Songs
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Prologue
It was undecided until shortly before this collection of poems was in the process of being completed, to add an additional section with the lyrics from selected original songs. Over the course of thirteen years, more than one hundred and fifty songs were written, produced and published on YouTube. Also, there is a link to YouTube below the lyrics of each song that provides the complete vocal and instrumental and lyrics. You can listen to the song and return to the website.
A song can be written by one person or it can be a collaboration of two or more people. Songs can be written with three basic approaches and various innovations on these approaches. First, write the music and then write the lyrics to the music. Secondly, write the lyrics and then set music to the lyrics. Thirdly, write the lyrics and the music at the same time. The last of the three approaches is the one used. I use the approach of writing some of the lyrics, listening to what the lyrics are saying, and writing the music at the same time. The process is repeated until the song is complete. The lyrics intuitively provide the music and one must listen to the lyrics to find the music that lives inside the lyrics.
The arrangements and vocals and instrumentals for these songs have always been a collaboration of working with three wonderful and creative people. Anna Maria Soprano AKA Anna Maria Cavicchia provides vocals and wonderful creative interpretations and ideas. Her vocal range is from operatic to jazz and everything in between. Matt McKeown has provided numerous solo vocals and many duets with Anna Maria. Also, Matt McKeown and Alex Budzilik of Sound Mind Studios in Holly Hills Florida, have provided the recording studio facilities; the audio engineering; live instrumentals for percussion, keyboard, and strings; producing; and endless creative ideas and energy in a wide variety of genres.
I Am One Voice
The concept of each of us “being one voice,” has empowered people and thoughts and philosophies for movements and countries and armies and lovers.
Chorus
I am one voice
I will be heard
Just hear my song
Hear every word
I am one voice
My song is new
The song I sing
What I must do
I am one voice
Now we are two
The song we sing
The words are true
Verse
A thousand little breezes
Join in making wondrous winds
A journey of a thousand steps
With a single step begins
A bird sails upon its wings
As it soars and as it flies
It’s searching for a rainbow
As it climbs into the skies
There’s a single blade of grass
Then a meadow soon appears
We accept what each day brings
As the days become the years
I am a breeze
I am the wind
I am the steps
I am the wings
I am the grass
I am a day
I am one voice
I am one voice
We are one voice
Verse
We light one single candle
Then we light one thousand more
And every door that opens
Helps us find another door
One pebble on the water
Draws circles on the pond
Each horizon that we reach
New horizons lie beyond
We must love our fellow man
We must turn the other cheek
We never will be silent
When our hearts say we must speak
I am a light
I am a door
I am water
I am a pond
I am a cheek
I am a heart
I am one voice
I am one voice
We are one voice
Chorus
I am one voice
I am one voice
My song is free
And from the dark
Just hear my song
I hear a voice
For you for me
One tiny spark
I am one voice
I am one voice
The dream must start
The joy is grand
A song to sing
The music rings
From every heart
Trough out the land
Chorus
I am one voice
I am one voice
For all the world
Sing loud and clear
The dream is here
I sing my song
The dream’s unfurled
The world to share
Remember Me Remember Me
This song was inspired by the idea that each of us would possibly embrace the idea of participating in their own eulogy and relay the message to those left behind that they offer in their passing an endless gift of love. The story teller in this song is the person who has passed.
Each time you feel the warmth of spring
Hear the song the first robins sing
With all the joy that spring will bring
Remember me remember me
If you need someone to hold your hand
A loving heart to understand
Someone to share the dreams you’ve planned
Remember me remember me
When you need someone in your life
To take some wrong and make it right
When you’re lonely in the silent night
Remember me remember me
Don’t think of me as gone
Though gone somehow I stay
I have not traveled far
I’m just a memory away
Hear the sound of my voice
With love you’ll hear me say
For my gift of life rejoice
Yes, for my gift of life rejoice
See daffodils and butterflies
Search every morning with new surprise
I’ll live forever through your eyes
Remember me remember me
Each time you walk along the shore
Or watch an eagle fly and soar
Find joy in every open door
Remember me remember me
Recall the moments and love we share
Through all your life i will be there
A distant star but I’m still near
Remember me remember me
My desire is that my memories
Forever live inside your heart
Now i have found my peace
We’re together though we’re apart
For all the laughter
For all the tears
For all the love
For all the years
Remember me remember me
Remember me remember me
I Want to Do to You
Pablo Neruda, the Chilean Nobel Prize winning poet, was an extraordinary poet who has been translated from Spanish into English with joy and genius. One can only imagine the beauty of the original Spanish. A single line from one of his poems inspired this song. That line is “I want to do to you what cherry blossoms do to springtime.”
