We Wait (Morph)

by @debs

We Wait (Morph)
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Liner Notes

In the Morph challenge, you listen to the song of the person before you and create a new one, using 50% of their material and 50% new. What that 50% means is up to you! To learn more it (and sign up!) check out this thread: https://write.fawm.org/forums/2976

1. @erbaer - https://write.fawm.org/songs/305543
2. @nadine - https://write.fawm.org/songs/306557
3. @kosch - https://write.fawm.org/songs/307379
4. @andygetch - https://write.fawm.org/songs/307423
5. @debs <— this song
6. @mikehex - https://write.fawm.org/songs/312298
7. @robheron1 - https://write.fawm.org/songs/313213

I got to morph @andygetch's song! Without sharing too many spoilers for @mikehex, I used the same open D tuning and some of the same chords and lyrics.

Verse Chords: Dm G Dm / Dm G Dm / F# m* G Dm / Dm G Dm
Chorus: G A B / G A B / G A B / G# maj* G /

(* might be slightly wrong, I'm not always great at picking these out!)

#morph3 #morph

#openDtuning #DADF^AD #girlwithguitar #acousticonetake

Lyrics

We wait for an invitation
We wait for the planets to align
We wait until we feel ready
And we tell ourselves that this is wise

We wait while we walk the roads in our heads
Of everything that can go wrong
We circle the spaces that we know
And hope that they’ll be changing

There’s no right time
For any of this mess
There’s no right time
To start it all again
And that’s left is
Wondering where the true path is

We wait til we start to crumble
We wait ‘til we have no choice
We wait until we feel humble and low
We wait ‘til we have no voice

There’s no right time
For any of this mess
There’s no right time
To start it all again
And that’s left is
Wondering where the true path is

Comments

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I'm in the morph chain below. I like your deviation. The singing with back-ups is great. I like your happy sound. Your lyric really hangs together well and has a consistent message. Thanks!
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Our voices would absolutely murder hearts together. I think we should test my theory. I really like this beautiful simple song and theme.
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This is very sweet - I love the harmony vocals.
I've determined Morphing is fun (this t'was my first go 🙂)
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Gorgeous. This is so beautiful, wistful, lost and found. I almost don't want to rip and mangle it into something else as part of the morph.

Almost.

Love the song, and I'm up! I'll see what I can do
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Man, we make some crazed sh*t together, but the truth is you are one killer top-notch song writer on your own (I think you know that). I'm thinking of the other solo piece you did this year too. Wowwy the wow! Also, cool use of snapazoids! The decision to do it sparsely like that is really swell.
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Oh I'm all in on those harmonies tho.

Couldn't agree more with the sentiment and construction of this lyric. Very effective stuff
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