FAWM: "The Mica in the Stone"

The Mica in the Stone

Liner Notes

FAWM 2025 / Song 10

Here are more lyrics written during 50/90 in 2024, probably for a skirmish prompt, but the music didn’t happen until today.

Instrument: longneck cedar soprano ukulele tuned high GCEA

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Lyrics

Nothing’s ever new,
Announced the hiker to the hill
If I don’t push this boulder, baby
Someone else will
And the rabbit pauses in the grass
To twitch as I pass by
I wish somebody’d lift my gaze,
Remind me of the sky

CHORUS: The green, the gold, the rainbow
Of the mica in the stone
Everybody’s colors looking for a home
Landed on this spinning rock,
Might not be quite alone
The green, the gold, the rainbow
Of the mica in the stone

Everything is new,
I heard the mountain tell the sea
Just one pebble shifts,
One flower blooms alongside me
But the ants, they keep on crawling
With their finite kind of dreams
Nobody inside can step out,
That’s the way it seems

CHORUS

They’re trying hard to make machines
To solve the puzzle of our math
The way we sometimes catch each other’s eye
— And have to laugh

The wind is in the aspens now
Not quite whisper, not quite roar
I’m sitting in it, thinking of you,
Like that’s what this sunshine is for

CHORUS

Comments

@tawny249 2d

I love this one! Such a cool tune, and it showcases your high notes really well. The lyrics are thoughtful and cheerful at the same time, that's hard to pull off. Beautiful chorus, too, with all the color imagery. I wave at your cats sleeping in the background! They seem so content. 😄

@andrewrusse 2d

Yep, love this too... led me off to your youtube ... listening to TS covers now :-)

I'm a big production guy too, but I started as an acoustic singer-songwriter back in the 70s... so now I force myself to do acoustic one takes on FAWM (I'd never get enough done otherwise) ... this year I'm LOVING doing it this way... And now you're making me want to get a Uke!