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I Found Peace In N.Y. City (In-Progress)
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Ambulances screamin' through the traffic, stabwounds and bulletholes from fight after fight. And yet, in the city where some think the devil lives, "I Found Peace In New York City."
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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.
Song Info
Charts
#4,678 today Peak #66
#279 in subgenre Peak #9
Author
Jerry Flattum
Rights
2010
Uploaded
September 19, 2011
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.6 MB 128 kbps 5:03
Story behind the song
"I Found Peace In New York City" is still In-Progress. The song was born before 9/11 and its meaning is even more significant after that horrific day. New York has a bad reputation, and in all honesty, it deserves it. Crime and poverty is rampant. Entire underground cities for the homeless are found throughout the subway system. The city has endured everything from garbage strikes and blackouts to frozen in fear because of killers like "Son of Sam." For some reason people fail to balance the good with the bad and NY is very much a city of love, peace and happiness.
Lyrics
I FOUND PEACE IN NEW YORK CITY Ouzi's on every corner, shotgun at your door. People afraid of children, and the rich afraid of the poor. Black against white, nothin's changed for years. news every nite - another mother's tears. Crazies on every subway, shoot you for loose change. Girls off the bus from the midwest, now their minds have been rearranged. Cops and the mob, shakin' hands on the sly. Everyone gets robbed, an endless evil eye. They say it's strong enough to tear a good man down, cruel enough, to cut a virgin's skin. Cold enough, to freeze a lovin' mother's heart, It's a city of hell we're livin' in. Spoken: Sirens blarin' every minute, fires burnin' every night. Ambulances screamin' through the traffic, stabwounds and bulletholes from fight after fight. Fly, flyin' high (4 x's), she flies above the heat of the street, A fearless angel, no one believes. I can see her in a baby's smile, I can hear her sing from high above. I can feel her touch in a flower feel the power, the power of love. // fly, flyin' high above the heat of the street she spreads her wings a fearless angel she soars thru the city like a whisper the laugh of a newborn baby in the bronx the smile of a jew in brooklyn two lovers in a rowboat in central park at dusk/sunset a secretary saves a meeting finding lost documents a dancer wins an audition no one believes she can touch down on a flower in a window growing on a fire escape she can soar thru the traffic like an iron butterfly can't use iron butterfly // i found peace on this island town // I FOUND PEACE IN NEW YORK CITY (Repeat w/ Adlibs) Copyright 2008 by Jerry Flattum
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