Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Thoughts on a solo album

So, I have all these songs... Some of them have been appropriated by Between Liberties, various side-projects, future Avienani-songs. However, I'm getting really ancy to put them together, or at least record them acoustically, so that I can have them down before I forget they exist. Like Legacy. Who even remembers that song? I never played it out, and probably couldn't play the guitar part unless I found a rough mix somewhere (which is unlikely, as the zoom was a recent aquisition).

Here's *all* my finished songs to date (and I've included Legacy, even though it's more-or-less forgotton, and Undertow, which will likely never get finished).

15 (originally arrainged in 2004)- words by Nicholas Ragheb, "All the myriad of things people trade in for their wings"
6 Shots (2008) - "How did you know it was a .22? What if one had pierced you?"
As a Friend (2006? possibly 07) "Your bones burned again and you, you asked him to"
Astronauts (2006) - "Somos Astronautas! Somos o que eles nao sao, mais eles sao to do o que temos" For Joana Ricou, and a tribute to people who are following their paths. Recorded by Doug Wilkin, and appearing on the Calliope 2007 songwriter circle CD.
Boomerang (2006?) - For Chad, "You find jewels on the avenue". Performed often by Between Liberties.
Charity (2005) - "Burning like a fire, your woman needs attending, and half your job is to keep this blaze from ending". Recorded by Brian Howe (Sikes!).
Empty House (2006) - "Take your memories and leave this hollow home". Performed often by Between Liberties, to appear on our first album.
Endless Rhyme (2005?) - "Leave it to the scientists, fundamentalists and terrorists."
Flooded Streets (2007) - "She knows what the stones have always spoken" 4Emilee
Heroine (2008) - Told simultaneously from the point of view of the lover of, and reason for demise, of a drug addict who has ruined his body. "Just take, just take me, just take me in again"
Incantations (2006) - "I trip on my own feet, but the stones stay asleep, because even they know monsters exist, and only you can save yourself when you're in this deep"
Just Like You (2008) - "Laws would be written to outlaw lawyers and their laws, so we could live instead of ruling".
Legacy - "He may have gone, but you stayed on, and continued to give me everything"
Long Day (2008) - "I'll not think of time, and what time is gone"
The Promise (2006) - "Laying on yellow lines, a puddle of laughter"
Repeat, Repeat- "Like a Santa Claus stuck to the lawn"
Sleeping Lady (2000?) - "The breath takes its cue, all emotions seem so new"
Sundays (2006) - "Let's climb to the kings mountain-view, level it to the ground"
Sunrise (2005) - "I belong on the road, where I've been, where I remain"
Terrestial Things (2006) - "In my mind the stars, they know you as true".
Tiny Balloon (2007) - "Say you love me, its all that you can do for you".
Undertow (2000-present) - "Now Go..."
Unlike You (2008) - "Upll upon some muscles / pluck a melody / forget the hollow body / a drum on which you beat..."
Upon a Mountain (2008) - "God was everywhere I looked, I could feel him underneath me, I heard him in my steps and I wasn't yet convinced that he existed"
Want It Enough (2006) - "If it's more than just stuff, if it won't become junk"
What I learned by Going Home (2008) - "I saw you through the light, saw your fire bright, saw you through the darkest night"
Write Often (2003?) - "She said: Be safe, enjoy the ride, have fun, and write often"

And, for the heck of it, I've decided to include a list of Between Liberties songs-to-date to which I can credit myself for at least parts of the lyrics.

Ancient Eyes ~ "It drew water from your Ancient Eyes to know that it would be fine..."
Afar "If you were the stars, I'd be your light"
Begging Peace ~ "You are so frusterating"
Boomerang ~ "Just like cloudy days, I know you're just the true shadow of the sunshine"
Botany ~ "Let's grow and grow and grow until the worms use us to build a home"
Child's Eyes "We remember what we outgrew by looking at you"
Done with the Waiting "My head said to me the hardest ways: Suicide or a hand-grenade"
Empty House ~ "You are the clouds I cannot own: for that, you have no value, and I have no hands to hold"
Evergreen ~ "If we sing in sorrow, we will never sing alone"
Gasoline ~ "If you were with me, I'd feel okay to speak the honest truth to clear our name"
In a Minute ~ "When we were one, no one was alone, the world was whole, no one was suffering"
Magnets ~ "The road becomes a humble friend when the fantasy ends"
Night on Fire ~ "Full of hunger"
Orion ~ "Caught dust in my eye, into the sky I cried "At last, at last..."
The Promise ~ "These are the nights you'll have to remember"
RPM ~ "You were already underneath me, pressing into my skin"
Steps Home ~ "Spending oxygen in an intelligent way, for to find some peace at the end of the day"

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