waiting

The back story here is kind of cool.

I've been playing the two chords for this song (yes, a whopping 2 chords make up this song) for years as a sound check (hence the creative working title of the song: Soundcheck). I'd make up lyrics and mumble through it and basically play it until I had fine-tuned my equipment.

But one night, a few years back, I was camping with my wife in Acadia National Park, plucking away as usual, when I found myself strumming those two not-so-distinct chords and singing along ...

"whisk me over the mountain, fly me to the sea" . . .

I really liked it. So I kept massaging the same riff and in about 10 minutes, I found myself back at the car scribbling furiously. And so, the new Soundcheck, which we still often use as a sound check, was birthed. Right there, in the car in Acadia, when I should have been enjoying my beautiful camping partner's company. The only line that would change was the last in the verse...

"there's a mama knitting in every home, thoughts of being on her own"...

which was written thinking of a dear friend.

And as it happened, the song was written just over Cadillac Mountain and right next to the sea.

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