During the pandemic I started playing music every day at lunch, mainly covers (I think I ended up with like 500 songs). It became exercise and therapy. Over time I started writing my own stuff and now I am starting to sift through the pile of songs and this is the first one released.
It’s about when someone dies and you have to piece together who they were by what was left behind.
The wild sounded baritone guitar you hear is from the amazing Chris Lenker which gives it the atmospheric feel.
Matisse once said “Creativity takes courage”…so here we go.
Tuning: Standard, capo 2
Lyrics:
There were memories, stowed away
Like a final kiss, buried in a drawer
There are treasures, sitting til some day
Was it something you’d choose to remember that way?
The whispers they still linger on
For the record, sounds just like you
But I’m so far gone from then
Is this all, we are reduced to?
The documents of you, scattered all around
Hiding artifacts, for me to find
You didn’t purge, like me instead
You held on keepsakes
Hazen James 