The voices within want let out
Listen with your heart
(If you want to) hear what it’s about
Reach out to your inner voice
Exercise your reason of choice
The voices within are calling you, calling you
The voices within are whispering, whispering
The voices within are calling you, calling you
Let me out, let me out, let me out!
The voices within want let out
Join in with your part
Form a choir and start
I was driving by Ryan Dunn’s final stop… when this song came to me:
Who woulda thunk
I’d find my glory
Pushin’ up day’s ease?
Dandelions and daffodils
The only things footin’ my bills
Jesus, I’m pushing up daisies
The life I drunk
Is my story
While in heaven
The task I’m given
Is pushing up daisies
Nope. I can’t be lazy
Too late to be crazy
So, won’t ya please
Bring me a daisy
I’ll push it up for you
Sprouting life into view
May I bring you a dream scene
You might have thought me dead
Instead… let it be said:
I’m just laying about these trees
Praying for yor’ day’s ease
ABOUT THE SONG
I’m happy to say, I got to know Ryan Dunn. This song came to me through the spirit that remains. Now, that Spring has come to the place where is life came to an end… the burn and scar are healing. And, it’s a funny thing about spring… how life sprouts up. So, while I was attempting to identify with the spirit… a humorous point-of-view came through… about how he lives on and hopes to push up some daisies for us. Ya, know? Have a holiday on him… a Spring Break… a few days ease 🙂
Written and recorded in West Chester Borough and West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
Daniel — guitar, vocals, piano (with added whistling and tomfoolery by special request)
Blues variations.
E
E / G / E / A / E
E / B / G / A / E
LYRICS
Get on! Get on!
It’s time to get on with it
Come on. Get on.
Join the ride. Enjoy life a bit.
Come on and get a lift
Jump up and down like you’ll never quit
Roll down a hillside
Raise your arms like a roller coaster ride
Get on! Get on!
Lovin’ livin’ every minute
Come on. Get on.
Livin’ lovin’ every moment
ABOUT THE SONG
A 6-track recording (stereo guitar, stereo vocals and 2 mono vocal backing vocals)
Written and recorded in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It was a beautiful sunny day bringing in Spring. I hoped to convey the message.
The concept of freedom
Is hard to grasp
If you’re not free
(And, never have been)
It stands to reason
Hitting home at last
… once through the gate
Pouring from every pore
(For evermore)
You’re free
(Happy to be)
Wealthy in liberty
(Free!)
You’re able to be
Having been a victory virgin
Never before across the finish line
The feeling sinks in
“Freedom is mine!”
I have to tell ya
The taste is sweet
… like no other treat
A desert from the dessert
I’m not talkin’ ’bout democracy
Rather the absence of hypocrisy
From see to smiling see
ABOUT THE SONG
The song was written and recorded on Independence Mall, Philadelphia and West Chester, Pennsylvania. The words came about due to the fact that I was sitting on top of their bones looking for inspiration. Oh, yeah… and, it has to do with The Book Of Daniel “Many of those whose bodies are dead and buried will rise up….” Zombies, dude… for real.
1. Wowwwww… the wind blew hard
When I started thinking of you
Though, there your are
Only yards away
2. The chill you sent up my spine
Must not have been you at all
As it was divine
And, you know my position on the divinity of humanity
[Repeat 1 and add:]
Just yards away
Backyards. Frontyards.
Sidewards sideyards
Just yards away
But ya know the feeling,
Will I ever be close to you?
ABOUT THIS SONG
Sometimes you think you want to be close to someone, but then you think, “Do I really want that person to be close to me?” Then, I think to myself… perhaps it is best to start by being close to God. Then, you don’t have to worry about the other person’s imperfections getting on your nerves? 🙂
Capo 6 (Bb) and play the chords as if:
Intro D A Em
G D A Em
Em A
Em G A Em
G D A Em
“I am a stranger”
Stranger, I am
Stranger than you
An Alien?
“I come in peace”
A piece I am
More than a pwan
Are you?
“Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.”
This note in my pocket
Is to notify you
There is no intelligent life on Earth —
the third planet from the sun.
We’ll guarantee your eternity
While mine is in jeopardy
ABOUT THIS SONG
The song was written on February 20, 2012 — the anniversary of the John Glenn’s space flight of 1962.
“I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.”
— Note carried by John Glenn (the first man to orbit Earth. It was translated into several languages in case he splashed down in the remote South Pacific seas.
I went to the City of Brotherly Love,
And, asked ’em,
“How do you spell love?”
They replied,
L. Ooooo V E,
With a lopsided Oh.
I went to God Almighty Above,
And, asked her,
“If you were to conjure up a spell,
well… what would it be?”
She replied with an angel’s sigh,
“The spell is love.”
Please sing it with me,
“Love spell,
L. Ooooo V. E.,
With a lopsided Oh.”
Beats the devil outta hell,
L.O.V.E. spell
All yell,
“Love spell,
L. Ooooo V. E.,
With a lopsided Oh.”
The Love Park Sculpture in Center City, Philadelphia, PA
ABOUT THE SONG
Capo 3
G / D / A (3 times)
G / D / E
E / A
The song was written and recorded at Love Park, Philadelphia; Ambler; and Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania. The sound was mixed at Guitar Center in Plymouth Meeting. The video was mixed at Starbucks on the corner of Broad and Pine Streets, Philly (where I found *Chocolate Star* Dennis painting and playing the Key-tar.) The video was uploaded and published while driving up Ridge Avenue (to an open jam in Roxborough). All on Sunday, February 19, 2012.
Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters on stage in Philadelphia November 2011
LYRICS
Dave,
Please save the day.
Hey!
Can you teach us to play?
Can you meet us half way?
Can you reach us… all the way?
“It comes from here.” (point to your heart)
It comes from hear. (point to your mind)
Ole school Grohl
Taping in the garage
Ole school Grohl
No music mirage
Ole school Grohl
Dave,
Please save the day.
Hey!
Will you help us today?
Will you lead the way…
Show us how to plaaaaaay.
How to play a show…
The spirit in music you know.
No fool fighters
Dave Grohl sighters
DAVE GROHL’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Accepting the award, Grohl said, “To me, this award means a lot because it shows the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do…It’s not about being perfect, it’s not about sounding absolutely correct, it’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].”
Later, Dave went on to say, “To me the biggest advantage of going analog is the restrictions that it implies, which gets you to perform in a way that you’re actually being a human being. We thought about heart and performance. And I would rather people not tune their vocals, I would rather people not grid their drums.”
