Don't Forget About A Billion Stars(Pre-Production)
Whenever you feel your dreams won't come true, look up at the night sky and "Don't Forget About A Billion Stars." There's always a solution.
Performer/Songwriter
Hey everybody! I'm Jerry Flattum, Performer/Songwriter.
The recordings you are listening to are in Pre-Production, a fancier way of saying "demo." I'm currently working on getting up the financing to re-record and master several recordings in preparation for commercial release.
Nothing drives me nuts more than knowing how these tunes will sound with new arrangements and a top notch mix/master. There's alot of color missing from the current recordings, but most of all guitar and backup vocals. Live drums and new keyboard samples will really bring the arrangement to life too.
Two of the songs feature "hired guns" (session players). Tim Thompson did the guitar and mix on "My Little Girl," a Country/Rock ballad. Thompson is a finger style champion and when he let's loose on uptempo rockers he rivals the best pickers I've ever heard.
Stephen Sea knocked out his own arrangement of "Best Place Around" and topped it off with some amazing guitar work.
Virtual instruments and sampling technology will be heavily used in the new recordings.
Once the recordings are finished, with sufficient financing and backing, I'm planning a global tour with a stage show that includes dancers, acting, stage design, lighting and costuming.
Story behind the song
Any songwriter will tell you songs are inspired in the strangest of ways. The rhythm for "Don't Forget About A Billion Stars" came from a toothpaste commercial that for unknown reasons used Cajun music.
This is one of my most unique songs in both structure and lyric. Every night I have the habit of going out and looking at the stars, mostly frustrated because I never learned a thing about astronomy. But, what I lack in science I make up for in poetry and what the night sky represents to me is hope.
The song is my message that whenever you feel there is no solution, or your trapped and can't seem to move, the magic of the Universe will somehow come through.
The recording is in pre-production, being re-arranged and mastered in preparation for commercial release.
Lyrics
DON'T FORGET ABOUT A BILLION STARS
Underneath a swaying willow tree,
down by the river,
the moon is shining bright.
Like a child's dreams of mystic lands,
here by the river,
there's magic in the night.
I'll whisper in your ear, the mystery;
the wind in the leaves of the trees,
tells a story only lovers know,
through the danger, a way the night will show.
DON'T FORGET ABOUT A BILLION STARS, my love,
shining all for you.
Don't be afraid to close your eyes, my love,
and see your dreams come true.
Sparkling water, fish are dancing free,
here by the river,
a land of make believe.
Laughing frogs and crickets rumba, yeah,
here by the river,
the river of eternity.
You'll remember, when we kiss in moonlight-
Reveal what we feel is so right.
Here we wonder, where love is born,
another chapter, we read from pages torn.
DON'T FORGET ABOUT A BILLION STARS, my love,
shining all for you.
Don't be afraid to close your eyes, my love,
and see your dreams come true.
Enchanted magical kingdom,
protected by the eye, of the owl.
The rustling of the deer running,
somewhere you hear a lonely howl.
A spirit lost in the darkness,
still searching for the secret of the universe.
From the sky, a shooting star,
catching the spirit's eye, so far away,
and easy to forget the heavens;
so easy to forget the heavens...
is the lovers curse.
DON'T FORGET ABOUT A BILLION STARS, my love,
shining all for you.
Don't be afraid to close your eyes, my love,
and see your dreams come true.
DON'T FORGET ABOUT A BILLION STARS, my love,
shining all for you.
Don't be afraid to close your eyes, my love,
and see your dreams come true.
INSTRUMENTAL TAG w/ Adlibs
Copr. 2010 Jerry Flattum
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