Well, it took a while but here it is, a new album. It’s called Flying Home. There are 13 songs, the oldest, A Sailor Lost At Sea, being from 1995 and the newest, Embrace Me From Afar, composed in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. The rest are from the teen years in between. A few of the songs are already on this website as singles.
Although the lyrics and melodies for all of the songs are accompanied on acoustic fingerstyle guitar, it feels like this album is more about the words than the last one. And unlike the last album, Way Back When, where I had something I wanted to tell you about each song, I don’t really have anything more to say about these new ones other than what I already have for the few songs already posted. All the songs tell their own story. I’ve included the lyrics for one of them as part of this post though. It’s called Spark To Flame. It’s another way for you to check out something from the album, of course, but I chose it because it’s about songwriting and being a musician and a writer. For me, it covers it all. It’s basically about why I do what I do and I think of all the pieces I’ve written, it’s probably my favourite.
As for the download, it contains all of the songs in MP3 format, a pdf file of all the lyrics, and a printable CD cover. And as usual, it’s free. In the pdf, along with the lyrics, I’ve included this post and the posts for some of the songs that are already on the site, the ones that say something more than just, “Hey, here’s a new song.”
If you find something you like in what I do, I’d appreciate it if you spread the word. I write and compose to communicate things not only to myself but to others as well. That’s why, almost 15 years ago on this site’s first post, one that was about my poetry book, The Hard Won Hush, I quoted the painter Edgar Degas, “Art is not so much a matter of what you see but of what you can get others to see.” I still feel the same way about that as I did back then. I always will. So, once again, may you see something in these creations that helps you in your search for the hard won hush and may you find a little Magic in them to strengthen your wings for the flight toward home.
Spark To Flame
I have walked this road for a lifetime,
Let love and childlike wonder light the way,
Known that all was well, waiting in the background,
But fought against what’s wrong within the play.
Where are you tonight, beyond my heart,
When all that I have loved begins to wane?
Where are you tonight, beyond my heart?
Give me peace and I’ll fan spark to flame.
I have drawn the words out of the starlight,
Cast the spell of notes with my hands.
Every poem and tale tried to give back the Magic
To the dreams of every woman, child, and man.
Where are you tonight, beyond my heart,
When all that I have loved begins to wane?
Where are you tonight, beyond my heart?
Give me peace and I’ll fan spark to flame.
Somewhere up ahead, a candle in a window
Pushes back the darkness outside.
Somewhere on a shore, we all stand waiting
For truth to finally come in with the tide.
Where are you tonight, beyond my heart,
When all that I have loved begins to wane?
Though I’m lost tonight, as long as I’m alive,
Give me sparks and I’ll fan them to flame.
Give me sparks and I’ll fan them to flame.
Download
To download, left click on this link - Flying Home album (92 mb).
This free download includes a Music folder of mp3 files, a pdf of the lyrics and related posts, including this post, and a printable CD jewel case album cover.
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