(Jazz – Blues – Country – some anger/strength which builds to the end. Mayer or Clapton or Marvin Gaye)
(Start fairly soft and pointed)
(Could be spoken over instruments the first time through)
(R) I’ve been gone.
There are just some things a man must do alone.
So if they ask you where I’ve been just look at them and grin
And tell them – He’s been talking to the wind.
(1)I’ve been talking to the wind
Telling her the paces that I’ve been
And though she don’t have much to say
I think I like it best that way
And I can feel her tender touch upon my skin
(R) I’ve been gone.
There are just some things a man must do alone.
So if they ask you where I’ve been just look at them and grin
And tell them – He’s been talking to the wind.
(2)I’ve been singing to the breeze
Songs that have put me on my knees
And while she has yet to sing along
I know she understands my songs
And she fills me when it seems too hard to breathe
(Skip chorus – build to end)
(3)I’ve been raging at the storm
Standing at the place where hearts are torn
I look unblinking in her eyes
And I can feel the anger rise
I remember strength. And in the fire I am reborn.
(Finish big and hard with chorus and guitar/drum back to soft finish)
Well true labor probably hadn’t begun then, likely. Maybe they were birthed from Braxton Hicks contractions. You were just getting ready to go through the worst part.
Eight years gestation is about enough 🙂
I’m sorry life hurts so much right now. This, too, will pass — eventually.
Yes it will. Its actually so much better cause the endless loops are broken
There’s something different about these three. Were you more conscious that they were going to be set to music, or was it a deeper conviction I’m hearing? Perhaps it’s that you’ve pushed yourself a ways up that birth canal and the dilation has begun?
Maybe:) they are all older. They were intended to be sung. They do all have some kind resolution or statement of faith rather than the ususal ambiguity