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Doreen
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This is a song about my younger sister, Doreen, who passed away in December 2008.
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I am a solo singer/songwriter. My music is mostly soft although my songs could easily be performed in mostly any style.
For me, it's all about the song. That mysteriously magical thing that happens when a lyric is married to a melody. The writing process is invigorating and exciting while simultaneously being exasperating and difficult. It is that moment when music is being composed and a lyric is being written when I am truly the "artist at his easel." The creative process continues when the song is brought into the studio to be recorded because, as in writing, the production and arrangement processes also have their own sets of challenges. Those challenges are always dictated by the song itself and the task at hand at that moment is to be true to the song and carefully craft a recording that reflects what the song is about. Part three, for me, is to then take that song and perform it. It is the purest form of displaying this work of art called a song and is the only place where the magic of the creation is reflected back to me from a room full of interested listeners. And at that moment it is only as magical as the audience makes me believe it is. My CDs are all available on CDBaby.com.
Song Info
Genre
Pop Indie Pop
Charts
Peak #246
Peak in subgenre #36
Author
Words and Music by Larry Whitler
Rights
2009 Quill And Keyboard Productions
Uploaded
March 22, 2009
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MP3 10.6 MB 320 kbps 4:38
Lyrics
I saw a photograph of you today I had never seen before You were beautiful and I wondered Why I never thought of you As beautiful before--- Well I guess that's not unusual For I saw through a brother's eyes And beauty doesn't matter anyway When you love someone on the inside--- Every memory's as beautiful as you The way you'd laugh The way you'd do the things you do Being young and spilling all our hopes and dreams You would be a dancer And I would write the score set to strings And I'd give anything Just to dream the dream again With you, Doreen--- I passed the field where you took lessons To learn to ride a horse It's a subdivision now But I can see you on that saddle Goin' 'round that dusty course--- And the middle school I drove you to Has been torn down to the ground But I still can hear the echoes of our laughter On the day I showed up early And signed you out--- Every memory's as beautiful as you The way you'd laugh The way you'd do the things you do Being young and spilling all our hopes and dreams You would be a dancer And I would write the score set to strings And I'd give anything Just to dream the dream again With you, Doreen--- I send my love to you I send my love to you Across the great mysterious divide I send my love to you--- I saw a photograph of you today I had never seen before You were beautiful and I wondered Why I never thought of you As beautiful before--- Well I guess that's not unusual For I saw through a brother's eyes And beauty doesn't matter anyway When you love someone on the inside--- Every memory's as beautiful as you The way you'd laugh The way you'd do the things you do Being young and spilling all our hopes and dreams You would be a dancer And I would write the score set to strings And I'd give anything Just to dream the dream With you, Doreen---
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