singing birds on the street, and all is well,
storm's coming up to fill it
sky is white, the colour of hope,
the colour of surrender
surrender, love, surrender
-
have a drink with the lads, and lasses fair
we'll toast you with the last
stood here like lines of a song
lined up to surrender
surrender, love, surrender
-
hold on to all you need
and all that you know
i'll hold on to you, and then
we let go
-
now the rain's on the ground, the road's aglow
footlights on a stage
curtain falls, then curtain calls
calling for surrender
surrender, love, surrender
-
hold on to all you know
and all that you need
i'll hold on to you, and then
we -
surrender, love, surrender
-
-
yesterday was a good day. i got some stuff done. worked on the new songs, tweaking words and trying to memorize. then i got an email offerring a wee gig from the folks at Mariposa, chuffed that they thought of me. life is good.
i was standing on the porch, where i often get inspiration, listening to the birds' beautiful "there's a storm coming" racket.
sure enough, the first line came to me, and i had the verse in a few minutes.
the rolling waltz rhythm felt really good, like a drinking song. so the second verse had to start with "have a drink.." this verse has proved the most difficult to finish, which is often the way - the first verse comes easily, but with it i impose the form on the remaining verses. it's harder to fit words to a structure than to have the words create it.
i thought about making it a verse-only song, as the fifth-line "tag" acts as something of a mini-chorus, but decide it needed a bridge, to add interest.
the bridge felt good, but after i wrote the last verse, i wanted to repeat it, so it became a chorus. typical for me, though, i changed it - sorry, folks, i know you like the repetition, but it's not really a sing-alongable refrain.
i switched the need/know lines to give me a rhyme for the one-word last line, "we - " which hangs there for a moment before i wrap with the tag line. feels good.
