Waiting For You

(Saturday morning about 5:28am)
Such odd characters we artists are...my mind has been so active lately that I haven't been sleeping much the past week or so. The difference this time is that it's not due to sadness, confusion or anything....just plain excitement and trying to sort through all the different things that seem to be now just flying at me from all directions (whew...this law of attraction thing is incredible but I've got to stop "asking" so it will slow down a bit! LOL)

Anyhow, I figured that I'd get up early this morning and go treat myself to an early morning Yoga class (I've been practicing Iyengar Yoga for about 6 years now). So, I thought I'd go to bed early last night to get some rest, try to let these thoughts settle a bit, enjoy my yoga class then I have a songwriting session scheduled this morning with a good friend that I'm really looking forward to.

But, going to sleep last night was not easy (which usually is...I may not sleep well or a lot but when I decide to close my eyes, I typically go right out....no matter when or where....drives my wife nuts! LOL) ...my mind was just so active and the Free Hugs song (All The Same by The Sick Puppies) has been literally stuck in my head for days...I haven't been able to understand why and I've been trying to clear it to "hear" another song based more around this larger concept that Mia and I have been discussing. Finally I fall to sleep...maybe around 12:30am....restless through the night, tossing and turning, odd dreams (ha! what else is new?)...and then abruptly wake, look at the clock to see 4:12am and oddly enough I "hear" parts of a song that another friend wrote playing in my head....only really hearing the chorus "Waiting for you" playing over and over. I thought, "that's odd..." and then kinda dozed in and out for another 45 min. Then, again I abruptly wake to this warm, rush feeling and notice I've got goosebumps all over (no...wasn't the wife being frisky...LOL) and that song in my head then the little voice saying, "Hey! Knucklehead! Yeah, you.....get yer ass up! I'm trying to tell you something here! Go down and listen to this demo...NOW!" "Ok," I say in the Scooby-Doo voice. :-)

Long story short (do I ever tell short stories?), one listen through and I'm welling up and I "hear" the connection....change these words to this, that line to this...if I use this here, that there....a guitar riff there, solo there....oh, wait....I hear a children's choir there....that'll take the out and build it more with the gtr crying happily...holy goosebumps, batman. I think I may have it!

working lyrics below....

VERSE:
I have spent my life, longing for you
Waiting for the time (that) I can hold you
And I have spent my life, dreaming of you
Waiting for the time, I can love you

CHORUS: (2x)
Waiting for you
Aching for you
Breaking for you

VERSE:
Soon will come a time, we will be together
And if I have my say, it will be forever
Oh....happiness will shine, filled with love and laughter
Then we will be fine, happy ever after

CHORUS: (2x)

OUT CHORUS: (children's choir in this build w gtr solo)
Oh, Oh, Oh....waiting for you
Oh, Oh, Oh....waiting for you
Oh, Oh, Oh....waiting for you
Oh, Oh, Oh....waiting for you
Oh, Oh, Oh....waiting for you

Thank you Ed. I've kept a copy of this in iTunes for years and years....now I know why. Folks...ya gotta be aware and listen to that voice. Somehow, it knows.