The Trees are Made of Glass

2 weeks ago by @dmelbygibbons

The Trees are Made of Glass

dmelbygibbons

00:00

00:00

Liner Notes

A friend of mine sent me a song he was working on in this AAB pattern. It was a Blues song with this type of phrasing. His song, the feel and the format kinda got stuck in my head, and then I started playing with some lyric ideas that showed up, inspired by that AAB phrasing in his song. You might want to try it! It’s a fun way to write!
For me, this song “The Trees Are Made of Glass” became a synthesis, or maybe a random working out, of a bunch of different things I was feeling and thinking about. I’m not sure where “The Trees Are Made of Glass” image came from, but it felt interesting/important to keep in there after it appeared. It’s the kind of song that could just keep going, with a few instrumentals sprinkled
throughout the verses. When I shared this recording with my friend, he dubbed it the “happy blues” :)
#ukulele #aabpatternblues #happyblues

Lyrics

I got a house in the forest where the trees are made of glass (x2)
I’m tryna get there in the daylight
but I cannot see the path

This world has a winning lawyer, but a neighbor is all it needs (x2)
I gotta shiny new bible but it just says do as you please

I’m going down to the corner to the end of the edge of town (x2)
I’m gonna walk my drunk friends home ‘til they come around

I’m growing up by a river
it’s got me singing wild and free (x2)
I’m gonna ask that living water to baptize all of me.

Instrumental

Well the sun is shining, and the birds are in the trees (x2)
I’m gonna thank my darling honey for being so sweet to me

I wake up in the morning when the summer days are long (x2)
Now that I see you are coming back, I don’t know if you’ve ever been gone

There’s a house in the forest where the trees are made of glass (x2)
if anybody wants to get back home
all they have to do is ask

Outro

Comments