Fastest song I ever wrote...
Hi Guys,
Apologies for the two back to back mailers. This new song surpised even me. It just popped out unanounced, so I thought I'd share it.
Some Days (River Does):
June has been truly beautiful. That golden evening light on everything green is an eye-feast I can never get enough of, and it inspired the fastest song I ever wrote (and recorded). It has kind of a plug-in format, so it needed no strategy for getting from one verse to another. So I actually wrote this in ONE afternoon, threw on a dress, threw on a camera, and it was DONE. As a terminal second guesser, that feels the most amazing about it!
Happy June!
Antje
Some Days (River Does)
Some days come soft like a waterfall
Some days hit like a wrecking ball
Some days fly you to the moon
Some days beat the crap out of you
And the river does what the river does
Yeah, the river will do what the river does
Some days are songs that you already wrote
Some days end on a high note
Some days are sharp, some days are flat
Some days are stolen and you’ll never give em back
And the river does what the river does
Yeah, the river will do what the river does
Some days swing like a resonant string
Some days flop, some days pop
Some days are perfectly in tune
While some days beat the crap out of you
And the river does what the river does
Yeah, the river will do what the river does
Some days you battle boogie monsters in your head
And all the demons from under your childhood bed
Think it’s an open bar where all monsters drinks for free
Some days love says “you’re the only one”
And that’s the best sounding words in the English tongue
Some days we laugh until we pee our pants
and nearly split in half in the aftermath and still…
The river does what the river does
Yeah, the river will do what the river does
And the river does what the river does
Yeah, the river will do what the river does
Some days the fields are mowed and the hay is stacked
Some days are Jenga towers on the verge of collapse
Some days are high art, some days are bargain bin junk
Some days are ten outta ten, some days are slam dunks
Some days you hold court in the center of the light
Some days you orbit in obscurity like a satellite
Some days the lines are open, some days you can’t get through
Some days are not about you
Some days refuse to end and some just vanish
Immune to the best laid plans, some days are dark horse candidates
The bottom of the barrel, the belle of the ball
This is a package deal, you gotta take them all
And the river does what the river does
Yeah, the river will do what the river does
And the river does what the river does
Yeah, the river will do what the river does
And some day you would give anything to get back those days…
But the river does what the river does…