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so much to do - difficult to move

Finding it difficult to blog this week - my website has to be moved to a new host - yesterday - and it is a more complicated process than it should be - images and pages case sensitive where they weren’t and htm/html endings a necessity and more problems to discover. 

Even though it came from a different place I keep hearing this song:

I can’t stand still and I can’t move on
And it’s way too hot to be writing this song
I can’t stand still and I can’t move on
It’s a common theme, but maybe nothing’s wrong

Patience, Virtue, Assertiveness,
Listening, Asking, Believing in,
Connecting to what counts

We can’t stand still and we can’t move on
And it’s not like anything has even gone wrong
We can’t stand still and we can’t move on
There’s so much to do and it will take so long

You can’t stand still and you can’t move on
And you might not know why I write this song
You can’t stand still and you can’t move on
So it’s not all good, but then there’s nothing wrong

See Also

• Can’t Stand Still
  Listen to song - music from 1danband | dansingnew - lyrics music and instruments played by Dan Beck - recorded end of last year
• Escape from Cubicle Nation: There is nothing wrong with you
  sometimes things seem wrong when they are not - including ourselves

writing music, revisiting song, discussing lyrics, nothing’s wrong

Cover: 1danband | dansingnew - recording and digital painting - Dan Beck December 2005

I have written several songs in the last week and so my mind is a bit on music. I have been hoping to record some of them - just simple guitar and vocals which would be relatively quick - and informative to those who have only heard my overdubbed tracks.

Since I haven’t, I thought I would feature a recently revisited song from my last CD. The song is about the super hot day and the writing of the song itself - too hot to sit still and still not able to move. Needless to say, a lyric like that begins to look like anything and everything else in life. The chorus:

Patience, Virtue, Assertiveness
Listening, Asking, Believing in
Connecting to what counts

was what I was recently struck by. I love opposites - how we need to be both patient and not hesitate to act, listen but be ok with asking - having faith and try to maintain what is truly important.

In any event, I really like the song - enjoyed playing it again recently, and even listening to it. It makes me feel good and the final chorus kind of sums up that stuck paradox, by saying nothing is wrong.

Please have a listen - link to full song is below.

See Also

• Can’t Stand Still
  Third song on 1danband | dansingnew - discussed above
• Listen to Music at Outhouse Studios
  Music and discussion from three CD’s
• Overdubbing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  good explanation and see how prevalent overdubbing is

Lyrics to first song which sets tone for album

New CD - 1danband | dansingnew - available now!

The first track on the album as well as the first clip on the music page is probably my favorite song - not best song, not best on album, not best played - but song I probably like the best - at least this week.

As the first song - it sets the tone of the album - it is a bit amusing, definitely energetic, serious, but not all that serious. At least so I hope. The lyrics are included below - based on current observations of life:

Something must be wrong ‘cause I’m enjoying life
Seems I’m conditioned to not be this way
I’ve been way too happy, so there must be something wrong
Everybody knows, you’ve got to pay to play

 

We’ve been given this time
We don’t know when it will end
It’s our nature to squander
Our lot to pretend

We’ve been given this time
We might not get it again
It’s our nature to squander
And miss life staring ahead

 

There’s a price we all carry
For the pain of the world
Hurting our self
Just by being alive

There’s a price we all carry
For suffering through
We are all quite connected
It’s just one universe

Please go to the music page or listen to the excerpt from this song directly. 

See Also

• Here is the first paragraph, which sets the theme, tone and direction of my booklet:
  Good example of how a beginning sets the tone
• Marc Sabatella’s Jazz Improvisation Primer: Jazz Fundamentals
  Another example of the beginning setting the tone
• Listen to music at outhouse studios
  Excepts from 1danband | dansingnew - and purchasing info