necessary growth

The Sky

Grand glowing protector
Of our good home
Cured colours of happiness
That your eyes hone
White light Rayleigh scattered
To cerulean blue
The sky that we love
Rods and cones paint for you

The Sky

One star in our day
From particulate reflections
Go 60 miles up
Day time galaxy beckons
Here, were less dense
So sky's glow disappears
Oh so thin atmos skin
'Must protect our air dears

The Sky

Why red at sunset?
Same shift at rise...
That's all the blue gone
So red meets our eyes
Other side of the spectrum
Through particles more
Not refraction but scattering
Of white light solar

The Sky

For your eyes

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Tuning 440Hz
Tempo 108 BPM
Capo 7
Key E minor (Dominant B7)
Subject: Picked by Alma

Instrumentation
-Vox and Ovation Acoustic Guitar Live
-Ovation Acoustic Lead
-Epiphone Electric Lead
-Epiphone Electric Picked
-Backing vocal runs x 3
-Glass Sky ambient pad played on keys
-Piano played on keys and mirrored with harp
-5 String Ibanez bass
-Hit Hat and ride line played on keys (neo soul kit)
-Congas played on keys
-Timbales played on keys
-Cello section played on keys
-Chimes played on keys
-Cajon played on keys 1 bass run and 1 snare run
-Wind section of bassoon, clarinet, native flute, Celtic tin whistle played on keys
-Epiphone Electric thumbed rhythm
-Lost Reverse pad through full reverse effect pedal played on keys
-Mastered using bx_mastering - London Smooth -1dB

To do
-Consider a choral section with some falsetto rooted in the cello and to add.cresendo and variance to the outro

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The pic is Alma (4) chasing two crows who were on the grass before she went flying with them. We were on our way to collect her older siblings from school.

It was strange making this. Anytime I'm singing to my kids in my head it just makes it so much more important and I guess is reflected in the emotion. They are going to face so much bullshit in this world I think it's important to show them how to love and be passionate about what's real and the simple things. I guess they have a shot at loving the world and themselves if they appreciate the simplicity of where we are instead of getting lost in the fud...

I guess in a big way I have my Grandad's poems to thank for helping that approach. He'd look at a tree or a season and make it the most important thing in the universe with the way he wrote about it. I'm trying hard to do that with the songs. Everything can be loved and appreciated for what it is and I guess we don't need a creed then, we just believe and love our reality for the poetry it is.

Always ask questions. One of my earliest memories is asking my Mum from a pram "How many blades of grass in that field?" I was pretty bummed when I got an "I don't know! 😆 It was unlikely the first question my unfortunate Mum had endured on that walk...

The answer is quite random but it averages out at 200,000 blades per m2, field was about 80m x 80 so 1.2 billion blades of grass (there's a factory in that field now so eh todays the answer is  0️⃣) blades....

Humans suck at quantifying things we don't directly experience and the biggest one of those is the indirect ways we experience the climate emergency.
Here's to kids asking questions ❓

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