Soap Jaw ("Over" version)

Soap Jaw

This tune was released by Van Morrison in 1967. Performed on my Yamaha PSR-SX900 arranger keyboard.

Can you "Name That Tune"? I have a website that contains my complete collection of tunes with their titles revealed at: https://www.harveytwyman.com

Name That Tune #430 by Van Morrison

FIREFLY  MAGIC

Video at https://youtu.be/pOL6a-dC6FI?si=Bf3kHPIWbqdZM8e2
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This is a song about depression and survival. 

When I wrote it I still had another 25 years of surviving it ahead of me. But I'd made a decision years before, when I was 14, that no matter how bad it got it would always get better, sooner or later. And it always did, at least for a while. And knowing that somehow made it just a little bit easier to smile.


[This is a new mix. Drums by John Bennetts have been added and everything else has been changed, at least a little.]

Verse 1:
It’s more than a song
But less than a dream
I know what I say
Is not what I mean
Pretending my words
Aren’t meant to deceive
I’m playing with doubt
I want to believe

I know that it’s hard
To explain why I’m here
I complain though I know
There is nothing to fear
But the fear and the doubt
That wind through my mind
Are inventions of mine
That help pass the time

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 2:
I’m more than a child
But less than a man
I know where I’ve been
But not who I am
I'll say that I'm strong
I'll tell you I’m free
But none of that's true
I just want it to be

Once I entered a room
I pulled down the shade
I turned out the lights
I wanted to fade
But I noticed the wall
Right there looking at me
Pretending to be blind
I really wanted to see

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 3:
It all seemed to happen
A while ago
At a time I was lost
I just didn’t know
That doubting was simply
A game that I had
It gave me a reason
For feeling this bad

There are times there are changes
My memory moves
Preaching the patterns
I’ve worn into grooves
Repeating mistakes
I made in my youth
Learning the lines
And calling them truth
I can’t help but change
Can't help but survive
I might drown in doubt
But I'll still be alive

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Easy to Smile

•See the Video•

Easy To Smile

Para ver el video  https://youtu.be/Mvu2hJX58Nk

Para escuchar la versión original  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/a-un-amigo-version-original-ver-texto

Para escuchar la versión instrumental  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/a-un-amigo-ver-texto

A UN AMIGO

Recuerdo octubre y aquella noche:
íbamos despacio y pensativos;
cuando el sol rayase el horizonte
tomaríamos rumbos distintos.

Eran ya varios los años
que compartíamos juntos
la tristeza en los fracasos
la alegría de los triunfos;
éramos ya como hermanos
sin secretos ni tapujos:
tus problemas eran de ambos
y los míos también tuyos.

Estribillo

Querido amigo Miguel
aunque tú no lo creas
eres la panacea
que cura mis heridas
de sonrisas fingidas
que veo en torno a mi ser.

Querido amigo Miguel
siempre estás a mi diestra
siendo llave maestra
de esa puerta que, a veces,
cierra tras sí mi suerte
y me hace desfallecer.

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Recuerdo octubre y una mañana:
adoptó color de despedida
como si nuestros ojos plasmaran,
en el paisaje, lo que sentían.

Se iba ya un gran amigo
de los que no te abandonan
a pesar de que el destino
muchas veces no perdona;
de aquellos con ese sino
que convierte a la persona
en escudo ante el peligro
que al acecho está en las sombras.

Estribillo

TO A FRIEND

I remember October and that night:
we were going slowly and thoughtfully;
when the sun reached the horizon
we would take different paths.

It had been several years
that we shared together
the sadness of failures
the joy of triumphs;
we were already like brothers
without secrets or cover-ups:
your problems were both of ours
and mine were also yours.

Chorus

Dear friend Miguel
even if you don't believe it
you are the panacea
that heals my wounds
of fake smiles
that I see around my being.

Dear friend Miguel
you are always at my right hand
being the master key
to that door that, sometimes,
closes my luck behind it
and makes me faint.

