The Wikiness

Here’s a song that sort of fell out of my acoustic Yamaha last week. I picked it up and an odd voicing came out when my hands hit the strings. I looped it in GarageBand and added words that grew from the feel.

The most innovative element was picking up my wife’s violin for the first time (without her permission, but she retrospectively forgave me) and trying to embellish with a counter melody.

I hope it conveys some of the mood of suddenly stark cold–the mental wake up and attendant clarity the weather can bring.

Here are the lyrics:

Welcome, cold December

From childhood I remember

things that seemed too awful once to say

Like a dream castrated, or a virgin mated,

Or a dream house fallen in decay

I see you

I allow you

Only last December

I had just surrendered

I couldn’t fight the warming of the frost

I saw the urgent urges, let what would emerge and

Held the bloody mess despite the cost

I see you

I let you

As always, constructive criticism is welcome!