Title Song for my new Album.
christian
thoughtful
meaningful
reflective
Story behind the song
Door A 19 refers to the fact that this album is my 19th undertaken in the past 10 years. An interesting trend developed, one that started with the very first album which I entitled *Coming Soon to a Sky Near You*. The actual album title came to me before the title song. This has happened with every album since. A title name would come to me and then the song, but usually months later.
After I finished the 18th album called *Something LIKEcrazy* I was feeling tired and a bit discouraged, for reasons that had to do with both life in general and with my music, for my music seemed irrelevant and pointless to me. I felt vacant of inspiration and entitled the album A19. I keep all my albums in MP3 format on my computer (the masters are WAV, of course, and are stored on CD's or DVD's). In order to keep the albums listed in chronological order I put a prefix before each album A1, A2 and so on. You begin to get the picture, I imagine.
I find that each time I create something new, it's like walking through a door into a different adventure, so to speak. After recording the first 4 songs for the new album I was feeling much more positive. I went for a walk through one of the local meadows and felt this surge of magical entry, like I was passing through a portal. The song that came to me at that time I've actually not finished recording yet, but the experience made me think of this album as a door - the 19th - through which I'd passed. Last week, walking down MY road (my inspiration road, where I got visions for my first novel which I wrote about 12 years ago) I got the melody for the track you reviewed along with the words:
"In the evening,
Seeing you and I,
Etched against,
An autumn sky,
Walking, talking,
As we did in years gone by..."
The rest came once I started recording.
Lyrics
In the evening seeing - you and I,
Etched against an - autumn sky,
Walking and talking,
Like we did in years gone by.
And here I will make - no pretense,
That I see you in - present tense.
For feeling and healing,
Are all from innocence.
But I know what I mean,
When I say I've been reaching Door 19
Yeah, A-19
Yeah, I know what I mean,
When I say I've been reaching Door 19
A door that lies between.
I've no time - to equivocate,
I'm staring at the - latter gates.
Shaking, breaking,
Will be our real estate.
So tell me are - you listening,
Now or never - Christening,
Speaking, beseeching,
The morning's glistening.