Seasons Part 1 - Journey Continues
My band Sojourn has just started playing out with our new drummer, and we’re “touring” our new CD “The Journey Continues”. It’s available at our web page www.sojournband.com
Here’s a peak into the title cut.
SEASONS
by Sojourn © 2004
Eb and flow
Seasons
Each in turn
Blessings and trials
Bound together
Pave the road ahead
The journey continues
If I see to the journey's end
Life would be so easy
But then would I need faith?
As seasons go
I grow
More through
The effort to believe
So much remains unseen
But I take a step
Suprised where it takes me
When I was in college I read a book by Daniel J. Levinson called "The Seasons of a Man's Life" I can't say that I remember know the majority of the content, but the main premise of the book is that as a man goes through the years of his life, there are seasons.
Each season represents the expectations, desires, and reactions typical for a person of a particular age.
Well last year, Dean (guitar) started playing something kind of gentle and sweet The drums and bass caught on to the groove, and everyone seemed to like it.
Everyone looked to me for lyrics. Often when the guys come up with the elements of a song, the song itself suggests some lyrics to me. That's the way it was with This Is The Way for example. This time, however, I had nothing. I was absolutely dry. I told the guys that if they wanted lyrics for the song, I had to have help this time.
Denny and Tim said to make it something about the seasons changing. Right then it clicked in my head. Almost in a moment the lyrics came to me.
It was cool.
Another interesting thing was that the title of the song, “The Journey Continues”, had been suggested months earlier as the name of our new CD. We decided that we liked the name, and didn't feel that the name of the CD had to match a song on the CD. Yet the name of the CD fit right into the new song to make a title cut anyway.
It was cool.
The lyrics may not seem like much, but they bear a great deal on my own life. I'll try and give you a peak inside my head and heart and what lead to this song. Lyrics never come out of nowhere. They nearly always are coming out of thoughts and struggles that I have been having for a while.
Later.
Adam
Here’s a peak into the title cut.
SEASONS
by Sojourn © 2004
Eb and flow
Seasons
Each in turn
Blessings and trials
Bound together
Pave the road ahead
The journey continues
If I see to the journey's end
Life would be so easy
But then would I need faith?
As seasons go
I grow
More through
The effort to believe
So much remains unseen
But I take a step
Suprised where it takes me
When I was in college I read a book by Daniel J. Levinson called "The Seasons of a Man's Life" I can't say that I remember know the majority of the content, but the main premise of the book is that as a man goes through the years of his life, there are seasons.
Each season represents the expectations, desires, and reactions typical for a person of a particular age.
Well last year, Dean (guitar) started playing something kind of gentle and sweet The drums and bass caught on to the groove, and everyone seemed to like it.
Everyone looked to me for lyrics. Often when the guys come up with the elements of a song, the song itself suggests some lyrics to me. That's the way it was with This Is The Way for example. This time, however, I had nothing. I was absolutely dry. I told the guys that if they wanted lyrics for the song, I had to have help this time.
Denny and Tim said to make it something about the seasons changing. Right then it clicked in my head. Almost in a moment the lyrics came to me.
It was cool.
Another interesting thing was that the title of the song, “The Journey Continues”, had been suggested months earlier as the name of our new CD. We decided that we liked the name, and didn't feel that the name of the CD had to match a song on the CD. Yet the name of the CD fit right into the new song to make a title cut anyway.
It was cool.
The lyrics may not seem like much, but they bear a great deal on my own life. I'll try and give you a peak inside my head and heart and what lead to this song. Lyrics never come out of nowhere. They nearly always are coming out of thoughts and struggles that I have been having for a while.
Later.
Adam
posted by Sojourn @ 10:36 AM
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