The Shaman Song - a work in progress

The Shaman Song

http://iacmusic.com/songs.aspx?SongID=72169&ArtistID=30211

RIP, dad.

The Shaman song

Watching you, late at night, asleep

Wondering what the future will bring

I can hear the clock, on the wall

Nurse- come see what it means.

All around, people come and go

I don't know where they came from

And I don't know what they know

But I

Very moving. I love the drawn out tempo of the vocals and the vocals themselves...

The first two verses are so evocative... even though they're straightforward. Sometimes plain speaking can be the most profoundly moving.

The bridge verse(s) takes us to a new plane (somewhat literally), the musical change-up supports the radical shift in lyrics pretty nicely, I think, though it's a big jump from the plainspoken observations of the first two verses.

I don't know how long ago your dad passed away -- my dad died more than 22 years ago but in some ways it feels like yesterday -- but your song helps me feel and share your loss. My condolences, whenever the loss.

I think you've found a moving way to mark his passing and to celebrate his life.

Very nice song... The best verse for me is:

''All around, people come and go

I don't know where they came from

And I don't know what they know

But I

blue-

thanks for the detailed listen.

its' funny, you mention the straightforward lyric...

- part of my idea, of writing this lyric, was to make it be literal, and allegorical, at the same time...

a few hours before my father died, we found a lizard in the room.

far from any outside door, it would have had to run the gauntlet to get to his room, in the center of the hospice ward.

after i picked it up to take it outside, i walked around the building to get back to the front entrance, and right over the center of my father's only room window, was a huge luna moth.

none of this was lost on me at the time, since my father has cherokee blood...

and so in retrospect of writing the lyric, i guess that part of the lyric is literal as well.

he died this past april 1st.

i'm extremely glad, that you found a way to use my song for yourself, the highest compliment anyone could give me.

thanks.

ALyricman -

yes, the song is depressive.....!

LOL

you know, it's kinda one of those things you just can't get away from....

seems like, i gotta have these kinds of songs, to balance out the completely useless or fun or irrereverent OTHER stuff i do!

either way, thanks for listening.

last bump before it's gone...

Yeah... I'm a hard headed realist who nonetheless believes the world is a magical place. The Hermetics said, "As above, so below," meaning that they felt the macrocosm of universe was reflected somehow in the microcosm of the soul and that all around us were such relationships. In Chaos Theory, as viewed in the study of fractals, we seem to see the same correspondences... patterns repeat, small and large, diverging a little, but returning to seemingly archetypal forms, slowly unfolding and evolving by changes large and small and, yet, those forms seem to emerge and re-emerge as we change the scope of our observation...

Can't listen at work, but kudos. I can relate. How long will you leave it up for? I'd like to listen to it when I get home.

blue-

it's hard to balance wanting the world to be what it's possible for it to be, against the reality of the droll day to day....

i get that.

that was the whole reason, for adding those last 4 lines..

johnny-

you know, i just finished re-doing this entire thing...

faders down, blew away the vocal tracks, and started over...

added a new vocal harmony to the other one already there, and re-mixed it from scratch.

i'm gonna finish that up this weekend, and i'll post it on monday......

thanks for the interest....

Cool, I'll look out for it! You made me think about trying to add some harmonies on some of my tracks. That should be interesting.