Vocals, strings, fills, and my email address

I keep redoing the vocals, and it's helping, but more practice is still in order.

I brought the strings back. The decidedly-non-guitar sound helps keep it interesting. Comments?

Notice the guitar fills and extra rhythms in the background. The song was feeling a little plain (and predictable) without them. I'm particularly happy with the texture added by the single-note guitar rhythm in the left channel under the chorus.

This is all in the new .mp3 Alpha20070722c.mp3.

You can always help out by downloading the mp3 and recording yourself singing or playing your instrument while listening to the mp3 through your headphones. You can email me at msongmsong__AT__gmail.com

Thanks for listening!

Laptop Back == More music

The MacBook is back and as good as new -- they even replaced the scratched, dented case!

In the sidebar is the latest version of the song. I rerecorded everything, used fewer tracks, killed the shaker dead, kept the volumes and effects more consistent in the mixdown, and, imho, gave a better performance. There's still room for improvement. Happily, there's still time for it.

Feedback's always appreciated. Thanks to those who commented and sent email.

Next: Tune the voice, replay the solo

Thanks for listening!

Lyrics

Laptop, smoke, out of warranty. But the Geniuses are kind and helpful.

While I wait for my MacBook's triumphant return, please be inspiried by the lyrics to The Marriage Song:


Sonetimes when we're alone
I look up and see you
50 years from now all gray and
Wrinkling, still everything to
Me

And I imagine a love
That could only come from 50 years of hoping through un-
Certainty, through better worse and
You and me
And I can't wait

Now, I don't know just what's got into me
In love like this I thought I'd never be
She's changed my mind, and through
All this time
I've known I'd always want her
In my life

Say, old man,
After all your
Time, why are you still smiling?
What have you done? What do you know?

For 50 years, as far as I re-
Member, every day I've
Seen here smiling back at me
And she's still the cutest girl I know

She makes it feel
Like autumn all the time
And she's the little girl
Who loved a little boy
In his dream

Now, I don't know just what's got into me
In love like this I thought I'd never be
She's changed my mind, and through
All this time
I've known I'd always want her
In my life

Sometimes when we're alone
I reach up and take your sweet face in my
Hand; that's how it goes and we both know
That we'll be in this 'till the end.



Thanks for the feedback so far. New, improved vocals are on the way!