Random Musings

There was this particular song which I presented together with my fellow lyricist-collaborator Betty at the recent Songcraft songwriting session which I’m slightly pleased with.

I came up with the melody to the song, and Betty came up with the lyrics.

Basically it all started with the line “You can tell me stories about your quiet little life”. I had this sliver of a song idea a few months back. However, all I had was bits of lyric here and there as well as a skeletal melody line.

And thus, I totally dropped the idea after sharing it with a few friends at the 1st Songcraft session in April, and didn’t pursue it any further. (Y’know, sometimes you get little song ideas, but you drop them because you don’t think that there’s any value in pursuing them.)

But a few weeks back, Betty reminded me about this song and told me that she actually liked what she heard when I presented it back then in April.

So we decided to collaborate on this and complete it into a full song. Betty wrote out the full lyrics apart from my opening line. And she graciously decided to keep the title too (which was something I also came up with back in April too). Betty’s lyrics and arrangements have turned this song into a lovely little duet.

Anyway, the reception to our collaboration was extremely encouraging, to say the least.

Betty and I are quite pleased with this little song of ours and hope to do a more proper recording of it soon.

Can’t wait!

(Click here to read Betty’s take on this particular song, as well as for the full lyrics.)

(Note: My voice is really really soft in the clip as I was busy trying to play accurately and sing the correct lyrics…which I was slightly unfamiliar with. Oops!)