Seed - (Lyrics - First Draft)

OK, so this is an odd moment where I managed to fire out a first complete draft of the lyrics so early in the process. Normally this comes only after I have a working demo of the complete song to work with, but I think the concept helped me form this, and once the images were in place this fell together fairly quickly. There are still some clunkers in here - the use of the word 'quest' for example just seems out of place, despite the imagery - but it has a beat and scheme of its own. 

One problem is that vocally (and you have to trust me on this one because this is still in my head at the moment) the chorus is in the same vocal space as the verse, so look for a demo tonight where the chorus.

A landscape of giants

Your reach seeks the distance

Your eyes burn with twilight

But you're still a little boy

You wrestle with dragons

You burn with impatience

So small but you hold

The secrets of gold

In the caverns of your soul

OK, so I love this imagery. My son is into everything fantastic - super heroes, dragons, monsters - he gets it from his father. I love how the imagery comes together on this. 

I'm not completely sold on the rhyme scheme, but we'll see how it turns out when I put it together with the rifts. I like the move away from the typical AABB rhyme scheme.

You're the seed of the sky

Made from the atoms of the stars

How beautiful you are

How powerful you are

I've already talked about this in the last post, so I won't go into it again today.

You leap without seeing

Fall without fearing

Land without slowing

And we all hold our breath

Will you stand without trying

Lift your eyes without crying

Find the horizon

As you face your tests

Ride forward on your quest

Like I said, I'm not sold on the last line here, or the entire second half of this verse, to be honest. The first half, though, is a fairly true what I'm trying to express. I'll reevaluate that second half of the verse.

OK, so I'm going to reevaluate the rifts I wrote and see where it goes from there. If my kids get to bed on time, I expect to get a new rift track done by tonight and get this one rolling as well.