I spent today producing a good 2004 song called One Day, and one called Coma (which I sing). I want to enter both in song writing competitions this year. Off to London tomorrow, and on Saturday I'm tracing a new version of my Liza Minnelli portrait so I can start painting it on the 29th. My latest song is below, it's an unusual ascending and descending chord arrangement that makes the song sound like waiting, every bit as much as today's One Day sounds like the race-against-time that it is.
Standing in the Rain
He said
he will not wait for her,
but he still stands there
in the light.
Cars hiss
and people float on by,
like time they fly past
in the night.
Standing in the rain,
underneath the light cone.
Looking at the shops,
thinking of the moment
when he saw her face
underneath that light cone
round about this place,
beautiful and lonely.
He might
be angry when she shows
but he won't mean it,
she won't mind.
He waits
and watches time fall by,
October rain fall
cool and fine.
Where could she have gone?
Is there something wrong there?
Then across the street
his and her eyes search then
meet.
