OCTOBER 15, 2009 9:18PM

Sometimes music just happens

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Life has been pretty real for a while and I'm still dealing with having too many thoughts and not enough words. 

 

Today while chopping up an onion for dinner I had a bit of inspiration and started singing a little song.  I sang the chorus over and over to remember it and worked on the lyrics as I did.  Eventually an idea came to the front for a topic for the song.  Once the veggies were all sauteing nicely I came into my office to type the whole thing up.  While I have a specific original tune in mind for it, you can probably sing it to any good traditional mountain folk like tune.

 

Chorus:
come, falling tears, bathe us in our sorrow,
come, falling tears, join us in our pain,
if the passing years don't bring relief from mourning,
come, falling tears, and wash away our shame.

The little boys will run and chase about the kitchen,
joy and noise a cover to their petty crime.
Caught with one filthy hand inside the cookie jar they
wail and whine and struggle when they're forced to serve their time

Chorus

First to peel potatoes, then to scrape the carrots
then wash the dishes, mind you scrub those pans.
Finally the onions are waiting for your chopping
behold the sorry fate of the devil's lazy hands.

Chorus

Oh to hear the wailing of the penitent sinner,
Oh to see the tears on the cheeks so young and pure.
It's the blessing of the onion to let us cry in open,
honest in emotion, dignity secure.

Chorus x2

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composition, modern folk music, folkmusic, songwriting, lyrics, music, and other affairs of just plain living, october is like september but with more memorials, followed the breadcrumbs back home, i ain't dead yet

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How do you manage to be so spot on, so often? Or is it just that many lives run parallel courses - different characters, different circumstances, but words that speak to all of those lives. Maybe that is how each of our individual experiences have universal implications. Just a thought.
Owl_Says_Who
October 15, 2009 11:29 PM
Usually, I think it is because most of the worries and fears we have are really rooted in believing that we're the only person who has ever felt X and in reality, almost everyone has been there in one way or another.

There is nothing new under the sun. This is either a very depressing thought or an inspiring thought depending on where one goes with it. Every day here in OS you can read the people who are depressed at the thought. I find it kinda comforting that I'm not the only person who feels utterly alone and confused and lost and kinda hungry.
dicea
October 15, 2009 11:33 PM
Amen. I find it inspiring and comforting. Rock on, 'dicea. Moo!
Owl_Says_Who
October 16, 2009 02:11 AM
As much as we like to think we're alone, original, or experiencing things no one else does, we can all come along to OS and find we have company. Great piece.
Geraint Isitt
October 16, 2009 08:18 AM
I always want to ask these folks...so if someone made themselves vulnerable to you, would you just go ahead and victimize them? (e.g. steal money out of their purse if they left it in the room with you alone). and also: "Are you saying that all men will rape a woman who makes herself vulnerable?" Because of course, they'll say No, and then you can point out, so only some men rape women, and who are those men? They're rapists, that's who. Sheesh.
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August 02, 2010 04:18 AM