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Gypsy Heart & Other Stuff From My Heart

Update #2 · Apr 18, 2012 · 1 comment

Hi Ya'll! Wow, I am so overwhelmed with gratitude right now.  We have 16 days left (just over 2 weeks) and we have $765 left to raise.  There is no doubt in my mind that we will reach our goal :) It's been amazing connecting and re-connecting with all of you~ some of you are my family, pre-school teachers of mine, music teachers, friends.......my heart is just filled to the brim for all of you amazing souls. Yay!

On another note, this Saturday I am back in the studio, after a break last weekend.  I am so excited because last week I wrote a new song called " Gypsy Heart". And as promised I will be filming us every step of the way and updating here so you can see the song being built.  I thought I would start you off with the lyrics and talk to you a little bit about how the song was born. I am also attaching an audio file...recorded from my crappy computer, but I'm actually writing the song while recording and I thought it would be cool for you to see the very, very start. Sometimes when I'm too close to something, even if it is important, it is hard for me to write about. This song is in many ways a reflection of my marriage. I think it looks into that desire to have freedom and autonomy when things feel stagnant.  The story itself is made up, but the emotions that it sprouted from are true :) 

Verse l

She was a gypsy 

she came and went

buried there bones in wet cement

traded stories for postcard cents

Verse ll

And he was a fly frozen in the snow

stuck like an arrow without a bow

she said " die or go back home"

Chorus:

And she saddled two kids on her wide hips

took back her lung

and breathed inside it

as he fell apart

and she cut two straps

tied her hair back

broke her dress and climbed up the mast

sailed her gypsy heart

Verse lll ( still in process)

I can't wait to get in the studio with this song........I hear cello and violin and stand up bass....it has a very orchestral sound. 

To be continued.......

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      Creator Liz Menzies on April 18, 2012

      very pretty!

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