Drip 8 ~ Change and Regret ~ Love and Release

It’s interesting to try to determine whether a song is sad or uplifting. What is it that makes a piece of poetry happier than another? Unless we’re dealing with Hallmark Cards, there is usually some aspect of a verse that has some underlying bite of mortality to it. Things change and it’s hard to accept. Change and regret, love and release.

I originally thought this songs was about divorce. I was singing it as a solo and from the point of view of the singer it sounded to me like he wanted out. Was I everything? Well its time to try something else – stop the newspaper and call the kids. But when sung as a duet it takes on a whole different aspect of a waning point in the arc of love. Well the kids are out of the house. We need to move to a smaller place. Are we OK and do we still love each other. And the answer is yes, but differently.

I had been doing this at gigs with Lisa M., but I’ve recorded here with the famous Francine Wheeler of Swanky Hotel fame and more recently of The Dream Jam Band. She lends such a beautiful, laid-back feeling of “no worries” to the female character.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

~dg~

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What About Love?

What about you
What about me
Was I your guiding light
Your rock of Gibraltar
Did I part the sea
What about the moon
What about the sun
Was I everything you wished for
Was I the one
So what about you
So what about me
And what about love

Place your hand upon my face
Each touch is a memory
A different place
I’ll stop the newspaper
I’ll call the kids
Put our stuff in a plastic box
And close the lid

So this is all we have
So this is all we’ve earned
A simple good-bye
A tear in the eye
And then we breathe
Every morning we breathe

What about you
What about me
Was I your guiding light
Your rock of Gibraltar
Did I part the sea
What about the moon
What about the sun
Was I everything you wished for
Was I the one
So what about you
So what about me
And what about love

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