Count On Love
Episode #203: Count On Love\xa0 \xa0 \xa0(Song starts at 3:42)\nWelcome to a very relaxed episode. Thanks for tuning in, by the way\u2026it\u2019s great that this podcast is being listened by people all around the world. Music is the international language isn\u2019t, it - or perhaps it\u2019s love?\nSong #617, Count On Love, started out life as a piano solo piece. You can hear the original piece on my album 'Peace' (1 hour of peaceful piano solo pieces).\nSomewhat bizarrely (and rather unromantically), it was one of 3 pieces I wrote back to back in about 30mins, to use to teach piano.\nAfter a while, it felt like this one was perhaps worth taking a bit further and the phrase \u2018count on love\u2019 came to me as I started humming and sounding out syllables as I played through the piece. And all the lyrics came out as fast as I could write them down.\nThat was the way this song came together. The flow was happening the afternoon I sat at my old upright piano and let my hands find the opening riff and away I went - and it was the same when the lyrics eventually came through. Flow would be the word.\nOn a whim, I picked up an old diary before I recorded this episode. I flicked open on the page where I was mourning letting go of an old piano - the one I wrote 'Count On Love' on.\nWe songwriters are a sentimental bunch. I\u2019d have a few pianos now, if I had the choice. But then, I\u2019m glad I\u2019ve passed them on. I hope someone else is still enjoying playing them today.\nAlso in the Diary, I\u2019d written at the same time about we had to move house unexpectedly, so there was a sense of melancholy about my mood. 'Count On Love' was written about that time, so maybe that\u2019s what was coming through.\n(I relate some memories from that time on this episode...I need not have worried as it turns out\u2026 the house we moved into had a nice room for a studio - and we are still there after 7 pretty much peaceful years).\nWhich brings me to this: with the arts, I think it really helps to be living the lifestyle to produce art and music with feeling. I can\u2019t help but have what I\u2019m feeling coming through my work.\nThe gist of the lyrics is: whenever you\u2019re feeling lost, you can always count on love. I was thinking of the cosmic sort of love that flows all a round and within us, the healing, creative force that whispers to us constantly, the voice that seems to suggests paths to take.\nPerhaps by composing and consequently tuning in to this domain so much, this has the effect of honing the \u2018muscle\u2019. For want of a better word. There\u2019s nothing like just doing it. Again and again\nIt\u2019s not something I take for granted. Far from it. It\u2019s a total mystery. It feels great to compose. Sometimes it just feels like you\u2019re being carried along on a breeze.\nThis sort of mood seems to pervade this episode. I hope you enjoy this one as I gently explore this gentle song with words and with my fingers on the keys.\nI particularly enjoy listening to my album 'Peace'. It just seems to flow along the way 'Count On Love'. It\u2019s one of 4 piano solo albums I have currently streaming.\nI always find some peace when I play piano.\nIt\u2019s great to be sharing so much here on this podcast. If you\u2019d like to read about more music, my art, here\u2019s my weekly blog\xa0www.petepascoe.Wordpress.com\xa0 Video courses coming up!\nOk here we go. Ready for another song and some chat? Rollin\u2019!