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The Life Of A Song

from Naked by Lee

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Lee/ B. Wolfe
Nacido Libre Music (ASCAP)/ Think Of One (ASCAP)

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A song starts out as a humble, heartfelt expression of some emotion usually too deeply buried to exist as mere words. A song is wrought from twisting emotions of a place far away, a love gone for now, a place that we wish to be, a happier time remembered or dreamed of.

A song is at once that loving mother and counselor of your hurts. It’s an attentive girlfriend dancing freely with you on the summer sand. It’s a child that you guide into the world with a firm, but gentle grasp of the hand. You prepare it for its journeys and teach it caution. Having been where it’s going 100 times over, the experience is still new to you, every step like a déjà vu, but still foreign to your nearly sealed eyes.

You go with this song, once some of your deepest emotions, and introduce it to the world. With all of your nurturing, guidance and preparation you can only hope that she’ll fair well. Every hour spent grooming and educating your song on the finer points of social existence have lead to the moment that you're about to taste.

Again, all at once, this song is your mother to calm you with peace amidst the ensuing fervor. She undresses you and strokes you right where it hurts the most. You can only sit back and watch as she spins out of control. You run faster to escape the arms of your once loving mother as you try to catch your lover while she’s falling.

You seem to have lost her. You seem to have lost that once firm grasp that you had on your baby’s eager hands. Again, you’ve lost her. She’ll have none of you.

She’s left you for another man as you expected she would. Knowing this you were already courting another to soften the blow. You watched her and her new lovers dance the way that you once dance with her. You watched them kissed her the way that you once kissed her on that gentle note. You once made love to her, but now it appears that your insistence that she learn to fuck the way you want has gotten the best of you.

Your song is all grown up now and you don’t have her to sit on your knees and tell stories to. You lost control of her innocence. She was once and idea so pure and simple. She listened to you cry in the dark when your lover died. She calmed your anger whenever you felt alone or misunderstood. She was the reason that you even wanted to live.

I had a song like that and when the applause stopped we went home together and made love.

The life of a song…

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from Naked, track released October 1, 2010
Fender Rhodes, keyboards & programming – Brian Wolfe
Bass guitar – Mike Rens
Recorded by Brian Wolfe at The Horn House, Miami, Florida
Mixed by Lee & Brian Wolfe at The Horn House, Miami, Florida

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