Memoirs in a Song...
Stories, Stones and Bones is a name given to me in a dream some 10+ years ago. I used the title for my first book of lyrics when I sent it to be copywritten... This blog is a compendium of my book of lyrics, from 1996 to present.
The name holds a sense of ancient wisdom, which I hope begins to seep thru my songs: What are the stories the earth tells, that are written on our ancestral bones? What is the deeper pool of knowledge that we can drink from as we birth ourselves into creative evolutionary beings? Where are our roots? What is the journey we have taken, personally and collectively?...
And so begins the story, woven in song, as fallen through the lyrics of my music...
More lyrics will be coming soon (I've written well over 100 songs!)... In the meantime, I hope you enjoy!
[Please note that you will want to read from bottom to top (in reverse). The "archive by date" list on the lefthand side will help your journey - which begins in March of 1996, when the first song flew out of my lips... You can also search by THEMES: the songs which I like a lot or are in current performance rotation are in the theme of *favorites*]
My first "odd-rhythm" song! Little did I know when I wrote it... Though it all fits over a 3, it would be more apt to say it's a 3-3-5-7-3-3-3 ~ all told that would be a 27 rhythm!
I wrote this while traipsing thru the high mountain forests with my papa, the psychedelic shaman. Laying on a rock in the middle of the river, with the water wrapping its way around - watching the clouds overhead, the circle of water in this web of life...
1 2 3
May the Cir... cle
May the Cir... cle
May the Cir... cle...
... ... Be...
... ... ee...
ee.. ... ...
Un... bro... ke
Un... bro... ke
Un... bro... ke
...
© June 1997, Glacier Gorge, Rocky Mtn. National Park, CO
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