I Can See Your Eyes
Episode #143: I Can See Your Eyes\xa0 \xa0(Song starts at 3.39) \nA demo of 'I Can See Your Eyes' (Song #551) popped up unexpectedly on my iPad as I drove along to my teaching job the other morning (I may have got up a bit to watch some World Cup soccer). As I was driving, I thought wow, that\u2019d be a great song to feature on an episode. So here it is.\nBack about a decade ago, I was recording 'The Man In Blue' album. (streaming now) \u2026coincidentally, I just flicked open a random diary and saw that I was watching World Cup soccer back when I was recording this demo. Bizarre.\nDan Dew, the drummer for the Patient Hum ( my current band), had just laid down all the drum tracks for 'The Man In Blue'. I then asked him if he felt like having a hit through another 12 songs I had lined up to try with the band. With a twinkle in his eye, Dan said \u201cSure, why not\u201d. I do like to be in the studio...\nThen our lead guitarist, Neil Sims, got involved by recording some acoustic guitar and we went straight on into recording a solo.\nI mention all of this recording/ production work, because of the way one unexpected moment leads onto the next.\nIt\u2019s the same with song writing.\nWhen I wrote the first line \u201cWhen the sleep has washed me under\u201d, this almost nonsensical line was the beginning of a whole series of events which became a fully formed song - and then a quite produced demo.\n(In case you\u2019re wondering why we\u2019ve never finished this\u2026.and why hasn\u2019t it turned up on an album? Well, the multitrack recording is on a portable hard drive, which I think has died. Yep. The only copy. Ahh well. I\u2019ll take it in to a computer place and see if it really is a goner. Regardless, We\u2019ll revisit this song some time. Sure would be nice to start with this session, though).\nAnyway, back to the song.\u2019The sleep that washed me under\u2019 lead me straight into the dream state, where I started seeing a sort of a movie, which was part \u2018me\u2019, I think. I could read the thoughts of the couple\u2026it was just an early morning scene, the sun coming up.\nThen a few words sort of tumbled out of the mouth of one of the \u2018characters\u2019, which became the crux of the song.\nIt\u2019s fun, writing and following a story like this, it\u2019s like you\u2019re a secretary, jotting down the words that pop into mind, as you are describing the action.\n\xa0I don\u2019t necessarily begin at the beginning of the story when I write the lyrics.The imagery, the story, appear like a layers of an onion.\nIt\u2019s a bit like a person\u2019s life: more and more layers become apparent as time goes by.\nThe music came from the same warm, subconscious dreamy sort of realm. I take notes, playing the music that I can \u2018hear\u2019, somehow\xa0 a moment before it is required.\nI guess it\u2019s \u2018being in the zone\u2019, which I spoke about on a recent blog.\nOk, I hope you enjoy the chat this week - and this particularly sort of well fleshed out / more arranged demo.\nBy the way , the Lyrics will be on the blog, as usual:\xa0www.petepascoe.Wordpress.com\xa0( plus cartoons, seascapes, writing and links to lots more creative stuff).\xa0 Enjoy.