The Album Project, Episode Five

Something you will not believe has happened. It has not been seen before and likely will not be seen again.

2 songs took shape this evening, in a little under 3 hours. Yes, that is productivity at its finest.

Song 1 is one that I am REALLY excited about. Its story is this:
A friend of mine (who will remain unnamed but you all who know who he is) has been lovingly nicknamed the "baby" (this being baby as in infant and not baby as in a pet name for a romantic interest) by two of my (also unnamed) roommates. This is a long story, and not relevant to the current story, so I will omit it. But as a joke one night when discussing songs, our "baby" friend suggested that I write a song about him in the form of a lullabye. I wasn't exactly ready to write about my actually-not-an-infant friend in terms that illustrated him as-an-actual infant, but I didn't hate the idea of writing a lullabye. So I went with it.

What it has turned to is more than I expected when I first sat down to attempt it. The lullabye is a lullabye in style towards the beginning and discusses sleep, but eventually it intensifies as the song goes on and towards the end you realize that the singer is likely singing this lullabye to a lover who has died. And even more so than that, the singer may or may not have killed said lover, and it may or may not have been an accident or on purpose.

WHOA. Yes. I went there. It's a haunting tune and I think it has a lot of dimensions and depth and I'm excited to see what people think about it. It's definitely different.

Song numero dos is the Peru Song I thought would likely materialize from Peruvian experiences. This song needs some slight revising but I think it paints a beautiful picture of our last evening in Peru and the culmination of what we were able to do throughout the week and what we were able to see the Lord working, so I'm excited to present this to people as well.

Things are coming along quite nicely! This is exciting.

KT