Sleeping On A Wish
Episode #201: Sleeping On A Wish (Song starts at\xa0 4:08)\nI\u2019m in a fairly relaxed state of mind. I\u2019ve been holidaying, camping beside a stream In Bright, Vic, Australia.\nThe sound of the stream is what I\u2019ve brought back with me, it just sort of permeates the whole being, the sounds of the stream and birds.\nSo when I came into my studio, I thought to myself I\u2019m not going to do a rock n roll song\u2026I\u2019m in a cruisey mood.\n'Sleeping On A Wish' came from a phrase my daughter said to me when she was very, very young. It\u2019s a nice time, having a wee conversation with your child just before you put the light out. Sometimes there\u2019s a very honest lovely unexpected conversation. It\u2019s from the heart\xa0- it\u2019s beautiful.\n\u201cSleeping on a wish\u201d \u2026.I said to my daughter "I think I\u2019m going to write a song with that\u201d...she said \u201cYou do that, Dad\u201d.\nSo I did.\nAll you need is a start. A start comes from feeling, that\u2019s what I make sure of. It\u2019s art. It\u2019s got to come from the true part of the self.\nI went to my studio and wrote the words. Then came the music, the whole song flowed. Each section followed easily, naturally. Like a Goodnight story.\nI really enjoyed recording the demo for this song, as part of this episode. 'Sleeping On A Wish' is song # 604, written in 2014. Here we are in 2024 and it\u2019s seeing the light of day.\nIt nearly ended up on a children\u2019s album, which I recorded back then and inexplicably never released.\nHmmm maybe it\u2019s nearly time to revisit those songs and put them out there. I believe I will enjoy recording this song properly one day.\nWho knows, maybe the demo I just recorded will will become the starting point. The great thing about digital recording is: the demo can become the real thing.\nThis has been an extremely relaxed episode for me to record once again - I even recite the lyrics as poetry.\nWhy not, I like to have fun and play as I wing these spoken word half hour episodes. I\u2019m very comfortable sitting at my piano as I chat, there is no script.\nI\u2019ve discovered by accident, really: since I\u2019m exploring a creative exercise, it\u2019s made sense to have fun and just play as I go.\nI\u2019ve\xa0 included a recording of the birds and stream from my holiday, here. It made sense, as this is what got me in the mood to look at 'Sleeping On A Wish'.\nI hope you enjoy this episode, as I talk about how this song came into being, demonstrating on the piano as I go along.\nHere we go, rolling !