A soft feel good Latin-Rock song with the theme of being really together with your partner.
Light acoustic rock folk
I play guitar and sing against backings that I have created using various software tools. I am therefore a home recorder primarily concerned with minting decent recordings of my own songs rather than a performer.
Story behind the song
This song started out as an idea to produce a Santana like latin-rock song. You know the sort that has those lovely guitar solo’s interwoven around a killer bongo driven rhythm. The lyrics therefore are quite sparse and open out space for the guitar to fill.
Of course I discovered during this that I ain’t Santana which threw a kink in those well laid plans, so instead it sort of morph’ed during the creative phase to something I could handle. It retains only the Latin feel having become something else entirely, a bastard child of the Santana genre.
I have also started a new trend in song styles with this song, I play a lot of “blues” and despite loving that I sometimes get a bit fed up with their whinging self pitying plot lines and the anxt driven burblings of modern blues. So I had the idea to start a sort of “smug married” theme and logically it is crying out to be called “The Pinks”.
This is about all the people who don’t “wake up this moanin’ with “their suitcase in their hand” and who aren’t bound at any moment to “catch the freight train” or “ride the blinds”. Instead they will take their sandwiches to work and type at their computers all day whilst their wives dutifully stay at home and keep their well schooled brood in order.
It is about people who know that their “sweet home” isn’t in “Chicago”, which itself isn’t in “Cali for knee I aye” but is a 15 minute pop down the road where, with any luck, food will get served pretty soon after they fetch up tired at the end of the day.
This song therefore explores being “together” with your partner. I am sure the Pinks will catch on as a new music phenomena just as soon as it finds its own “Blind Reverend Sonny Boy Lemon Brownie” spokesperson.
Until then, remember you heard it here first…!
Lyrics
Together, ……I think we are together
We face the fear same as the fun
Side by side we are as one
The weather, ------I think we’re like the weather
Just as the rain can bring a storm
Our loving sun will keep us warm
Whenever,…. I sometimes think whenever
We end up in a fight
We care too much who’s wrong or right
Together,….. I think we stand together
It’s really not that clever
Our love should last forever
Endeavor, …..I think we must endeavor
Just take the world on as we find
Make life our pleasure not our grind
Forever, ……I think we’ll last forever
Just as the chain links entwine
We stand together for all time
Whatever, …I really think whatever
We do together makes us strong
Such a thing cannot be wrong
Together, …..I think we must endeavor
It’s really not that clever
Our love should last forever
