Close Your Eyes, II

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This is the second song I've written with the title Close Your Eyes, so it'll have to be Close Your Eyes II, I guess. I wrote it one night while playing around on the grand piano in the auditorium at Cushing in Ashburnham, Massachusetts late one night while teaching summer school there which Amy and I did for four years in the early '90s. The drum machine sounds pretty bad on this recording, so one of these days I may have to fix it. I like the bluesy quality, though, and the shift back and forth from I (major tonic) to i (minor tonic) chords.

I started another song at the same time which I have resurrected lately and may finish soon. I refer to it currently under the working title "Cushing calliope-sounding" but a better name will come along soon. It's sort of a dreamy psychedelic ballade with a calliope accompaniment. Something along the lines of Strawberry Fields, I suppose. I have gotten a little further with the lyrics now, so maybe I'll have a name one day soon. It's sort of the opposite of a lullaby -- something sung to someone just waking up in the morning. If you have any ideas, lay them on me.

Dave Harris, Herndon, VA June 29, 1998

Lyrics:

Close your eyes when your life is an unclimbed mountain. 
Close your eyes when it's starting to get you down.
'Cause the solace you'll find inside you 
will melt all the fear that petrifies you.

Close your eyes. 
When you feel yourself tumbling blindly,
close your eyes. 
Sometimes it's all you can do.

© 1995, Bargain Basement Tunes

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