worked out some stuff for ‘king forever’ today; re-tracked vocals, redid one guitar part, deleted another, and added two more. its much closer to where i want it now. it will have to pass the “go back and listen again another day” test but its getting there.

also did vocals for ‘beautiful’ and re-checked my ebow tracks. i’m actually playing it pretty close to how i want it — meaning the problem isn’t my ability with the slide or the ebow. the problem is that the tone of it is awful, which i’m not sure is a fixable problem outside of buying a new guitar or something. but i haven’t played around with redoing it yet and i do have some ideas so we’ll see what happens. anyway, the vocals came out pretty well and i toyed with some string sounds for the first time…not sure they really strike me but it’s cool that it’s there in some capacity. i could possibly hear some toward the end of the song someplace.

then all of a sudden i found myself writing again. i’ve got a few friends who have lost loved ones this week and one sent an email about it with thoughts which inspired me to take pen in hand. stared at that friggin legal pad for what felt like forever (probably something like an hour and a half plus in reality) and got most of it worked out. tune of the verses and nuances of the chorus and bridge aren’t worked out yet, but i don’t think it’s bad. still toying with first or second person on the chorus part…thinking 2nd, though. which would make the chorus this:

you are never really gone
when your time on earth is done
though it seems like life is over
it has really just begun
for death is not the end
and the sun will shine again
forever wrapped in light
until we meet again