Sunday Song # 6 - "Coach Caught Me Cryin'"

We lost our lead after my clumsy fumble
I couldn't shake the sadness and the shame
I know they say that winning doesn't matter
But what about when it's a play-off game?

People want to see you at the top
They crowd around to watch you shine
But every winning streak will someday stop
And that sure changes peoples' minds

A big success knows many skillful lovers
The lucky few may always get to choose
No winners lay alone beneath their covers
But True Loves sleep beside the ones who lose

People want to see you at the top
They crowd around to watch you shine
But every winning streak will someday stop
And that sure changes peoples' minds

For every winner, there's a loser left behind

For every winner, there's a loser left behind

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This song is yet another collaboration with Nate Mitchell of Cars Can Be Blue from his Titans days, a set of lyrics half-finished and abandoned more than two years ago. It's funny, I have a much easier time working with Nate when he himself is not in the picture to disagree with my decisions -- I think the problem with the two of us together is that each of us is determined to have final say about what stays or goes. 90% of the time we are in agreement but that other 10% of the time things can get so ugly!

But this time we were listening to some kind of corny 60s or 70s country hits and were kind of admiring the craft or use of metaphor or something. I can't really remember. Maybe it was a case of "Oh, that's easy, I bet we could write a hit country tune, no sweat," and I think maybe we went for the corniest possible scenario, starting as a joke but then getting more and more serious the longer we worked on it, so that by this finished version it is unusually heartfelt.

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This is another key of C tune, this time with not a single minor chord, the whole thing is C, F, and G -- I'm beginning to put together a track list for an EP with all the key of C outgoing topical songs, to be released simultaneously with the EP in the key of B, which will be the more cryptic art/literature songs. I'm curious to see which one people prefer and also just if anyone notices the difference.

This week (maybe because of the strange warm weather, maybe because Mercer offered me a February 14 show) I've felt excited about music again. I'm going to be trying out at least two potential bandmates this week. I'm determined to get back up to at least a five-piece band to do the more elaborate arrangements. Let me know if you're interested in trying out. I try to be pretty open-minded about finding a role for anyone interested, no matter what your individual talents may be. Visual art, choreography, lights, costumes! I just watched a DVD of Temptations performances, I was so blown way. Let's all get rich together!