Where The Days All Went
Episode #69: Where The Days All Went\xa0 \xa0(Song starts at 5.50)\n\nHi and welcome to another episode. As usual,\xa0we are travelling back in time to the day I wrote this one - song #446. If you're thinking \u2018that's a while ago\u2019! That's what I'm thinking too. But the strange thing is, it doesn't feel so long ago, to me...\nAnd now I'm thinking \u2018where did all those days go?\u2019 It's been years since I moved to Melbourne from New Zealand. I miss walking beside the rivers in NZ.\xa0\nIt was a beautiful calm winters day, the day I recorded this episode here in Melbourne. You can hear 'my' magpies in our backyard...you'll also get to hear a few moments of a New Zealand Tui (bird) call and the sound of one of my favourite rivers, courtesy of my co-songwriting mate, Paul Dredge - who just happens to play guitars and bass on today\u2019s song. He sent me the recording via his phone. cool, eh?\nYou\u2019ll also get to hear about me racing out to get the bins out to the rubbish truck in time - on a cold winters early morning..ha.\nBack in 1998, I remember the inspiration was \u201cwhat the...where do all those days get to? I'm a little bit older, and I feel like I'm just getting started ..."\nIn many ways, in 2021, I feel exactly the same.. Here I am, 69 episodes in, on a relatively new podcast. I\u2019m\xa0about to produce a bunch of e-books and video courses\u2026and this is something that I've wanted to do for years.\xa0\nI\u2019ll be sharing what I\u2019ve learned along the way - creative processes : How to paint, how to write a song, how to draw cartoons, etc... Really looking forward to getting these products online, ready for people to download.\xa0\nI've spent all this time learning, developing a style, in a few different arts. I've been teaching one on one lessons for years. I want to share the teaching to more people - why wouldn't you...so, yep, I'm just getting started here.\xa0\nAlso, I have more albums on the way and there\u2019s lots of sheet music to produce, too. So I'm going to busy for some time yet!\xa0\nIn the 1990s, I was gigging and writing songs. That was about it - oh, and fishing and playing some cricket. So I wrote plenty of songs - and I'm glad I did.\nIn these episodes on this podcast, There's a big emphasis on 'nature healing us\u2019 in my songs. It's big part of who I am. I didn't realise there was so much of that aspect in my songs. I'm glad there is.\xa0\nThe lyrics are one of 3 sets of lyrics I wrote on my birthday (happening social life back then, obviously...). So the first line is\xa0\xa0"with every song I'm older...." So that obviously came from it being my birthday.\xa0\xa0And away we go.\xa0\nThere's a line in the song ' the world begs no difference to how we may remember' ...how nature helps to find our place in the scheme of things\u2026there are so many people and it\u2019s a big world.\nIt's a great feeling to write lyrics. It's also great fun to read back through them, without singing or playing music. It allows me to focus on the deeper meaning in the sentences.\xa0\nI'm really enjoying just playing, having fun as I talk and I'm finding this is really taking me places I might not otherwise get to, in terms of understanding some of my \u2018trick\u2019s I use as a songwriter..and consequently, Im sharing them in the moment I'm discovering them . Which is really interesting to me.\xa0\nJoin me this week as I experiment, turning a rock song into a piano vocal version...and I compose some new parts as I ...play ..rewriting. It's always an option as a songwriter.\xa0\nThere's a balance between being open to changes and hanging on to that which you believe to be right the way it is already. Ultimately, it's about what's right for the Song. (and sometimes more than one arrangement is the right call)\nEnjoy a relaxed 30 mins of chat and step in the shoes of a songwriter. Hope you enjoy the music , too.\xa0\nYou can read the lyrics in this week\u2019s blog post at www.petepascoe.wordpress.com - plus there\u2019s lots more music and art there too.