Ha, I think yes - I guess bubbling away in the background of these lyrics is a bit of an unfair winge about baby boomers. Personally I don't subscribe to the notion that a whole generation can be tarred with the same brush, but sometimes it's funny to do it anyway. I agree about the slide by the way - @davidtaro did a pretty stellar job I thought.

Thanks man! I have a feeling that the slide on For You Blue is Lennon, and I suspect like Lennon I don’t really know what I’m doing on lap steel 😂 so not surprised it sounds similar! I shall leave the question of curmudgeon vs tree hugger to my colleague @brisk who wrote the words, but my sense is the former 👍

Thanks for the Kleptomaniac listen and comment!

Thanks for the kind words on Help Me Out, glad you liked it

Merci pour ton commentaire sur "le café du matin" ! J'avoue que mélanger le trivial et l'idéal est un de mes péché mignons. Encore je suis resté léger avec ce "tout bête"... Mon poète vivant préféré est Jean-Pierre Verheggen ; à côté de lui, je fais dans la dentelle ! Mais je devrais sans doute apprendre à maîtriser cette tendance, la gommer quand elle gêne et l'accentuer là ou elle fonctionne.

Thanks for listening to "The Algorithm" and "Out of the Blue Came You" and taking the time to comment.

on "Out of the Blue Came You"
What happened afterward?
A gentleman never tells ;-)

Buddy I'm pressed for time in a way I can't even articulate; it's harvest time. Name the 3 you're proudest of, Imma listen to those.

I would love that if you want to add music!!! That would be awesome!

Or if you think about it, take all the water out of the human body and what, basically, do you have left? ;)

Thanks for the kind comment!

I have no idea about how these things happen, but I do know I was following you in earlier FAWMs. Back on and I still love what you do. Congrats on an amazing FAWM and seriously, let’s be sure to get a collab started early next time!

Thanks so much for your comment on RayRay sings the blues, it was fun to do with him!

Thanks for your comment on "Magnetic Rose". I'm happy that you enjoyed the collab, it's been one of my personal highlights this FAWM.
Well, it started as a 4 track but it got a bit bigger, cause I was not able to create a wall of guitars with one recording only. And mixing became a mess with guitar and bass in the center both, so I needed another recording. In total we have 9 recordings in the arrangement and it's stunning that you can make them sound so big. Outside FAWM I'd add another pair of guitars and vocals. That's it. Not a big fan of thickening with synths and occasional blips, but some people do, yes!

I'd definitely be up for trying out your music theory class, if you still have open spots. Thank you!

thank you for your comments, especially those on i just want to kiss a girl. i have been trying to get away from standard formats while still relying upon the mechanics of their parts. i find verse chorus verse and sometimes bridge repititions to be boring. by the third verse, many listeners will just read the remaining lyrics and be done with it. while this is in most ways a conventional rock ballad, there are enough irregularities so that, for me at least, it holds my attention to the end. regarding those final 8 lines, it is a different movie. the search for excitement or fullfillment or even distraction has ended without resolution and he is alienated in a crowd of lovers. i visualize this final scene as something like the end of a chaplin movie. a relatively still character engulfed in external motion. the eatlier, 8 line verses you liked were propelled by a narrative thrust that carried the character along. in the end, the narrative ceases, and with it is lostthe poetic velocity of the lyric, with the oyster and pearl metaphors a denial of the poetics of romantic banditry.

Thank you for the song comments and responses in my thread.

Thank you! Yes, I read the lyrics of "Right side of the road" as nostalgia. Reminding how an acquaintance had big plans in the past that never happened. Not sure if I will record this one for real. On the one hand I like the energy, on the other hand, I won't consider myself a performer and vocalist. I just had fun rearranging a song into a different genre.

hey i usually like to compile my fawmsongs at the end of the month onto my bandcamp page, & i was wondering if you'd be cool with me including the sleep it off vocal mix w/ that collection? credit will be given where due of course 😄

Thanks for your feedback. I've only used one backing track on my vocal "experiment" thus far.

Okay, it's an easy win to get closer to 14! 😉

Thank you for checking out Hand-me- down life. I went back in and briefly touched on my adventures

Ooh, interesting, I'd love to see Gorey drawing to this song. Like Synesthesia but in sketchy black lines. Thanks for the comments!

@leepat Thanks for the comment on "Beastie Blues", I think I wrote a 10-bar blues there, it skips bar 7 and 8 of the standard 12-bar (2nd I-chord section).

Thanks for the comments, @leepat! Much appreciated!

Thanks for the comment on "Worth Slaying For." I think you're hearing the Bbm6? I love that chord on uke.

Hey hey, nothing in my email, but I trust you! Post away, and feel free to use the original lyric or change it however you wish too, it's all good. Excited to hear it.

Thanks for the feedback on Hi, A.I. - You have me thinking for when I return to try and finish it. Thank you!

Hey there, I got it but haven’t had time to get to it yet. I will soon though. Thanks for doing this. I will make time for it.

Yes, Jungle Book - well spotted

Hi! Thanks for checking out "You Give Good Text!" I definitely had fun with those short line rhythms.

Hello to you! Thanks for stopping by and having a listen. Of course that would be fine to sing on Thinking Problem. Thanks for your interest!

Thanks for listening to "Devils on the Trampolines of Hell." I felt like "My stomach is a pit of dirty snow" was at once both a way I'd never thought of my anxiety and completely honest and accurate. ;)

hi! you can reach me at marksilvermedia@protonmail.com for email inquiries! I look forward to hearing what you came up with! 🙏

Thanks for the great comment on "A Love I Can Not Have", I really appreciate it! I agree completely, and have been mulling that exact thing ever since I first sang it, how to define the timespan between the two verses a little more succinctly. While still fighting my deep inner need to please everyone except myself, lol. Oh Anxious Attachment Style, why do you haunt me so? 😆

I HAVE seen Glass Onion! I love murder mysteries! I hope they make a 3rd Knives Out movie. I love Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc.

The cranium is open!

great to see you here again this year! I am SO checking out your Youtube channel :-).

Hi Lee! Great to see you here!!! I love reconnecting like this every year! Happy FAWM. You are off to a great start! I loved your first song.

Thanks for visiting my first song. It usually takes me forever to get the first song up. I'm proud of myself for not beaiting around the bush too much this year. So are we going to write together again this year? I feel like an annoying younger sibling.... :)

Happy FAWMing!

yep mate will get around to it. i have always followed your theory stuff out of interest.

Hi Lee
Happy FAWMing

Cheers. You too, Lee.

I'm significantly less sensitive than I was last year, but I can't say I won't still complain in song. Are you wound up for anything in particular this year?

Leepatting, not, would ya? Got a lyric when you ready :)

Hey there Iliya, hope you’ll send me some more guitar niceness this FAWM. I love and still actively perform both songs we collaborated on previously. Thanks for all your kind encouragement.

Hi Lee, have a good FAWM