Continue Playing live! And Whispered Words, Short Edit

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OK! A short edit of the song I wrote on my birthday and proceeded to croak out for you:
https://www.reverbnation.com/integr8dsoul/song/29131542-whispered-words-short-edit

AND: from the holidays, our live performance of "Continue Playing"! I've been very excited about this song...it never fails to pick up my spirits. The live version's pretty clean and direct.
https://www.reverbnation.com/integr8dsoul/song/29131536-continue-playing-live-for-ellie

I made the short edit of "Words" to fit a birthday CD I burned. Is it better with less words and one less chorus? I don't know...different though! I kept the stronger parts, vocally, but there is something about that full set of words, too, as you can see on my previous January post.

Just recovering from a bad cold...still not quite up to singing strength. Demoing a song written for Delores O'Rioridan, r.i.p., the day she died. If you're a Cranberries fan, you might not want to miss it...but if it's covered by the singers to whom I offered it, I think you'll be properly amazed! We'll see.

Whispered Words (full version)

1.Are you lonely as Eleanor Rigby?
Empty your mind of the mournful
like a refugee fleeing from violence
breaking the inside world when we’re born full
of Love oh but we’re helpless
Nurtured with kindness Nurtured with kindness
like the natural state of our spirits
we often just need someone to remind us
chorus
Next to silence change like the moon
Take care now of all that you’ve heard
Sometimes friends are just people to think of
heart to imagine whispered words

2. When you can’t word the suicide note
in a way that won’t leave anyone for whom
you care feeling hopeless
just put it off live another day
hope will find you other ways

Just know I think of you
probably more than you realize
anti-anything isn’t as strong
as the love that illuminates real lies

chorus
Next to silence change like the moon
Take care now of all that you’ve heard
Sometimes friends are just people to think of
heart to imagine whispered words



Be Chill, Cease ill 1/25/18

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Atlanta, 1996

Neil Young was probably our favorite artist when we saw him at Lakewood in '96. Jewel was his first opening act, just after her very first hit I believe. Ben Folds Five came on next, with an energetic show borrowing some of Elton John's favorite stage tricks in his pre-costume days, like han stands.
We were happy to see this playlist again. I did recall CrazyHorse playing several off Broken Arrow, which we'd listened to a lot, in our first semester in Tuscaloosa. The climax featured actual storm clouds gathering to deliver a thunderous accompaniment to"Like A Hurricane"! Strings cracked to pieces on Big Black as Neil played a frenzied finale. Then the clouds rolled away in the late summer night.
We got as close to the stage as my tiny wife could tolerate by the encores. We were within a few rows by the time they " Roll(Ed) Another Number"- then cheers alone rang in our ears.
My life pursuing the arts hasn't afforded much ticket money, but we made those days count. We saw Dylan and the Who within the next year.
This was probably our all-time favorite concert experience. Can you even imagine a time with cameras forbidden, much less, no iPhones? Memories with everyone were harder to document then. But those were times of many of the best memories we'd ever make.
- Be Chill, Cease ill

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