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  • A Song I Dug Up From the Archives, “I Know”

    Stephen Pickering “I Know”

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    As I was laying on the couch watching the Jet’s Colt’s game, I decided to dig through this old laptop to see what kind of “Easter Eggs” I would fine. Well to my surprise I found this song I recorded 5 years ago that I had thought I’d lost forever. I made it on an old Boss-900, one of the first DAWS that didn’t even have a hard drive, it used these expensive Iomega Zip Drives that were expensive and would only hold about a song each. I got hundreds of these old zip drives around here with pieces of song ideas on them.
     

     

    Anyway, I was happy I found this. I always liked the energy of the guitar. I remember at the time I was so influenced by Pete Townshend, and there’s where the relentless driving rhythm of the guitar came from. I played the bass and keyboards very rudimentarily, and then used the drum machine, which sounds cheap, but I always thought it was fun. I’m made I erased the original zip drive the song was on, so that I could listen to the individual instruments and see what I was playing, and maybe even drag the .wavs into Garageband and do something interesting.  The solo is sloppy and drags on way to long. That’s at least one thing I could do with it, if I had the original master, tighten that up. And there’s about a hundred too many “Whoa oh’s” at the end that drag out for about 2 minutes.

    But, I’m happy I found the .mp3. It’s not that great, but I remember that I had fun making it, and that’s what counts the most. :-))))))

  • A New Original Song “Get Through the Day”

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    Get Through the Day by spickeringlr

    Just another song I wrote the other day. Acousticy of course, mellow, or should i say “smooth.” Worked in Garageband to add some loops for flavor. I think it came out alright, although, the vocals were through the computer built in mic, so I’m not going to be a happy camper until I get an interface for my studio mic, but even then I’m not sure. It seems in Garagband if I use the “Auto Normalize” feature the track volume is too low, if I don’t, I get the loudness I want, but the track is too rough. Anyone got any solutions that will help me? Thanks.
     

     
    "Get Through the Day"
    Get through the day
    Make everything o.k.
    Don't walk away
    'Cause there's something I wanna say
    We're gonna be alright
    We'll make it though the night
    I think its the right time
    To just let go and fly
    Chorus:
    And angels are on the horizon
    Looking for someone new to drive 'um
    What can I say, when you walk away?
    I'm trying hard should I just look down and pray?
    Are you looking for someone to race?
    If so I'll drift away
    Hard in the night
    Looking forward to the light
    I want to say the right things
    I want to feel your warm embrace
    A chance again to feel the Sun
    All our habits have been done
    I want to look up to the sky
    Make everything be alright
     
     

  • A New Original Song “How to Say You”

    How To Say You by spickeringlr

    A little more “produced” than the last few, which have just been me and a guitar singing into a computer mic. It’s fun to screw around with garageband, and its also fun to mix it up sometimes, the way you do things, but this is still just a first draft. The vocals and guitar were only caught on one track which I want to split, and there’s things about the arrangement I want to change.

    How to say “You”
    How to say “Confused”
    How to say you
    How to stay confused
    When you walk on by
    When you wanna cry
    Break down and die
    Before another lie
    That’s when you scream
    That’s when you see
    THe bird and bee
    In harmony
    That’s when you walk
    That’s when you talk
    That’s when you’re shocked
    By a love that’s lost
    But sayin’ it don’t matter
    Just’s a waste of flap and chatter with me
    When all the World’s in spatter
    And the fields are hooked and laddered in greed
    That’s when you say
    I’m ok
    I’m always just a phone call away
    And the harder you don’t push back
    The more you wished you’d stayed away
    How to say you
    How to say confused
    How to say you
    How to say you
    And I wonder why
    When I’m walking by
    That the sky don’t cry
    That the walls don’t hide
    It would seem to me
    That its so easy
    Being who you wanna be
    Seein’ who you wanna see
    Thank God’s alive
    Deep down inside
    He’s our ride
    To the other side
  • I made a New Song Tonight called “My One Intention”

    Demo My One Intention by spickeringlr

    Posted via web from stephenpickering’s posterous

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    “My One Intention”

    I don’t want you to love me
    I don’t want you to hold me
    I only want things that can be true
    This faceless crowd annoys me
    It bugs and trys to destroy me
    I wonders aimlessly in the dark
    But since the inquisition
    Here’s my one intention
    To find out what the future
    Wants to bring

    Inside the heart of darkness
    I found a willing accomplice
    She said the jewels are in the sea
    We swam out to the ocean
    We bounced and loved the motion
    We sang the songs that set us free
    And when its time to leave her
    I’ll sleep alone and grieve the
    Magic in her eyes that free my soul
    Driving down to Bill’s apartment
    The place of our embarkment
    An adventure that requires that we let
  • Another Night, Another Song Idea, “After the Love is Gone”

    After The Love is Gone by spickeringlr

    They won’t leave me alone!!! I couldn’t even finish Saturday Night Live tonight with Charles Barkley for fear of forgetting it. And then I have this new thing, whenever I start a few lyrics I’m obsessed to finish the whole song. It’s a good habit, but annoying.

    Here’s the first draft of lyrics:

    After the love is gone
    After the love is gone away
    I need some place to hide
    A secret guide to another place
    With all that’s said and done
    I still remember the fun we had
    Tears and laughter too
    All was possible with you
    You taught me about myself
    That there is something else to find
    You helped me believe in me
    Encouragement to realize my dream
    Bridge:
    And though it feels so empty without you
    You gave me the strength to know what to do
    All the love you gave to me
    Allowed me to set my heart free
    After the love is gone
    After the love is gone away
    There’s a sweet sadness
    But priceless gift I’ve found a way
    Won’t forget your eyes
    They carried the bluest skies of faith
    Yeah sometimes I’m blue
    But I carry you in my heart always
    So after the loving’s gone
    I always will be strong though its through
    The fire’s still burning bright
    All through the winter’s night ’cause of you.
  • New Song Idea, Working Title “I Feel You”

    Man, it seems like every night, song ideas pop into my head that I feel the need to get out. It feels good to get them out, like if I didn’t they would fester and wreak havic down in my subconscious, cutting off my future creative energy. So really as much as a result, it’s about a process. That’s what Blake tried to get across. The creative process. “Don’t fall in love with your own creation.” And its really freeing not to. It allows you to have fun with whatever your working on.

    First Draft Lyrics,

    I Think I Feel You
    I hear you’re looking so fine on the cinnamon line
    I hear you’re peeling you’re heart away
    I want you so much but I’m feeling so rough
    From another wounded holiday
    When you come over tonight, ‘wanna hold you tight
    Don’t want you to feel you gotta walk away
    Looking through town feeling down like a clown
    But it was just another sad display
    {And once I did it wrong
    I knew the first verse of the song
    And once I had it all
    I gave it to a bum for whiskey and malt
    I know that you do, and I know that it’s true
    You’ve always had a funky retro soul
    I found out about him through the grapevine of friends
    And now I have no other place to go
    I want to see you again, you’re such an endearing young gem
    You give me hope not to dwell upon things
    If it works out just right, I’ll be leaving tonight
    And won’t worry what the future brings