything, in minute detail and image.
I think I struck a special one here. Well done both of you.
@metalfoot Feb 2022
Ah yes. The unexpected gentle side of sapient. Makes sense that this lyric would draw it out too! Just lovely, gents.
@jacobeverettwallace Feb 2022
You better watch out, sir. You'll be a folk artist before you know it with good stuff like this. Love the choices of chords and melody. What fun and unexpected collab!
@johnnycashpoint Feb 2022
Lovely! Great singing, on possibly a tricky tune to express right! I'm liking this "new uber sensitive sapient" very much. I would say I wanted it to kick off massively towards the end, but that's because I,m a clumsy interpreter of mood, which was so plaintive and massive in its own right, so, yeah, good work, sir!
@candle Feb 2022
Oh wow.
Raw for sure. Raw emotion. This is fabulous. What an amazing performance of @stephenwordsmith's lyrics. @sapient, you continue to amaze us all with the vast scope of your talent. You've been hiding this gentle side from all for all these years. I'm glad you're finally sharing it with us :D
See You In The Shadows…
@sph Feb 2022
Great take - it reminds me of Peter Hammill in his Solo concerts. The nakedness of only strummed chords and voice gives it a special urgency
@nancyrost Feb 2022
This really is a different take! For a start, the meter and accents are totally different, and totally work. I like the guitar strums and pauses between phrases ... and I love hearing your voice used so softly, very effective and meditative.
@ductapeguy Feb 2022
Well that was unexpected. And absolutely lovely.. i too have ha dthe experience of Stephen's lyrics jump right out at me with a melody. That is a beautiful collqb.
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
A great interpretation of Stephen's great poetic lyrics. I like the rawness of the presentation. Great job.
@stephenwordsmith Feb 2022
I enjoyed this very much. There is something about the rawness that commands attention. Lets the mind linger on the images and not get distracted by fancy layers, much as I like them.
The mood is different to Nancy's version. Yours has an earnest, almost zen-like quality as the 'enlightenment' is being processed. Nancy's suggests that, hey, insight is actually kinda nice. You're both right.
@speed0doyle Feb 2022
I think one take/one mics might be my favourite FAWM sub genre. This is a brilliant example of it
@rshakesp Feb 2022
Lots of suspense in this - it’s cool - leaves you waiting for the punchline - and makes you consume the whole song. It’s meditative in quality which I really like. Nice job