five years of tides is a variation on something from the odyssey in which five years seemed to go by in the passing of one day. and all that remained of those five years was buried under five years of sand building up from the incoming tides.

I just saw this here (50/90 here) - https://help.fawm.org/community/off-season/

Thank you for commenting on my song "The Animal Within", I really Appreciate it!

I just watched NUREMBERG yesterday, and so I was in a WW2-themed song mood anyway...especially what with living in the Good 'Ol USA. Interesting collaborative process on this one, guys. Loved it! ❤️

[pic] @billwhite51 just now when i was 10 years old, i saw the movie judgement at nuremberg and some catholic kids on the playground at school told me i was going to hell because the church had condemned the movie on the grounds that it mentioned the unmentionable..sterilization of the female. when danny sent me his initial lyric for collaboration, it had no mention or reference to germany. i thought it referred to modern day protest marches, so was surprised at what the son finally turned out to be about. it is much better, and makes sense, in the final version, although i would have written my part much different had i known it was directed at the hitler rallies. but the fact that i make no allusion to 1939 germany actually makes the song less didactic that it may otherwise have been.

with the deterioration of the voice, we have to find new ways to use it. joan baez is a perfect example of this. she cant just open up and cut loose any more. she has to think about every note she hits. and so do i. so in a way it can lead to better singing. regarding my song, i hear a lot of AI vocals in fawm this year, and when it happens, i dont want to hear it.

HI, Jerry, Glad to see you back here. Thanks for your kind comments on "I Know A LIttle Bit." That brought me here to your page where I see I have some exploring to do.

best vocal ever? i hardly have any voice left. check out me in my heyday...

i did a chapbook of poetry, but i ended up rewriting most of the poems into songs. never wrote a book of lyrics but had a couple published in a literary journal. i have been encouraged to put a book of lyrics together, but i dont think they read that well without the music. in the same way that a poem has to be rewritten to work as a song, a song would have to be rewritten to work as a poem.

thank you for your comment on strays, but i didnt lift that phrase. i invented it. but i googled it just to make sure it hadnt pre-existed and could not find it occurring anywhere. all i found was this, and i had not read it previous to writing the song. Stray animals, particularly dogs and cats, are a prevalent, challenging aspect of rural life, often stemming from abandonment,, inadaquate pet management, or simply losing their way. These animals face harsh conditions, including high mortality rates, lack of food, and, in some cases, the need to form packs to survive in the countryside. . im glad you liked the song, but it is not about stray dogs and cats, but about poets, a vanishing breed.

Hi Jerry! Good to see you again. Thanks for the comment.

thank you for you whale comments. the toenail on a face line was inspired by a bit of lit crit that i was reading in which the author posited that a poem doesnt have to mean anything, the words just have to be in the correct place. so i thought of the examples of words being in the wrong place like the toenail on a face as well as inverting the lines from the poem home is the sailor home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill. ..thinking that one does not need to know what the poet is getting at when he writes home is the hunter home from the hill butt hat the words are in the correct places, whereas a hunter being home from the sea...well obviously sea is the wrong word.

Happy FAWM, Jerry!! Looking forward to hearing your music :) Thanks for the warm welcome.

Hey Jerry - wondering if you’ve tried Celemony’s new “Tonalic” product. Here’s to a fun FAWM!

🍻𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀! 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆. 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗙𝗔𝗪𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗴!

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