Wanderlost

ABOUT

Wanderlost

Original FAWM '04 Notes

Ok, I have been extremely busy with work and stuff, but I cranked this out. I'm not particularly happy with it, but it is at least better than nothing.

It was originally patterned after old sea shanty/folk song type songs... sort of the melancholy wandering song, but as is usual with my stuff it didn't quite fit that and ended up being depressing, so I apologize. It's kinda derivative and I'm not sure if I would keep it beyond February, but the point of FAWM is to write and not critique, so here it is anyway.

I have had a total of 3 hours to record so far this month and 2 of those were spent trying to figure out why I had a nasty hum in my system (pickup+Room Light Fader+UPS on PC=Nasty), so I finally gave up trying to do it as a completely live take and just recorded the guitar part at about midnight last night. I will slap the vocals on tonight and upload it.

The song is actually about my job, if you can believe it, but it goes for anytime you're life is lost and you're not sure where you should be.


New Notes

After living with this song a while, I became a lot happier. This was the first song I wrote for FAWM '04 and so I was still carrying a certain amount of perfectionism into it. (It seems so long ago...) FAWM has taught me to let slip the details and just write. In 28 days, you don't have time to sweat over minutiae.

When I started FAWM '05, I decided I wanted to do a song that emulates older styles, like I did in '04 with this song. Setting out So in '04 I did a Sea Shanty, in '05 I did a drinking song. I wonder what I'll pull out in '06.

I still play this song in my live set. I think it has gotten a bit better since I first recorded it.

LYRICS

Wanderlost

I have searched a thousand days
for a wind I can not find
I tug the line to flap the sail
and row past whats behind

Adrift, aground, around the bend
'cross swells both high and low
I stand my watch and look beyond
the shores I'll never know

Blow blow, cold North Wind
bear me back to shore
shine the star, set my course
guide me evermore

Down a lane among the leaves
beneath the moon so true
I wander lost among the trees
but feel the sea so blue

Blow blow cold North Wind
bear me to my home
shine sweet star, set my course
wherever I may roam

First the wind, then the storm
Now the Hurricane
with this ache in my soul
that echoes in the rain

The sea calls and then the leaves
as do the fields and sand
but long will I wander thus
to know no sea or land

Blow blow cold North Wind
bear me back to shore
shine the star, set my course
guide me evermore

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