wayne cook
@Wayne-Cook
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Duncanville, TX USA
Joined March3 2004
Songwriting is more like mental ramming of your head to a wall. Walls don’t have to be plaster and board. They can be and are most often the figurative of the mind, the heart, the soul. Walls are the metaphor for echoing the past, the happy or sad voices of our history.
Jimmy Webb once penned a song with this title, relating the stories of the people who had passed through a house, the mother with her first born, the alcoholic with his bottle, the couple making love, the children in their laughter, the elderly living out their declining years. That song is like the biography of the brick and morter that begin, close in, and eventually protect or imprison the people within the plaster echoes…..
Most people think that songwriting is a 10 minute process, whereby you pen 32 lines of poetry, paper clip a title, and play a few chords. Voila! Music, A hit!.
My god, the pain that I’ve been through to write some of my lyrics! Most are done in the still of the night, and with tortured words, knifing through my soul, lines applied to paper or computer, wracked out of my burning thoughts, the things that you hear and read.
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Hayley Oliver
Dec 19, 2008
Happy holidays Wayne! :)
Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and new year, may 2009 bring you much happiness and success for your great music.
Peace and love
Hayley :)
keyboardlady
Dec 12, 2008
Hi Wayne, Hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Check out my "Eternal Light" Christmas message when you have time.
Blessings, Lynn
GuitarGirl Lynn
Aug 03, 2008
BIG congrats for winning the American Songwriter contest, Wayne!
That's so AWESOME!!! Yay for you... :-)
Hugs,
xo Lynn
DjHLimtz
Jun 26, 2008
Hi Wayne,
being pretty busy last times, i just stop by to say hello to my old friends and wish good time and weather ;)
I could come back in a few weeks to check your last uploads, later but faithfully.
Have a fine week-end.
kiwiroadrunner
Jun 04, 2008
Hi Wayne ..Thanks for the welcome but if it wasn't for you being here I would not be here..
I like the idea of us writing a travelling song together .. I have a ton of one liners I think we can play with ...
Have a great evening..Shirley
Lilo Arboleda
Mar 22, 2008
Hello Wayne: I owe you a huge apology. I have been a stranger with so many people even with my own family lately. Just trying to juggle all the areas of life can be overwhelming sometimes. Not a complaint...just the truth. But life is good. I need to write you a good e-mail and I will. On the song, I have not worked on the melody. I have your lyrics hanging on my wall, daily reminder that I need to work on it. But when is the question. It used to be a matter of sitting down with my guitar and I'd have the melody in minutes. Now, it is a matter of changing my whole frame of mind....not so easily done. Don't worry about me. I am fine :)
I need to listen to your new material. I know I am up to a good treat! Have a Blessed Easter. LIFE DAY.
keyboardlady
Mar 20, 2008
Hi Wayne, Just stopping by to wish you a good Easter weekend.
Blessings, :o) Lynn
keyboardlady
Feb 02, 2008
Hi! Thanks for being a freind on here. Blessings, Lynn
BIG PETER WHITE
Dec 30, 2007
Hi Wayne
Thanks for being a friend, have a happy new year and all the best for 2008.
Big Peter White
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Thanx for the feedback on my last album and the love. My new album "Summer Rain" has been released!! Listen to a sample on my artist page. Download at www.shyritawashington.com If you enjoy my new song "Reborn", please vote for it. Thanx for your support in advance.