Hello Three Minus One Friends! I've spent all morning trying to figure out how to send two songs as a Mother's Day gift for you all. My story, "Valentine" is in our book, but what I really do is write and sing songs. I thought you might find comfort in two that I wrote about Forrest. I've debated sending them long and hard and finally decided you were the people I'd want to hear these more than anyone. I hope they give comfort. The first is "Parachute" which I wrote shortly after Forrest died in 2002; the second is "If There's a Way" that I just finished. It's been 13 years for me. The second song is basically a list of things I did to find my way. I hope it helps. Have a peaceful Mother's Day. 

Parachute

Singer Songwriter (piano and guitar)whose music sounds like "something you've known all your life."

Journey

If There's a Way

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If There's A Way

Sly Stone's perfect song, and one of the truest lyrics I know: "We've got to live together". Because we do, let's do it well and right; consciously and fairly. Start in your own life.

Everyday People

LOVE this track with and without vocals. This is Dave Hansen's String arrangement. Stunning.

Heaven - Instrumental

Chris Ranney plays piano and arranged the strings for this version. Gorgeous.

More - Chris Ranney Arrangement

An important piece for me. Take a listen. Bar: Piano, voice, keys, and lyrics, recorded at home. Mixed and mastered by Rave Tesar.

The Current

"Birds in Flight" is a piano instrumental I wrote in the '90s but which I just got around to recording this summer (2023). It's also the soundtrack to a video I produced called Bird Song that featured photographs of birds taken by Bill Gillette and by me. The message being to slow down, look closely, take care of them, yourself, us, the planet. When I did the video, it helped me manage the craziness going on around us right now in this world.

Birds in Flight

Birds In Flight

When I started writing the lyrics for this song, I thought I was writing to the Earth, apologizing for the neglect we humans have subjected her to, but as I wrote, I kept singing the name Evelyne over and over again. So I asked myself, what if Earth is singing to us, and what if she calls us Evelyne?

EVELYNE

When you and I began I was still in bloom
But your longing grew and wandered off with you

Evelyne, come back to me 
When the winter moon fades away and turns to morning dew
My ingenue, I’ll still be here for you

Evelyne, come back for me
Let’s start again
Don’t let our story end

Remember me when I was whole
When all your dreams were mine to hold for you, Evelyne

You and I were always meant to be
Can’t you see?
Your home is here with me

Evelyne, come back to me and live
Evelyne, Evelyne


Earth Day, 2024

Bar: Vocals, Piano
Dave Eggar: Cellos
Ashton Brown: Mix & Mastering Engineer

©2024 Bar Scott

Evelyne

“Fly” is a song with a story. I wrote the piano part years ago, but I was stuck. Just didn’t know what to do with it. So I asked Tony Levin 3000 miles away if he'd record a bass part for the song, hoping whatever he did would inspire me to finish it. He did, and of course I loved it, but I still didn’t know what to do with it. I had a melody and a title, but no idea what I wanted to say with the lyrics. Two years went by. Frustrated and impatient, I asked my friend John Alan to take my piano and Tony's bass and use our tracks to write his own song. It was as an experiment I’d always wanted to try, and here was the opportunity. How would John’s song, and the song I would eventually write, turn out with both of us using the very same backing tracks? Would they be entirely different (yes) and would John’s song inspire me to get mine done? (yes). John wrote and recorded his song in a few weeks. As soon as I heard his, mine started coming to life. It took me another few months, but it’s finally done. I’m grateful for Tony Levin (bass) and Robby Berman (keyboards, mix, and mastering engineer), and especially, for John Alan. If you’re curious, you can hear his version of “Fly” wherever you listen to music.

Fly

I don’t love you like I’d love to love you
And I don’t know what love is
But I know why I love you
And I don’t know why I don’t know how to fly

I’d love to fly away
I wonder why I never fly with you
When there’s such a view

You don’t love me like I know you want to love me
And I don’t know why you love me
When I don’t always love to love me
But when I find a way to fly

I wonder why I never fly with you   
I wonder why we never fly away 
When there’s such a view way up here in the blue

How can I?
You and I?

How can I? How can you? How will we fly?
How do you? How will I? When can we fly?

Way up here it’s so quiet and so far away



This is a version of "Heaven" re-recorded with strings for possible inclusion in a movie. We'll see! Arrangement by Dave Hanson.

Heaven - Dave Hansen Strings 2015

I sent Paul Opalach the same vocal tracks I used on my version of "I'm in Love" (Journey album, 2014) to do a version with just bass, his main instrument. This is what he sent back. Smokin'!!! I am laughin' happy! 

Bar Scott's "I'm in Love" produced by Paul Opalach Wow!

I'm in Love

I'm In Love Mix  - Memphis Style

This is a quirky track, more typical of my early songs. My friend Kirsti Gholson uses the word HappySad to describe songs like this one. I like that. The lyrics touch on the flaws and qualities we all share, while hearing about it from an aging songwriter who's still dreaming; still thinking about previous successes. I hope you can relate. 

One of My Songs

One Of My Songs

I love this track. I wrote the melody inspired by a friend who said "Just sing" because I was in a lull. Years later and after humming the melody for years, the lyrics appeared. It's quieting, I hope. Thoughtful if you need respite from the day. 

What If

What If 16 - 44.1

We all know "The Star-Spangled Banner" and have our own relationship with it depending on where we heard or sang it first, and all the ways we've heard it since. When the pianist Jay Hogan asked me to sing his new arrangement, I said yes, but also told him I wasn't the song's biggest fan. It's a hard one to sing, first of all, but it also puts bombs and rockets at the center of our national identity. My preference would have been to put our beauty, our generosity, and our big hearts in that space instead. But as I learned the song -- researched its history, read additional verses, and did the homework that goes into recording a song -- I came to respect it. Singing it this way has opened my eyes to its power

The Star Spangled Banner

Hello world! I've been making music for a long time and have loved almost every moment of it. Would love to hear from you if my music speaks your language. Thank you for listening.

Bar Scott

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