Ant Wakefield

DAY BY DAY - Acoustic Song Written Tuesday 25th of November, 2008.

How This Song Came About:

Songs come to me… usually in a preformed, and slightly unevolved way. The unconscious delivers it via the present moment.

In this case, i simply came up with the tune on the guitar, and started singing. Using my trusty digital stereo recorder, i set down the basic melody, singing along with the guitar. The words came out a jumble, like a sleepy murmurs from a half dream like state. I then go back and try to make sence of what’s coming out, much like trying to understand someone on a dodgy telephone connection.

The original lyrics were interesting… in the third verse after the chorus, i could hear what appeared to be ’striking down like lightning, past mumbai and to berlin, papa says the bad boys are back in town…’. This didn’t make much sense to me, so i changed the last part to ‘Holidays won’t be the same again.’ Two days later the Bombings happened in Mumbai, which makes me wonder… freaky.

Equipment:

i’m playing on my trusty Australian Maton Guitar, the EM525C Steel String Acoustic Cut-Away. Audio was recorded via a Rode NT2A Mic, interfaced into my Apple Macbook Pro via the beautiful Apogee Duet Firewire Audio interface. The video was recorded via the iSight camera built into the Macbook.

Lyrics

V1 : I don’t know where i’m going.

Just know where i’ve been.

Going to take this day by day.

v2: It’s been so long since i saw you

Don’t know how i got thru

Gonna take a bit more time.

CH: Because time… it breaks me

in two.

and time, it makes me

. . . . remember you.

V3: Striking down like lightning

Past Mumbai & to Berlin

Holidays won’t be the same

v4: On & On in need of love

Longing in the land above

Just can’t seem to find the words

Repeat CH:

Repeat V1:

End.