Ode to a Purple Wallflower

by @wrenarcher

Ode to a Purple Wallflower
wrenarcher
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Liner Notes

I stumbled on this progression after changing my strings and lowering the action on my guitar. Doing that made hammer-ons much easier. The progression is deceptively rather hard for me though, despite just being a I ii iii barre progression. Shout out to my delay pedal for keeping me in time even during the long sustains/rests.

So on the first day of fawm I recorded it and quickly had an idea for what I wanted to do with a drum track. But because I'm a failure with a midi controller and/or drum machine I came up with a Plan B... beatboxing. Yuh. Me. #Beatboxing.

After recording, I started singing along some gibberish and then slowly words formed. Inspiration for lyrics came from a friend of mine and a picture she took of a lone purple coneflower in a sea of yellow ones. She is very much like that purple flower... sort of a wallflower. She doesn't like to stand out but she just shines despite her reluctance.

Photo credit: my friend The Wallflower

#GirlWithGuitar #Acoustic #IndieRap

Lyrics

All I see in front of me is sea of yellow petals dancing with wind oh and the song of a little bird begins

shapes in the clouds. and my mind surrounds these good memories like these sweet honey suckle dew drops fall and go under to quench the earth

there in the distance much to its instance one, lone... wallflower bright purple, adorable standing on her own like a unicorn amongst a herd of yellow flowers she stands out

and seeing her i feel alive vivid color oh so bright not even trying but she's lightin' up my whole day and

i feel alive i feel alive i feel alive

Comments

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You've got a beautiful soft vocal delivery and guitar accompaniment. The music is almost jazzy at times, very nice color! I love that you were laughing in the middle, that really imparted joy into the listening experience 😀

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Hey Sarah. Thank you so much for listening and the kind words. I really appreciate it. ☺️

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This has a stream of consciousness feel to it, like you were in the meadow with your purple flower and your musical notebook, just vibing with it all- this was especially accentuated with your little chuckle and the chicka-chicka rythm in the background. Nice mood and it made me feel I could really connect with the moment and with you as an artist

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Hey! Thanks for listening. And you know?... it was kind of a stream of consciousness. The friend of mine who I mentioned in the liner notes shares pics from flowers in her garden and from walks in a park. So I tried to imagine what I might be thinking and seeing if I had been there looking at the scene.

Thanks for the kind words and again... for listening. Also... welcome to fawm! and to Houston.

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OK this really feels like a happy accident that you had to re-re-re-record this and ended this close-up and intimate, because it suits the song so well, like it’s being sung to someone sitting right there on the couch next to you. Love the beatboxing, love the odd chord progression, I love the whole song Wren, and I think your friend would too 😉

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Thanks Caroline. Your comments always make me feel so much better about the intrusive self-conscious thoughts. Thank you my dear, dear friend.

Also... that other friend? She liked it too. 😊

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That's really a nice guitar pattern you have going on here. And the lyrics and vocal delivery are so warm and lovely it feels like summer (and that's not just because it got above freezing here today for the first time in weeks!).

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The beatboxing works perfectly, actually! This is such a sweet song - really lovely work, friend!

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Very intimate with the close miking, it made me feel a bit uncomfortable in a good ASMR way. I like the beatboxing, I was expecting bombastic hiphop thing but it fit the song well.

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Ugh. I was hoping it wouldn't come across in an ASMR way. It's just... it's so hard for me to record in my house so I woke up early this morning to take another stab at the vocals. But because I was nervous about waking people and rather self conscious about being heard, I pulled a little closer to the mic.

Thank you for the kind words though, Davey. I do appreciate it.

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I love the lyrics and the happy carefree delivery. I FEEL ALIVE! I love flowers so much. This song is what I needed on the cold dark February day in Michigan! Good job.

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Hey Travis... erm. Sorry. Disarming. Thanks for listening. My friend who inspired this with her photo is much like you in that she LOVES flowers and they bring her a lot of joy during those cold, dark months of the winter where she lives in the Midwest.

Thanks for the kind words.

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I get the idea with the beatboxing, I just wanted to say the laughter is a really appealing detail!

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Hi Nina. Thank you for listening. Yeah. The beatboxing... oh my gahhh. Clearly that is a skill I don't have but it was the next best thing I could think of over my disaster attempts of using my midi controller on an 808 drum machine app.

The laughter. My bestie makes me laugh... SO much. I wanted to somewhat convey that as I thought of her. At least I didn't cackle like I do when we're on the phone.

Thanks again.

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I really like the guitar accompaniment with beatboxing, it's a great idea. The guitar sounds really nice, great performance!

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Thanks so much for the kind words and for listening. Since adjusting the action on my guitar, my playing has gotten a little better. The guitar feels a little more familiar. Thanks again.

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