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I remember October and a morning:
it took on the color of farewell
as if our eyes captured,
in the landscape, what they felt.

A great friend was leaving
one of those who do not abandon you
even though fate
often does not forgive;
one of those with that fate
that turns a person
into a shield against the danger
that lurks in the shadows.

Chorus

A UN AMIGO (Feat. Manuel Palomino)

My second EP. This has a more singer/songwriter feel than the first. Hope you enjoy :)

Come Home

Happy b-day Abi.  His fave director is Stanely Kubrick. I asked him to rec me a film last year and he said “Happiness with Philip Seymour Hofman.” I thought it was creative and funny and sad. He has higher moral standards than me. Found his gf perverted.  I would have called it kinky. I was going to tell him to lower his standards but if someone said, “maybe you should cheat”to me I’d say “no” cos a)your gf is supposed to be one of your best friends and b)it’s disrespectful. If I treat one of my best friends with disrespect how can I treat my friends well?  So I think Abi should do Abi. Other than that Abi sent me a pic and I told him he looked a bit like Rami Malek. He wasn’t too fond of that but Rami Malek isn’t bad looking and Abi looks 16.

I thought the whole song was A Dorian but it’s actually A dorian b2 alternating with A dorian for the verses.  I came up with the riff and wanted to make it more complex so I used the same strumming technique for ‘Can’t Stop.’ First time I used hand clicks for a song and also first time I’ve kept an entire song all modal. Thought the vocal phrasing was quite ZZ Ward for the verse and I wanted to  make it more hard rock sounding like Soundgarden. So the verses sound quite ZZ Garden or Soundward (Squidward). The bass in the verses is playing a simplified version of the bass line in ‘Come Together.’ I do like the vocal phrasing for ‘yet in the mix I found joy’ for the chorus. First time I’m doing that much falsetto for lead which is inspired by QOTSA. Some counter melodies for the beginning of verse 2. Fave use of counter melody is probably the 2nd half of ‘Emotion Sickness’ from Silverchair. I added some congas and wanted the same rhythm as the percussion from ‘Roots Bloody Roots’ but I decided to keep things simple and accent the 2 vocal syllables.. Then, the last chorus I was going to copy paste my piano parts but accidentally copy pasted my lead guitar over and that improved the groove.

Lyrics: Written by SGOR. Some guy on reddit. Lost contact. If it sounds like it was written an angsty teen that’s cos’ it was written by an angsty teen. Terrific message about finding empathy. Not sure about how death fits into all this.  ‘There can be miracles when you believe’ is cheesy on paper but I don’t think it’s cheesy when you hear it. ‘If you squeeze my lizard I’ll put my snake on you’ is ridiculous on paper but badass when you hear it. Depends on vocal tone, phrasing, delivery, and melody.

Stranded on a desert planet, lost in my own curse,
As if I caused a cataclysm, but all I did was change.
I was Found in the mud, like a coin in ruin's dust,
Polished up, made to fake, like I hadn't seen the rust.
Hear a beating heart in the darkness,
I've been lost, I've been found, I've wandered so long,
I found myself in you, but in the end, it wasn't me I found.

Ride with me through the storms of life, (it was fly with me originally and I am not singing that)
Let our hopes shine bright,  (it was light shine bright originally)
Like we've been struck by lightning, 
Revealed 
As something in the night.
I came to life when loss became real,
Felt pain and sympathy,
Yet in that mix, I found joy, found a way to be.
Am I cursed? I'll never know, but I'll embrace it all,
Life is its own limit, 
perfection in its sprawl.
The final goodbye, the chill of death, it comes for us all,

Running through the lost ruins of an apocalypse. (I wanted to give some more sensory elements to a song that was very much ‘in its feelings. So I matched the idea of a cataclysm. Took about 10 secs to type out)
Found myself with spears and arrows and feeling generous
Smeared my face in mud, like an Indian warchief
I’ve been dead, I’ve come to life, I’ve wandered so long
I found myself in you, but in the end it wasn’t me that I found



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