December: I Resolve

It's New Year's Eve day, just about New Year's Eve. Yesterday I started writing some stuff down, the theme needing to be something about old and new, yesterday and tomorrow, you get it, the whole new year's theme. I've previously written two New Year's songs, but this one seemed to need to get written on the same theme.

Words, words, words. Started writing but yesterday didn't like it. Today, kept writing, and started to like what I was writing. Started putting some rhyming bits together. Was listening to a song by Citizen Jane called "Good Fight". Hmmm, there's something in this song that might work, but not exactly, for the mood I'm trying to capture. I like what she does with her voice though.

As of this writing, I don't have the melody, the instrument, or the feel, though I'm noodling around with some ideas. Usually all it takes is one solid phrase or two and I can work from there. Tonight, New Year's Eve, will be the time for figuring and noodling and finally finding the song.

January 3
This song has taken a while to find. Slowly, a few phrases came, then a few more. It's virtually there, but now's the time to sing the song over and over, to make sure all the lyrics work, to make sure the melodic phrases fit together and aren't repetitive and boring. This will take a few days, and then I can pronounce it done, write out the chart, and prepare for the final five songs in my "One Hundred Songs" project. I must admit, this one was rather torturous, but I just had to work a little longer and little harder for this one to happen.

I Resolve

Another new year is waiting, it's stories not yet told
Weeks and months of living are waiting to unfold
Storms'll come rough and tumble, then passing on their way
Then the sun'll come shining through in the newest of new days.

And I resolve on this day
To be a little kinder, stronger and wiser
To always take a chance, in this crazy dance
Of life.

Memories rewinding, playing scene by scene
Bringing me to this moment, and I know where I've been
Happy and sad, the good and bad, and all the stories told
Wisdom always helps me turn those memories to gold.

And I resolve on this day
To be a little kinder, stronger and wiser
To always take a chance, in this crazy dance
Of life.

What lies on the horizon is waiting to be seen
Infinite mind creating ever new reality
Time will always take me, leading day by day
Everything will keep on changing, as I walk on the way.

And I resolve on this day
To be a little kinder, stronger and wiser
To always take a chance, in this crazy dance
Of life.

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