I know I just posted a tune 2 weeks ago, and I don't want to overstay my welcome - but I was inspired to write another song very quickly after the last, and I got it on tape before I lost the motivation behind writing it!
This is proof that you can be inspired to write a song by just about ANYTHING
If you have Windows XP, you are familiar with the pictures available as your desktop background. One of the pics is a tiny tropical island, with a cluster of coconut palms on white sand. There is a sailboat entering the frame at the left.
One day I was looking at it, and a story quickly formed in my mind (it didn't hurt that I had been listening to a lot of Jimmy Buffett over the previous few days). I typed out some ideas, made them rhyme, then the next day sat down and recorded it.
This is the result - a little rough around the edges - but my wife says it's already her favourite song of mine. It's meant to evoke a very lazy feel, being in no hurry, taking your time.
Structurally, I purposely mixed things up a little. I threw in a few chord changes that are 'unpredictable', and I started the song on the chorus. But not by singing the chorus; by playing a slide guitar right out of the gate, then singing the chorus.
It is all JamStudio, with a slide guitar added, as well as an organ on the final chorus, both played by me and mixed in afterwards.
Hope you like it, and I hope it brings imagery to your mind......
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7657146THE BLUE HORIZON Copyright 2009 by Mike Pilling
[Solo intro…]
[CH]
The blue horizon
Is calling me
The sun is risin’
On a distant sea
A clear blue ocean
With sky above
Feel the motion
Feel the love
[V1]
Daydreaming all about sailing
Cool fresh wind on my face
Coconut palms on the white sand
Lose the rat race
Soon we'll be cutting a clean wake
Sails all full of the breeze
Real world just made a clean break
Alone on the seas
[CH]
[V2]
As we push for our destination
The copper sun disappears
The distant joy of calypso
Starts to fill our ears
A smiling man, he takes the lines
Walks us up to the town
Some rum, some lime, some coconut wine
Good times all around
[BRIDGE]
The moon, the waves, the streets don't have names
No-one demands a thing
At sunrise we'll head back out to sea
And see what tomorrow brings
[CH]
[Solo & fade]
