Maybe Sunday
Episode #160: Maybe Sunday\xa0 \xa0(Song starts at 4:45)\nDuring the recording of an episode a few weeks back, the lyrics to 'Maybe Sunday' fell out of my song book. I said at the time \u201cHmmm maybe I should do an episode about writing that song.\u201d \nToday I picked up an old cassette tape an I discovered an old demo of 'Maybe Sunday'. That clinched it.\nThis episode has turned into a quite a light and breezy episode, which is probably a reflection of this song. \nWhile it\u2019s a song of perhaps longing, wondering and dreaming, the style I wrote in was really a mid tempo sort of song with acoustic guitar strumming in mind. \nCreating a song is an exercise in being lost in the moment. Well, lost to the world around me, but for me, it\u2019s not a case of being lost. Every action and thought is quite a decisive thing. \nIt\u2019s like \u2018playing with a purpose\u2019- and letting go of the outcome. It\u2019s a great of example of just enjoying the \u2018doing\u2019. Perhaps that\u2019s a big key of songwriting.\nThere\u2019s an element of performance, I think, too. You lift yourself, you trust yourself: that your fingers on the keys are going to do good things, as you improvise and accompaniment for an as yet imagined melody - which you then \u2018wing\u2019 over the top.\nIt\u2019s a fascinating process. It\u2019s fun analysing aspects of what is really quite a complicated thing. For me it\u2019s instinctive. How can that be? \nHaving the theory and playing chops under your belt certainly gives you confidence - and this: freedom. You\u2019re free to have fun. I think having fun is huge part of the songwriting process. \nSo I wrote the lyrics one evening, back in 1993. Wow, I\u2019ve just realised that was 30 years ago (goes silent for a moment) \u2026 time passing is not something I dwell on too often. \nThat\u2019s one of the great things about being a very active creative person, fully engaged in a number of disciplines. You are so often fully engaging so much of yourself in the moment, the past and future are forgotten about for the moment.\nThis amount of focus is the key. But for me, it\u2019s not sort of furiously involved, it\u2019s a gentle engagement, it\u2019s free feeling and - again - it\u2019s fun. A joy, if you well. \nAt the time I wrote 'Maybe Sunday', I was alone, thinking about someone - a potential romance, wondering whether it was going to happen.\nAt the same time my life was rapidly changing. I\u2019d left town, was as free as I\u2019d ever been. I was gigging when I could, fishing when I felt like it and\u2026 songwriting.\nThis sense of personal freedom is something that I constant allude to in my blog writing, as it turns out. \nOn that note, I\u2019m very grateful I\u2019ve chosen this creative path. Yes it has its challenges, but it is just so rewarding. \nI enjoy composing in different genres. On this episode I mention and play a bit of Albertine for the album 'The Unfolding' - Gentle piano solo. \nThen there\u2019s 'Mobile Phone'\u2026from the album 'The Roughest Cut' - total rock. \nI also paint seascapes, and draw cartoons animals \u2026yes, there\u2019s variety in my days. \nI mention these other things as I did say I\u2019d put my blog in the show notes: www.petepascoe.wordpress.com \nI hope you enjoy hearing about how 'Maybe Sunday' came together.\nHere we go\u2026