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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #679
Peak in subgenre #47
Author
Ed Fuchs
Rights
Ed Fuchs 2011
Uploaded
August 07, 2012
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.7 MB • 160 kbps • 5:00
Story behind the song
As I look back over my life I am amazed at how far God has taken me and everything that He has brought me through. Today I am an independent Christian artist creating music for the One who has created me. My first CD “Set Us Ablaze” was released December 20, 2011 and I am very excited for what 2012 holds, and Who holds it.
On February 19th I will be sober for 6 years having successfully completed the Christian life school Teen Challenge as well as Teen Challenge Ministry Institute, a Bible college equipping graduates for hands-on ministry. And what’s the best part? My mother, Rose, has also successfully completed these endeavors and also approaches her 6-year sobriety mark. Today we both have each other, our God, sobriety and more than that, purpose.
Through the years that seem to have flown by, there were times when emotion weighed heavily on our hearts. Questioning our mutual sobriety and wondering if it would last. Past hurts returning to render us undone. All along the journey there was threatening silence that found us, alone, in our insecurities… Could we forgive? Could we forgive each other? Could we forgive ourselves?
These daunting questions begged for reckoning but with me in the Men’s home in Riverside, and Rose in the women’s home in Ventura, strict schedules and limited phone time, the pressing circumstances didn’t afford us the opportunity to share and heal.
In the brief moments we shared on those short long-distance calls when time was never enough, when I missed the comfort of family and could only speak with Mom on the phone, I would tell her that all she had to do was look up to the stars on “Miracle Mountain” in Ventura, and know I wasn’t that far away looking at the same stars. Little did I know that years later I would write this song, and though it has the God-creation meaning, the obvious romantic interpretation, and several others, I wanted to share parts of the song-writing process with you, the ones called life, loss, and Love.
Lyrics
Stars
Music & Lyrics by Ed Fuchs
C G
Anytime you see the stars
Em F
You know that I’m not very far…
(F) C G
Thinking of you this fine evening
Em F
Seeing you through the leaving of imprints
C G
Impressed upon my mind’s eye
Em F
Beholding the same stars caressed on our sight
C G
Twinkling in the twilight of a most
Em
Precious black night
F (keyboard fill)
Of the soul.
C G
Anytime you see the stars
Em F
You know that I’m not very far…
(Last chorus walk up F G A B)
LOW BREAK C B E F
(F) C G
Thinking of you this fine evening
Em F
Seeing you through the leaving of imprints
C G
Impressed upon my mind’s eye
Em F
Beholding the same stars caressed on our sight
C G/D
Twinkling in the twilight of a most
Em
Precious black (bleak) night
F (F G A B)
Of the soul.
C G
Anytime you see the stars
Em F
You know that I’m not very far…
(Last chorus walk up F G A B)
Solo
C G E F
C G Em F (continued)
C G
Anytime you see the stars…
(Every time I see the stars…)
Em F
You know that I’m not very far…
(I know that you’re not very far…)
Intro
Chorus x 2
(1 guitar on power chords
1 guitar on octaves)
Verse x 3 (pattern w/ mutes)
Chorus x 2 (walk up)
LOW BREAK 1 progression
Verse x 3 (pattern w/mutes)
Chorus x 2
Solo over 2 progressions
Layered Chorus x2 (quarter notes)
Layered Chorus x2 (eighth notes)
Hold C
Outro
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I played power chords on one electric and octaves on the other. The acoustic in this song does the full chords when it is present. You can do either or depending on the feel you are trying to achieve. I also liken the feel of this song to a drunken garage band so accent the quarter note simple strum and listen for the slow slides down the neck to achieve the "drunken" feel or legato in the choruses. Listen for the other pattern in the verses. This song can also be transposed with a Capo for your set or singing needs.
Questions, suggestions, comments send an email to EdFuchsMusic@gmail.com
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