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Mike sent me an mp3 of him strumming on acoustic guitar singing te words to this tune, and a close version of the final melody. I liked the sound with the acoustic, so that became the primary sound for the official arrangement. Did a little tweaking for chorus; added a bridge. This song is/was so mellow that I never quite felt it belonged in the Legacy project (although Mike had written it specificaly for Legacy.) I never really experimented with alternate versions of this tune (though there was the latin mariachi version, but that doesn't count, does it? no, it really doesn't.)

I hope I die before I wake.
I pray the lord my soul to take.
I don’t want to live here no more.
I rode this world Around and Round,
a slave to what I never found.
I don’t want to Be here no More.

And My eyes, How their burning
And my soul, It Screams
And I, Don’t want to live without you
Because I’ve outlived my dreams

We Hoped to live to see the day
When our youth had Finally Slipped away
I will Never Love None But You
the darkness came, and took you with my heart
And my perfect World, Began To Fall Apart
And I needed, I needed So much more of you

And My eyes, How their burning
And my soul, It Screams
And I, will never live without you
Because I’ve outlived my dreams

 

words copyright 2005 Mike malone

Having finally gotten a certain degree of objectivity about the song (since I haven't listened to it much these past several months while working on other things), I went back to it tonight and was struck by how "happy" the tune sounds. Here it is about depression and giving up ... and it doesn't in a really cheerful kind of way. Maybe that's a good thing. I don't know. But it is a little funny. Suddenly the guffaws over the Charlie Brown Christmas piano version don't seem quite as silly.

I was also struck by the juxtaposition of the emotional elements. I thought if provided a wierd/unique character to the song.