If only one of my songs survived after Im gone, I hope it is this one. It started out as a simple poem. Soon after writing it, I felt a melody play in my head, and the music pretty much wrote itself within an hour. This song is not about anyone in particular, but I like the fact it says a lot without saying much. Most of the words remain in tact from the original version, but I did change a couple lines over the years. After IMAGES OF YOU, what followed was NOW WHAT CAN I DO? This was a question I posed in nearly a quarter of my songs, and it became a bit tiresome. This song deserved better than that, so I re-wrote it a few years ago. And the other change took place within the first month after I wrote it. At the last verse, IMAGES I HAD, was followed with WERENT SO BAD. My father said this song was too good to use a throw away line like that, so I re-wrote it to flow better. This is one of two songs I turned in for a school project. (The other one was “IM SO LONELY” which was the first song I wrote.) I received an A+ (back when students were able to get those) and this song has kind of remained hidden ever since. I remember the teacher picking apart the lyrics, stating how mature and perfect the lyrics were pertaining to the story and so on. Not a bad ego boost for a 16 year old kid, but that also made it very intimidating to record this song. I did make a demo of it in a professional studio back in 1988, but I only had an hour to do it, and it just wasnt enough time to do justice to this song; so again, I shelved it, wishing to return to it when I thought I matured enough as a musician and as a person. In September, 2014, the time had come. I spent nearly 20 hours recording and engineering it myself, as well as performing all the instruments and vocals, and then finally, mixing it. The song deserved the best I could give it, so it was very personal for me in that aspect. And in many ways, this song will always be more than the sum of who I am, and it reflects my personality perfectly during times of sorrow. I was alone when I wrote it and when I recorded it. I wanted that theme to be present in the feel of the song as well. “Images” is about as honest as it gets, and I wasnt even trying to write a song at the time. This is song #65. IMAGES IMAGES I SEE OF YOU AND ME, EVERYTHING SO CLEAR, EVERYTHING SINCERE, AND I LOVE YOU. IMAGES OF YOU, WITHOUT US TWO. THE THINGS WE HAD SHARED, I THOUGHT YOU CARED. STILL I LOVE YOU. OH MY LOVE IS TRUE. ALL I WANT IS YOU. BUT NOW YOUVE GONE AWAY, MY IMAGES ARE THROUGH. (SOLO) IMAGES IVE HAD MADE ME SO SAD. MY IMAGES HAVE DIED AND I CRIED. Written by Wayde K. Brown & The Santairs Copyright 2014—All Rights Reserved Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 02:24:05 +0000
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