Feb 2022 folk acoustic country singer-songwriter confessional love-song one-take
I wrote the lyrics a few nights ago but let this sit for a few days in part because I don't really feel like doing anything right now and second to try to figure out if it was worth adding anything, but I think it's complete enough as it is.
I get the cold sweats looking up, like looking up to the roof of a building out the window, though I don't have the same sort of reaction looking down.
My wife proposed to me, not the other way around, so this is only partly autobiographical.
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This is an actual one-take with a single mic. I'm still shaky on actually singing or playing it but I just don't want to put more time into it right now. It might have actually have been better on the piano, I'll have to see.
Despite the paucity of lyrics, the song's almost 4 minutes long, so I might have to play it faster or just cut some of the instrumental, I dunno. I had actually thought it was going to come in under 3 minutes which is sort of where I'd like for it to be.
G C D
I could barely reach any branch
G C D
Ten feet’s a mile when you’re small
G C
I reeled seeing blue through the needles
D7 G
Though I wasn’t afraid to fall
G C D
And each year the pine tree got shorter
G C D
And the branches got closer together
G C D
I didn’t think I’d stay a child forever
C D7 G
But I still have x this fear of looking up
I held gravity tight in my hands
As the engine startled the birds
When the wheels left the runway I shuddered
And I went halfway around the world
Some want to stay children forever
But sometimes you have to grow up
So love I have to ask you this question on one knee
To get over my fear of looking up
@nancycunning Mar 2022
I like your playing and singing a lot. I also like all the concrete images you use to surround your emotional message.
@hsp Feb 2022
I like it just the way you did it, un adulterated with the lyrics up front. And most importantly the message hitting home in the last verse, IMHO, every once in a while you need to tear up the rule book and scoff at convention to speak the truth effectively. Leave it alone, it's a masterwork.
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
These are great lyrics to tell such an open to interpretation story, yet give so many visuals to cling onto. Great playing and singing, even if it was only a rushed take. I'm getting such emotion coming through your guitar playing. Nice job.