3 posts tagged “songs”
Soundclick have just offered me this - after all this time of uploading and pasting every song onto every site (I have the full set). Anyway, just click play and away you go... 55 of 'em I think. Something like that, anyway. Thanks again - Al
Is life a series of bubbles? Or one big bubble with lots of smaller ones bouncing around inside? Each phase of your life is perhaps enclosed in the taut transparent skin in which it grew. All the materials for that phase that were there from the start are now used up; it's expanded as far as it can, and it's time to step outside and set it free.
I wrote songs for a while. I felt they had a purpose. Each one had a life of its own: a creative energy that forced it into being; emotion to give the inflation drive and direction; and an experience it was born to define. As it neared completion, the energy waned, raw materials expired, the bubble contracted a little as it sealed; then the story was told/the experience was exorcised/the emotion was expressed. Rainbows swirled on its surface as it floated before me exactly as I had imagined, yet beyond my expectations - it was complete.
Sitting here in my life's bubble, I see, herein, a floating 'songs bubble' full of little bubbles of its own. Each song is fragile, existing only as I made it; too delicate to touch, alter: too easy to spoil, destroy. No-one will cover them, few will play them. But for me who made them, there is a beauty hovering there which will always be a part of me and apart from me. I smile to hear the faint tinkling sounds within them as they float past, and, occasionally, I step through a membrane to relive a time and its soundtrack caught within.
I uploaded lots of my songs and sorted them out into 'collections' (a great Vox addition/feature - thanks folks) which are vague categories; perhaps making them (there are 55 songs of various types here I think) a little easier to trawl through if you are indeed 'a fisher of songs'.
Some songs appear in more than one category... well it's difficult to say sometimes, isn't it? I then posted the collections into individual blogs (see below, or my blog, depending on where you are reading this)... I don't know why, but there it is (as Harry Worth used to say, so eccentrically and enigmatically).
I'm not here often these days, but I do call in and answer mail, reply to comments etc. I even write one occasionally, if the mood takes me.
Is it just me? ... I find this place to be a little like a twisted episode of 'Cheers'... everyone knows your name, but nobody actually, really, gives a toss ;-) (Sorry to the select group who obviously do).
The picture, a butter-creamed sponge-cake I made with my son, Edward, is only loosely connected to the text, but I simply couldn't resist adding it; if only my songs were as tasty and as readily consumed - I'd soon be marrying Heather Mills (never trust a woman who wants to keep her own name; and even the ones who don't are generally dodgy) -ExCartney... on second thoughts... a boot up the arse is bad enough from a real foot, never mind... er, never mind...
Take care all, and happy fishing
Cheers!
Al
