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"Josephine Ends" a sad song inspired by four friends who couldn't cope with this life. Song number 12 from lockdown… https://t.co/tQqFVzNVnw, - What a wonderful rehearsal this was! Bookings open now for this gig @RoundChapel Hackney 15th July. We are singing… https://t.co/nZCF9evkQb,
- RT @guardiannews: ‘Our ministers are philistines’: Elton John outraged as Brexit hits musicians https://t.co/ncDPeTEh3u,
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How to Write a Song
This is the age, for my generation, of parents passing over to the other side. A sad time filled with heavy-hearts, long farewells and sudden traumatising news.
I’m trying to get to Australia to see my mother but it’s just not that simple…nor that affordable…nor perhaps, so imperative…yet…
I have several friends who are watching a loved one let go, and it makes me realise that these words ‘yet’ and ‘perhaps’ have become code for ‘inevitable’…
…and so i entitle my next song ‘Yet’.
I close my eyes and wrap my heart around the word ‘yet.’ I play one chord on the piano but it doesn’t match how I feel. So I reach for another and am surprised to find that it is a major chord, not a minor chord, which resonates with this word for this song…