History Written on the Water – A song

TL:DR – I’ve written a new song. It’s not finished. I’ve written about it here, but will release the song on BandCamp once I’ve finished mixing it and created some artwork. I came across the phrase his history was written on the water, something like that, I didn’t note it down, but the idea stuck in my head, history as ephemeral information easily lost, never really solid in the first place. As is my wont, I wrote a few words around it, trying to make a new song. I had a little chord progression that involved two-finger open chords up and down the neck, but fundamentally Em-C-Am-B. I recorded a demo with the rough words a couple of days before my birthday, but it didn’t really gel. It was sparse, fragile, spare…could’ve been a nice song, perhaps sung by someone else. I was going to ditch it. But, come Friday evening with an empty house, I went back to basics with those open chords and just played them as I would at the first positions on guitar with a couple of little tweaks. It was a bit too high for me to sing the melody I’d come up with comfortably, so I stuck a capo on the third fret and dropped my voice to fit. Worked up the lyrics over the evening and came up with a way to make a chorus work, chopping up the evolving chord progression of the verse and making it a more basic rock pattern. Then a bridge with a spot of modulation, a key change, to open things up and take it back into a final chorus. So, with lyr...
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