I spent a few days with a friend who was on her deathbed. One of the things I told her (she was barely coherent) was that I had a new guitar waiting on me when I returned home from seeing her. She is a songwriter friend of mine. When I returned home, knowing it was the last time I would see her, that was tough. But it got worse. I had a biz meeting at 10am next day. Long story short is that I found out that the man I was to meet... his wife died and the funeral was at 10am! So, I barely made the gravesite service.
My songwriter friend was only 50 and the other friend was 58! Unreal. I turned 57 during all of this.
While at his home after the funeral, I got a phone call that my friend whom I had visited... had died. That night, night before last, I awoke at 3am and wrote this song. Today, I recorded it with the right-out-of-the-box Silver Creek T-160 (mahogany). It needs the action lowered but sounds pretty good to me. I ordered a T-170 (rosewood) and will compare the two and choose one.
If anyone can give a comment about this song, it's appreciated. I need feedback before/if I send it to the families. Anything you like or anything that bugs you, let me know. Especially... the vocal step-up that I do on the word "fly," is that okay with you... good / bad?
I wrote this such that it can hopefully give some people some hope about what happens upon "lights out."
I have this arranged on the Audya, and WOW, it is KILLER, can't wait to record it. It becomes a very different song, I like it sparse as this is, and also like the full arrangement... organ sounds awesome on this.
http://www.ttmbandroom.com/index.php?t=audio_player&song_id=1168
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