I’m getting ready to send this demo off to the publisher man, but thought I’d give you a chance to listen to it again, since you had such fabulous feedback a few months ago:
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Love the song….
Could I get the words? Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t understand everything …..
And the beginning of the second verse (between 1:00 and 1:07) seemed like it had a mistime in the beat… or something …. not a musician, but that’s what it sounded like to me…. sorry if it was supposed to be like that lolol
And I DO need to let go of some stuff…. I do need to surrender…. it’s hard as heck for me right now…..May camp out on this song for a while…
Thanks for the feedback, Bajan!
I’ll try to do some remixing tomorrow to clean up the vocals – make them more prominent, and listen for that mistime…
And lyrics:
No eternal tone
will sing my soul
without the ietting go.
No joy in the pain
by faith sustained
without the letting go.
I will seek
this mystery
of letting go.
the letting go.
no forsaken sin
taken from my hands
without the letting go.
No pardon or peace
within my reach
without the letting go.
I will seek
this mystery
of letting go.
The letting go.
I surrender.
I surrender
I’m letting go.
Letting go
for you.
Letting go is hard.
God help me.
ok.
first thoughts:
i get it, i GET it, I GET IT.
well done, my love.
i want to cover this song.
this is, by far, my very favorite song of yours.
Can you be my cheerleader? Can I stick you in my back pocket and take you with me wherever I go?
haha! YESSS!
No joy in the pain
by faith sustained
without the letting go
LOVE that line. This song builds and builds into beauty. Love it.
That’s a complicated sentence. I’m glad the message got across as I hoped it would…
I like it!
I think it could use just the tiniest bit more of reverb, but that’s more a mixing issue that can always be tweaked.
Overall, I love the synthesizers, I love the drum beat– I love that it’s syncopated, and there are a ton of varied cymbals used.
You sound happy. This doesn’t sound as vocally strained as some have. I hear nice little fifth harmonies that could be added which would be pretty powerful. I like the tone of the bass. Any other tone would be annoying, but this helps to add crescendo emphasis.
some of your individual piano notes catch my ear, and I think they contribute well to the syncopation and the number of different rhythms you have. The instrumentation is oh-so-nice!
The only part that is mildly startling is when you first sing “I surrender” because it’s dramatically higher than the rest of the song; there’s this part of me that wants to hear you sing it with a bit more gruffness. Sing wrong. Sing through that throat of yours.
As the song progresses with “I will surrender”, though, you get a bit less “formal” with your notes, and it’s really nice.
Kudos.
Very, very good.
Thanks! I’ve missed your input on my songs.
I’m glad to have them back up here again.
And, about that singing stuff… I honestly think it’s psychological. May sound crazy, but I was emotionally beat after recording those vocals. It was one take. The whole shot was one take. And I couldn’t do much more after that. But, maybe one day I’ll have the guts to really nail it like you’re asking.
I remember it from songwriting circle and still like! I hear Kari Jobe singing it. Possible, right? yeah I think so.
haha!
“No pardon or peace
within my reach
without the letting go.”
oh sweet friend…these lyrics…all the words in this song…grabbed my heart. and hearing you sing them, knowing you, your story…everything…ahhhh….tears. thats all i got right now.
beautiful, mandy.
beautiful.
i love you.
Thank you – love you too Tam
Well I was going to pull a lyric that really hit me until I realized the entire song really hit me. I’m not a musician so I can’t speak to beats, or tempos or missing steps
but I love the beauty of these words and the beauty of the melody as you have sung it. Letting go is so incredibly hard but so much joy and peace awaits us in the letting go. Thank you for sharing this. It’s beautiful!
Thank you makeda