Red Watcher - As Long As They Choose (Shadow)

from SpinTunes #13 - Round 2 by Spintunes

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about

Composed from midnight to 4 AM, on a Sunday early morning. For ST13R2, as a shadow. Why? Choose whatever excuse. As long as you choose.

Really, I wasn't sure I wanted to write a bio. I'm feeling slightly sulky.

Very well. Why this style of piano playing? When I think about advising my 15-year-old self, I remember my father teaching me how to play the piano at that age. He called the rhythmic pattern "bossa nova", but the truth is, I think we both didn't know very much about playing or composing music.

And that's how I still feel... I still don't think I learned very much, just the same basic play and same basic styles. Kind of disappointing. There isn't much I can advise my younger self.

But I keep writing songs, despite how they are picked apart. In the end of it all, it's whatever people want to hear from them. Whatever they choose, whatever makes them happy.

lyrics

[Verse 1]
Let’s keep it real
Somehow I feel
I am
Still just a child
Riding a wilder wheel

A youth full of dreams
The truth at the seams
Streams through
But it’s up to you
To muse what the music means

[Chorus]
Keep writing songs
They don't belong to you
Say what you saw
I know that it’s hard for you
They’ll hear it all
And choose what they want from you
As long as they choose

[Verse 2]
It’s hard looking back
To all that I had
Stay still
I know that you will
But I wish I could change all that

Take what you need
Make it a seed
Feed well
And someday they’ll tell
your words to your younger breeds

credits

from SpinTunes #13 - Round 2, released July 17, 2017
Composer: Ted Kiper

Works Cited: Pink Floyd's "High Hopes", from The Division Bell; Governing Dynamics' "Dark Places", from ST5R3.

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