Got Away On Me Again
Episode #211:\xa0 Got Away On Me Again\xa0 (song starts at 4:02).
\nWelcome to another episode. Picture me sitting at my piano, with the microphone on. Before me I have my songbooks. I\u2019ve picked out a song Got Away On Me Again (Song # 663, written in 2017).
\nYes, I have a song to sing, which is nice to be able to present and talk about. I\u2019ve written quite a few over the years. It\u2019s nice to have them up my sleeve. The real pleasure has been the time spent creating them.
\nThere\u2019s a line in the this song. Time, time, time\u2019s got away on me again. It\u2019s funny, after last week\u2019s song, written in my twenties, the same theme has popped up again.
\nAlthough with this song, it\u2019s more just an observation, rather than sort of fretting about the years passing by a too quickly.
\nI really think one way to alleviate the worries of getting older is to immerse ourselves totally in some sort of artistic process.
\nIf I ever feel a sense of regret about anything in my life, one things for sure: I\u2019ve never regretted time spent writing songs, painting pictures or writing lyrics, etc.
\nThis week I performed Got Away On Me live this week at the Mornington Winter Music Festival, here on the Mornington peninsula, part of greater Melbourne, Australia.
\nI included a snippet of this live performance on this episode. On the street, it\u2019s incredibly noisy. There\u2019s an art to performing in that sort of an environment . What happens is: you\u2019re nipping in and out of \u2018the zone\u2019, as such. People walking by smile and nod and you reciprocate, perhaps say thanks for a dollar tossed into the briefcase with the CDs and sign. The cars, crows, the seagulls all catch your ear.
\nWhen I\u2019m songwriting , I\u2019ve been extremely lucky to have a very peaceful environment, for the most part. I think that\u2019s really important \u2026not essential, but it sure helps if you can really focus on what you\u2019re doing without any distractions. Fairly obvious, right?
\nThe thing is, the longer I\u2019m in the moment, the deeper in I get. It\u2019s definitely a shift in consciousness. You\u2019re gone. It\u2019s such a pleasure to be a songwriter. If you\u2019re thinking about getting into it, I say: go for it.
\nGot Away On Me Again is about catching those moments in your hands\u2026sure the years are passing by, but they\u2019re always going to be doing that.
\nSo we may as well be free and do things that we love doing - as much as possible. Personal freedom is the key,
\nAnd how do we create time to do this in our busy lives? I think by committing to a definitive amount of time each week. It doesn\u2019t have to be a lot of time, even 10mins. But if you do that you can up the ante to 20mins..and so on.
\nPretty soon, hopefully you\u2019ll be looking back on 6 months where it\u2019s become a habit, and you\u2019re enjoying it som much, it\u2019s something you really don\u2019t want to let go of.
\nThat\u2019s where I find myself: 200 odd podcast episodes, 200 odd blog posts, 800 songs, a dozen albums\xa0 (soon to be 17).
\nLooking forward to releasing some albums shorty. And finishing those video courses\u2026 yep time got away on me again.
\nI hope you enjoy having listen to this song \u2026and the chat
\nHere we go, rollin\u2019!
\nLyrics here (+ links to more art and music): www.petepascoe.wordpress.com