Flyin' Man

Happy Sunday friends!

Time flies, doesn’t it? Can’t believe how much has passed since the posting of Freebird Unfixed, the story of my first ever music production — the attempted coincidence of two epic songs: Free Bird and Fix You.

Something truly wild happened the day I published it. Later that evening, an entire freaking album’s worth of new song convergences popped into my head, in one spontaneous download. Every instrument, every lyric, every vocal, all the various interwoven patterns and the exact way they fit together… like being lightning struck between the ears by a full catalogue of music. Have never experienced anything like it.

So since then I’ve been working — feverishly in spare moments — to transcribe them all with this custom super high-end sound studio*, graciously provided by my 14-year-old daughter L via her Taylor Swift laptop with demo recording software. It’s slow, arduous work, especially for a total music production nub.¹

*Music studio/Swiftie shrine

I’m proud to share the first song to have fully landed… FLYIN’ MAN. A unique integration of Learning to Fly by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Little Lion Man by Mumford and Sons. The arrangement is an ode to the complicated, archetypal, paradoxical relationship between mothers and sons.

Sound quality is leaps and bounds improved since Freebird Unfixed, and most importantly, it brings L’s voice to the forefront where it belongs. Everything else is laid down and conscientiously recorded instrument by instrument, track by track, by yours truly. :)

More updates to Coincidence Speaks coming soon!

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I would like to dedicate this song to

<Mary L. Tabor>

, whose soul bearing piece Lifeboat I read in the midst of its creation. The emotions her written and spoken voice invoked from within me are imbued in this song and its lyrical interplay.

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Flyin’ Man

Lyrics:

Weep for yourself lion man you’ll never be what is in your heart

Weep little lion man you’re not as brave as you were at the start

Started out

Rate yourself and rake yourself take all the courage you have left

Down a dusty road

Started out

And waste it all on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head

All alone

But it was not your fault but mine

I’m learning to fly

And it was your heart on the line

But I ain’t got wings

I really messed it up this time

Coming down

Didn’t I my dear

Is the hardest thing

Well the good old days May not return

Rocks might melt And the sea may burn

Yeah now I’m learning to fly

But it was not your fault but mine

But I ain’t got wings

And it was your heart on the line

Coming down

I really messed it up this time

Is the hardest thing

Didn’t I my dear

Some say life

Tremble lion man

Will beat you down

Beat you down

Break your heart

Break your heart

Steal your crown

So I started out

Your grace is laced within your face your boldness stands alone among the wreck

For God knows where

I guess I’ll know

Now learn from your mother or you’ll spend your days biting your own neck

When I get there

Yeah now I’m learning to fly

But it was not your fault but mine

Around the clouds

And it was your heart on the line

What goes up

I really messed it up this time

Must come down

Didn’t I my dear

Learning to fly

But it was not your fault but mine

But I ain’t got wings

And it was your heart on the line

Coming down

I really messed it up this time

Didn’t I my dear

Is the hardest thing

1. Nub: L’s word for noob/newbie.