I want to do to you
What cherry blossoms do to spring time
Golden ponds do for morning sunshine
I want to do to you
I want to do to you
What rainy days do to daffodils
What a sunrise does to whippoorwills
I want to do to you
I want to do to you
What winds do to birds upon the wing
What summer rains do to rainbow-ing
I want to do to you
I want to do to you
All that’s in my heart
Let me do the things I want to do
There inside your heart
Let all my dreams come true
So I can do the things
I want to do to you
I want to do to you
What seashores do to rising tides
What joy looks like sparkling in your eyes
I want to do to you
I want to do to you
What rivers do as they greet the sea
What leaves do to branches on a tree
I want to do to you
I want to do to you
What cellos do to a symphony
What flowers do to a buzzing bee
I want to do to you
From now to eternity
Make my dreams come true
When you will do to me
What I want to do to you
What I want to do to you
My Old Age and My Old Dreams
Willie Nelson in 2020 is eighty-seven years old and has written over three thousand songs. Therefore, for Willie, who has been a runner, we can use the metaphor that it appears he is not on his last lap and has many laps to go. God love him and may he live forever. Certainly, his music and legacy will live forever. This song began as a personal reflection on growing old and advancing in age, with no desire to make it a song about Willie Nelson. Somehow it became a reflection on Willie Nelson and his life. The song is presumptuously biographical because his character and life events are well known. Willie Nelson’s music is one reason I write music in the country genre. More than thirty verses were written for this song, and only twenty or so actually used on the recording. Following are the chorus and selected verses.
Chorus
My old age and my old dreams
Simply are my fate
Yesterday’s old memories
Are on my mind of late
Old age arrived
And I’ve survived
I wish old age could wait
I do the best i could
I’m us ‘ly feeling good
Thank god sometimes I’m feeling great
Verses
Old oak trees stand very tall
And live a long long time
At the bottom of old kegs
Is the oldest finest wine
I have played a thousand songs
And played a thousand towns
Though my guitar’s a little worn
It makes the same sweet sound
Today’s the very oldest
That I have ever been
It also is the youngest
That I’ll ever be again
I have broken many hearts
I’ve had my heart broken too
I been foolish now and then
But that ain’t nothing new
Chorus
Verses
There’s a lot that I recall
And conveniently forget
If I did it all again
Hardly think of a regret
I wrote a thousand song
Sang them all thousand times
Some were true and some were lies
Don’t be fooled because they rhyme
The crowds have all applauded
I always sang the best i can
Just because they know my songs
Don’t mean that they know the man
On my cheeks there are some stains
Of tears that burned my eyes
Sometimes I was so foolish
But a few times i was wise
Chorus
Verses
I have searched some lonely roads
Many years back to the start
And most of what I’ve searched for
Was hidden deep inside my heart
I have loved a pretty face
Other times I loved the soul
Some women made me half a man
And some women made me whole
If you think that life’s a race
You won’t find the finish line
When you think the race is won
Got to run it one more time
I have lived among the crowds
People call me on the phone
When the crowds and voices leave
I was sleeping all alone
Music comes and music goes
Sometimes good and sometimes bad
I’m gonna sing my little songs
I’m no prisoner to some fad
I’ve bared my soul to Jesus
Hopin’ he would hear my plea
Tried to pray about the world
And a little less ’bout me
I came I saw and conquered
I just tried to find my way
Tellin’ stories with my songs
It’s just another way to pray
When they design my tombstone
There’s a story I can tell
He sang a lotta pretty songs
And he raised a little hell
Other Songs
Random Access to YouTube songs
Should there be an interest in randomly listening to other songs, proceed to the Link that follows. There are approximately one hundred and fifty songs on about seventeen albums. You can navigate through the albums and songs within the albums, and then return to this website.
