Kiss The Sun
Jan. 14th, 2009 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiThere is a Mexican restaurant in Dallas, Tex Mex of course, and it is, to my mind, as far up on the totem pole of Mexican food as one can get. It's called Tupinamba, and it's a 250 seat place where all spicing is still done by family members. They're generally thought to have introduced the Nacho and the Sour Cream Enchilada to the North Texas area, and they've been around for well over half a century. It is one of the main places I like to eat when in Dallas, but on Fridays and Saturdays in the evening especially it can get very crowded and a wait is very common. (They also have a Sunday Brunch to die for)
So, one Friday back in 1994 I was there with the (then) spouse, my lead singer, and some friends. We'd just finished working on a tune that our then Guitarist wrote, called Dancing on the Rings of Saturn. It was a very New Age (the philosophy, not the musical style) song, with pseudo-folk elements and lyrics that sounded like they came off a 5th Dimension album in 1969. So, since I had a little time to kill and my day planner with lots of spare blank paper in it, I decided I had a bit of time to write some lyrics.
The line came to me, "Why do we have wings if we will not fly?" Of course, this is not really grounded in reality, but it was an interesting approach to a logical conundrum -- throw logic out the window completely. So I continued, "Why do we have ands if we can't touch the sky?" And I was off. The chours came quickly, but then the first and second verses came out, with the first two lines of the third, and our table was ready. So, then I started trying to finish it but the inspiration wasn't there.
So Kiss the Sun sat for some time, . Last year I got a friend to help me transcribe it into the computer, (A task not for the faint of heart, my handwriting is terrible) and I managed to finish the lyrics, and it went on the list for sequencing.
Kiss the sun has a strange form. The verse is the same as the first half of the chours, doubled. There's a break in it before the choruses, though, which is something of a B section. So the form is AA1AABAA1AAbAA1AAbAA1. Instrumentation is piano, Viola, strings, vocal, bass, and drums, with guiro and claves for extra percussion.
We're getting down to the end of the songs here. I have to finish The Ballad of Jason and Martine, then sequence all of Religious Rights. Obligations also needs some attention, but since that album isn't slated for this year, it might be able to wait, though I'd prefer not to if I can help it.
So, one Friday back in 1994 I was there with the (then) spouse, my lead singer, and some friends. We'd just finished working on a tune that our then Guitarist wrote, called Dancing on the Rings of Saturn. It was a very New Age (the philosophy, not the musical style) song, with pseudo-folk elements and lyrics that sounded like they came off a 5th Dimension album in 1969. So, since I had a little time to kill and my day planner with lots of spare blank paper in it, I decided I had a bit of time to write some lyrics.
The line came to me, "Why do we have wings if we will not fly?" Of course, this is not really grounded in reality, but it was an interesting approach to a logical conundrum -- throw logic out the window completely. So I continued, "Why do we have ands if we can't touch the sky?" And I was off. The chours came quickly, but then the first and second verses came out, with the first two lines of the third, and our table was ready. So, then I started trying to finish it but the inspiration wasn't there.
So Kiss the Sun sat for some time, . Last year I got a friend to help me transcribe it into the computer, (A task not for the faint of heart, my handwriting is terrible) and I managed to finish the lyrics, and it went on the list for sequencing.
Kiss the sun has a strange form. The verse is the same as the first half of the chours, doubled. There's a break in it before the choruses, though, which is something of a B section. So the form is AA1AABAA1AAbAA1AAbAA1. Instrumentation is piano, Viola, strings, vocal, bass, and drums, with guiro and claves for extra percussion.
We're getting down to the end of the songs here. I have to finish The Ballad of Jason and Martine, then sequence all of Religious Rights. Obligations also needs some attention, but since that album isn't slated for this year, it might be able to wait, though I'd prefer not to if I can help it.
