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Write Me Down
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12 String acoustic guitar and vocal
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Frank Hudson composes and plays guitar-based music in several genres. Originally an acoustic music player he branced out into various rock genres, including playing with "The LYL Band" and other musicians. In the late 1990s he began producing, composing, playing and recording instrumental rock.
Song Info
Genre
Rock • Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #1,750
Peak in subgenre #67
Author
Frank Hudson
Rights
2006
Uploaded
February 04, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.3 MB • 128 kbps • 5:49
Story behind the song
Written in late November 2006 as a charge to artists to pay attention to the internal call to do their work. I knew I was also alluding to the spiritual tradition of asking to be written down in the book of life as I was writing it. A little over a month later my friend John Brower (see his Soundclick site for more) died unexpectedly, and I now hear and sing the song feeling that deeply.
Lyrics
Write Me Down The world is hiding me. Write me down. The wind is at my back, pushing me nowhere. The night always continues until it doesn’t. Write me down. The 6:30 A.M. bus glows inside, turns from 7th to Cedar, Still brethren inside being carried off to work With hope and hopelessness and not knowing which. Write me down. Even birds know a song sweeter than music. Every infant in their mother’s arms knows this. We spoke this before we first spoke. Write me down. We care for the sick and comfort them. Though we hold each other, hearts thrumming against our chests, All our lovers and friends will take their leave. Write me down. There is something that soothes every sore place. There is a consolation for every sadness. Every emptiness draws this to fill it. Write me down. There is a joy, beyond even the joy of a child’s smile. There is worth in even what we discard. There is an accident at a mystery, let us laugh, yet Write me down. I did not come from you, I came through you. You must labor for me, and Write me down. Because we did not come from ourselves, Because we live only from others’ carefulness, Because of this, Write me down.
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