From the recording Could Have Been Beautiful
Lyrics
syncopated jazz harmonies
syncopated jazz harmonies
overlay a Delta Blues riff
overlay a Delta Blues riff
I sing for you I sing for you
..this song..for you
for you.. for you ..
I’d give..
give you everything ..
Wait Wait ..honey I love it
stop for a second
I don’t want everything
just the heart..
cut everything else out
maybe
keep a little sex appeal
so started my interview
with a music producer
I heard the song ..
you have somethin
thats why you're here
gotta give it to me
in 3 minutes
thinkin to myself
this guy would have
cut ... Hotel California
down to
Hotel C..
Cut American Pie ..to
Pie
Papa Was A Rolling Stone becomes
Papa Gets Stoned
he's still talkin ..a real song doctor
so you can cut
10 seconds from the intro
another 10 seconds from the outro
..two paragraphs from the middle
that will get it down to 4 minutes
tighten up the flowery language
and we can find another 30-40 seconds
people don’t talk like that
I heard the song ..
you have somethin
thats why you're here
what I heard was
..cut off your feet
then you're other hand
make an incision
down the middle of your stomach
and take out your heart
must have looked stunned
or at least shell shocked
and he knew it .. said to me ..
honey you have somethin
we have to find it
if you want me to sell it
I kept imagining my favorite songs ..chopped up by this guy
Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald ..
29 guys in a boat ..on a stormy night
..they didnt make it
ooooohhhh ooooohhh ooooohhhh
thanked him for his time
went home and cried..
Light My Fire .. a song about a guy with an unlit cigarette..
You Cant Always Get What You Want .. could have been ..Get What You Want .. a self help song
Stairway To Heaven .. the construction of a tricky stairway ..
dont know what to do ..still crying
was thinking we could cut all the verbs and prepositions ..or go the other way.. cut the nouns ..and every other preposition..
Riders On The The Storm ... keep the storm or the riders.. and the music ..cut out all the organ .. 10 seconds tops for that.. maybe add a banjo.. and ...and the tambourine is hot ..find a place for more tambourine .. do you play harmonica .. would you be willing to learn...