This is my live solo-acoustic cover of Missy Higgins' masterpiece, Night Minds. I find the lyrics and melody of this song to be heavenly cathartic each and every time I express it. She is such a master of conveying powerful messages with unfettered simplicity. I encourage you to explore her work if you have not already done so.
Cover tunes can be difficult for singer/songwriters to deliver authentically as we are so accustomed to expressing our own material. It's not so much that it's difficult to connect to other people's songs in terms of listening to them and feeling them and enjoying them, but when it comes to actually PERFORMING them yourself...well...it has to be something that's so visceral, you could have conceivably written it yourself, lest you feel like you're being untruthful. This song hits home on such a personal level. I hope you enjoy it.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Slide shows to Leave the Light on and Dorothy
I'm having a rather fun time playing with iMovie and making slide shows to some of my professional recordings and demos. Here are a few I've done recently....The first is from my "Songbird" EP. The second from my "Light of the Moon" EP.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Invisible
Scroll down on the player to hear my latest tune, Invisible. It's just a scratch demo, but I think that even when I do get into the studio to record it, I would like to keep it very spartan. I like the vibe. Honest. Bold. But with vulnerable undertones. I wouldn't want the intimacy to get lost and bogged down in the production.
Invisible
Invisible
Shakin off the cobwebs from your head, just rollin out of bed
The coffee’s waitin, got a big day ahead
But do you think of me?
Well, no….I am invisible….
Out of sight, out of mind, small talk’s just a waste of time
Going dark would seem to suit you just fine
But do you think of me?
….Or am I invisible?
Push me away, try to keep me at bay
Make me invisible
Don’t know why. Don’t know how you keep up this monastic vow
You distance yourself. Man, you just don’t allow yourself to
Think of me…
I am invisible.
But baby it don’t work that way for me, I’m not ashamed to say
I think of you each and every day
Oh yeah I think of you, even though
I am invisible
Push me away, I guess forever I’ll stay
Invisible
Feelin’ like a stick of gum chewed up till my flavor’s gone
Tossed out on some random lawn to disintegrate till I am gone
And I am invisible
A perfect match in a perfect world, I fit your rubric of the girl
Who’ll blow your mind wearing leather or pearls
You think you’d think of me, yet
I am invisible
You think it’s smart. You think your wise, but baby I know otherwise
You’re wasting your time with all these dead end tries
Why don’t you think of me instead of relegating me to
Invisible
Invisible
Invisible
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